Benko
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Queenside attack, bishop outpost to block queenside files, free piece
- knight entry, queenside defense, queen blunder
- Rook on e file, target weak squares, prevent checks
- Bishop exchange and queen-knight mate on h7, knight move to deflect rooks
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Benoni
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Old Benoni, impulsive moves, no calculations
- center play, entering enemy camp alone, blundering queen, piece activity
- Santanu_Borah (1682) - chess-Army_KCI (1817)
- Santanu_Borah - g67081
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Budapest defense
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Budapest defense, piece mobility and defense, against passed pawns
- Trapping piece missed, wrong queen exchange, controlling open file, passed pawn
- understanding piece activity and coordination, exploiting opponent's inability
- Santanu_Borah (1695) - Michi3KF (1705)
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Caro-kann
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Advanced variation, losing tactical blows
- Tedious defense against advanced passed pawn, hanging piece
- Caro Kann: Higher rated, no mistake
- Classical: neglected king safety
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Catalan
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Misplaced rook, fork, passed pawn
- Not seeing positional continuation with multiple square possibilities
- Qa4+ line, play Bd7, c5, capture Bxb2, missing double attack, better knight move
- In Bg2 line, start with Bb4+, whole game shifts towards queenside, knight attack
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Chess960
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Release the queen and bishop, defend weak squares around the king
- Winning by fork
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Chessdojo Sicilian Themes
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Furman - Pruess
- Dueling pawn majority
- Exchange sacrifice on c3
- The advance b4-b5 and d5 pawn break
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Chigorin defense
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Chessyqueeny - dm66pl
- Chessyqueeny - bkardes
- ahmad0077 (1966) - Santanu_Borah (1954)
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Colle system
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Davidjb - Santanu_Borah
- avneets13 - Santanu_Borah
- Win by capturing hanging piece
- Losing series of exchange, Bxh7 sacrifice
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Crazyhouse
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Play d4-Nf3-Bc4, solid structure without exchange in opening
- Ruy lopez exchange, keep f8 bishop, mating attack with pawn, rook and minor piec
- TalMikhai (1290?) - Santanu_Borah (1261?)
- Santanu_Borah (1351?) - MaratAbay (1697)
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Drill 4
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Kangaroo Defense, weak squares, free pawn, knight dominance
- Semi-slav, flank pawn attack, center control
- Pawn endgame, opposition
- Queen for rook and knight imbalance
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Drills
1 • Santanu_Borah •- Bishop endgame 1
- Bishop endgame 2
- Bishop endgame 3
- Bishop endgame 4
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