Chess Tips
1. In a rook and pawn ending, place your rooks behind your own passed pawns and behind your opponent's passed pawns as well.
2. When ahead in material, seek exchanges to maximize your material advantage.
3. Two coordinated rooks are equal to a Queen.
4. In blocked positions, knights are preferable over bishops. Inversely, in open positions, bishops are better.
5. As much as possible, keep your pawns connected; isolated pawns easily turn into weaknesses.
6. Whoever controls the center, controls the wings.
7. In most cases, centralize your King in the endgame.
8. If the same position occurs 3 times,consequetively or not, the game is a draw.
9. The proper way to offer a draw is to make you move, offer the draw, and then punch your clock.
10. A knight at the edge of the board is a bad knight.