Foxy 185-186: How to Evaluate Positions & Create Plans - 2 Videos

A Step-by-Step Guide: How to Assess Any Position & Create a Plan, Part 1 and 2 (Video)

The development of middlegame skills is an important part of the chess improvement process. If you can look at a position, any position, and assess it correctly, the chances are you will find a good move or plan and be able to advance towards victory. Soon this all-new Foxy video, this is exactly what IM and FIDE Senior Trainer Andrew Martin will try to help you to achieve.

A wide range of middlegame topics is covered, using games from the present day, many from the present year. You are invited in all cases to find a plan and assess the position at critical moments during these games. This is a video where, if you put in the work, you will get a lot out of it. Or take a more relaxed approach and just enjoy a fine selection of master games, easily and masterfully explained.

Run time: 2 hours 53 minutes

Part 1:

• Piece Activation
• King Safety
• Pawn Structures-Hanging Pawns, Blockaged Pawns Hanging Pawns
• Play against and Defend against Pawn Weaknesses
• Tactics: Look for Threats

Run time: 2 hours 48 minutes

Part 2:

• Opposite side Castling
• Sacrificing to open enemy King
• Pawn Storming
• Clashing Plans
• Short and Long Turn Planning
• When to stop your opponents counter play before proceeding with your plan
• Open Files looking for Targets and counter play
• Benefits of Space - Better choices of plans, better piece placement, and better opportunity to launch tactics