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Preventing counterplay is hard to do

Good overview of the concept, showing that stopping counterplay isn't that simple.

Good overview of the concept, showing that stopping counterplay isn't that simple.

The pinnacle of this was Nimzovich.
The move 25...h6 demonstrates white has no moves.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1102400

The pinnacle of this was Nimzovich. The move 25...h6 demonstrates white has no moves. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1102400

Love this. Even when it's fully possible to know that there's no good response, it probably took up too much of my time to figure it out.

The advice of "Look at all checks captures and threats" always bugged me because "checks and captures" can be examined quickly, but "threats" is such a broad category.

Love this. Even when it's fully possible to *know* that there's no good response, it probably took up too much of my time to figure it out. The advice of "Look at all checks captures and threats" always bugged me because "checks and captures" can be examined quickly, but "threats" is such a broad category.