Chess middlegames are hard to codify. When I was six years old I could’ve rattled off some rules for the opening: control the center, develop your pieces, castle early. But if I had the misfortune to play someone who also could play a reasonable opening, we ended up in a middlegame where there were no more rules, only choices. One strategy has begun to hit me over the head more often when I find myself with choices: find your knight a good square.

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