When annotating games I sometimes use some chess annotation symbols. The table below gives an overview of these symbols. These symbols are placed at the end of a move and can be distinguished in symbols to indicate the move itself, to indicate the quality of the move or to indicate the position after the move.
Deflection is a tactic that forces a piece of your opponent to leave the square, row or file where it has to remain, because it is needed there to defend something. This chess term is rather similar to luring, but in luring a piece has to be positioned at the right square to enable an [...]
Most of the time it is an advantage that it is your turn to move, but sometimes it is a very serious disadvantage. In chess this is known as Zugzwang.
This word Zugzwang originates from the German and means something like “forced to move”. It is your move and in chess you have to move since [...]
The way to mastership from Edward Lasker is a free downloadable ebook. It has been digitized by Project Gutenberg and can be downloaded here.
The reason why many people hesitate to learn the game and to teach it to their children is that Chess has been misrepresented as a game which is very difficult to master. [...]
In the wikibook Elements of chess strategy you can find an explanation of the most important ideas of chess strategy:
Development
Mobility
The center
The positions of the kings
Weak and strong squares
Pawn structure
Queenside pawn majority
Open lines
Minor pieces
We have seen most of these positional ideas before on Chess Teaching, but the mentioned Wikibook describes them in a rather different [...]