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Winning by moving backward! Redeployment of pieces (usually Knights and Bishops) have helped champions such as Capablanca, Fischer, and Karpov to win many games. Most recently it was noted there were backward moves in the first 5 games of the match between Kasparov and Deeper Blue. Reuter (a senior master from Texas) charts ten types of strategies: redeploy and then attack; maneuvering; defense and then attack; forced redeployment; redeployment in the heat of battle; the back rank lineup; long range planning; the rook lift; and unusual redeployments. How redeployment figures into openings, the middlegame, and the ending is also discussed. Computers and their abilities for coming up with backward moves is also detailed in 60 exercises which humans are urged to take

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