Secrets of a Successful Defence

Every now and then, we ordinary players, face positions in which we need to defend and only defend effectively. In that kind of positions, no counter attack or active play would get us out of trouble and that’s why it’s so important to know the principles of successful defense in chess. You must learn and discover the secrets of successful defense and by secrets its means all of these defensive techniques that may sound ineffective and counter-intuitive to the average player. Then you will understand and can explain why backwards moves may sometimes be useful and how you can find the most precise moves to defend your inferior positions of some strong tournaments successfully. For this, you have to select very instructive examples and make it your skill and recall it when facing similar positions in your chess online tournment career and others. You should study many games of the great positional player, Karpov, who managed to defend his many positions and exploit his opponents' desires to attack when all their attacking chances were suddenly eliminated.