Concept
Prophylaxis
You might say: preventive play, prevention
Strategic prevention: foresee the opponent's useful resources and restrict them before they become threats, while improving your own position.
- What it does
- Cuts counterplay by taking away freeing breaks, good squares, favorable exchanges, space, or active piece routes.
- Ask
- What would the opponent improve or free next, and can I prevent it without giving up my own progress?
- Typical
- Elementary prevention; prevention of tactical threats; prevention of strategic threats.
- Trouble
- Allowing a freeing pawn move, an active piece route, a favorable exchange, or too much space when it could have been restricted.
Connections
- Controls: Initiative
- Lowers: King safety
Sources
- Efstratios Grivas, Strategic prevention, Strategic Prevention
He used to say: 'Neither attack, nor defence, is the essence of positional play, but prophylaxis'.
- Efstratios Grivas, Strategic prevention, Strategic Prevention
Foreseeing and preventing strategic threats.
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