[chessmind-announce] New post at The Chess Mind

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Hello,
	There is a new post on The Chess Mind.  You can read it at:

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1182975152.shtml

It begins:

	When I’ve talked about our game with non-chess
	players, sometimes they’ll ask me what formations
	are best. For those of us who know the game, this
	may sound like a naïve question – there is no
	set formation we can use, because it depends on
	what our opponent does. Yet there may be more to it
	than this quick dismissal might suggest. For
	beginners, there’s that old standby, what we
	might call the Scholar’s Mate Attack, going for
	mate on f7. Moving up a few notches in
	sophistication, White can often make 20 moves or
	more mindlessly against the Sicilian Dragon,...