Middlegame alertness of younger players

General advice on how to deal with the middle game should provide a valuable guide particularly to younger players who are prone to launch premature, poorly-planned and uncoordinated attacks that are, almost invariably, doomed to failure. Still, more than anything else, the middlegame rewards action over reaction. This is supposed to be the attacking phase of the game in which the fight for the initiative is paramount. The middlegame requires alertness in general and alertness to patterns in particular. These are general rules that anyone can learn with practice; the more you play, the better you become at recognising the patterns and applying the solutions. PLAY MORE LEARN MORE.