Power of Exchange - Mikhalchishin "Marble Chess Sets" slender pieces in contrasting black

slender pieces in contrasting black and medium woods

Knight base: 1"

King base: 1 5/16"

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gain crucial time and stand a good chance to get an advantage WITHOUT having studied large quantities of stuffy theory

Power of Exchange - Mikhalchishin "Marble Chess Sets" slender pieces in contrasting blackThe correct technique of exchanging is the most important ability of Grandmasters! Which pieces to swap and which pieces to keep, whether to recapture with a piece or with a pawn, these are questions which every player of every level has to answer many times during a single game. And the greatest difference between GMs and amateurs is not in opening knowledge or in calculation power, but in this simple technique. The great Botvinnik even said that