Collection of puzzles gathered with Geronimo the g pawn winning
Hi everyone,
In the last half year I have changed my daily puzzle habits. I do Puzzle streak on Lichess as training for concentration and patience improvement, and on blitztactics site I do speed puzzle solving for fun, trying to get a daily mix between serious (Puzzle streak) and entertainment (blitztactics). After doing these puzzles for some months I had bookmarked lots of them, including puzzles where the winning move was exposing your king by pushing the G pawn in front of your king.
I think this is interesting from a kind of chess psychology [1] point of view. Usually as a chess beginner we learn to be very careful about our king, and it will not be uncommon that you learn to not push pawns in front of your king and avoid weakening the king side when castling short, apart from a very modest "luft" with for example h2h3 or h7h6. When you evolve from beginner chess player to a more stronger player it makes sense to use rules of thumb but be able to evaluate each chess position with fresh eyes and not shy away from stereotype ideas and beliefs. Therefore it can be up to you to make unorthodox moves when the chess position demands such moves.
p.s. I plan to put these puzzles into a Lichess study later on, but that will take some time and effort. Stay tuned :)
[1] Many years ago I read the Krogius book about Chess and psychology. Krogius was a well-known chess trainer in the former USSR.
