Intermediate Chess Player Strategies
Intermediate chess players are familiar with the basic chess strategies of beginners, and have advanced to a higher level of chess mastery.
Intermediate players tend to have a good understanding of many of the important chess strategies:
- Opening strategies (develop early, castle early, etc.)
- Middlegame strategy (material, space, time, mobility)
Tactics are fairly well understood by intermediate players. Tactics at this level tends to resolve around the win of a piece rather than a lonely pawn. The basic ideas of tactics include:
Intermediate players still need additional work on advanced tactics such as:
- Interference
- Diversion
- Pawn promotion combinations (Queening tactics)
- Smothered pieces
- Trapped pieces
- Simplification combinations
- Advanced combinations
- Pawn winning combinations
Attacking is an area that intermediate players are usually quite strong. They are not so good on defensive, but they know how to attack! Attacking strategies include:
- Prevent castling
- Castle opposite sides
- Pawn storm
- Sacrifices
- Piece storm
- Hovering Queen
Areas where intermediate players still tend to be weaker than advanced chess players include:
- Endgame strategies
- Positional chess strategies
- Defensive strategies
- Opening repertoire
Related Chess Tactics
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