answer:I’m not an avid chess player myself, but I do know the game and play it occasionally. I would recommend that you not devote a lot of playing time to a particular strategy to the exclusion of all others; you have to play “the game that’s in front of you”. That advice doesn’t apply only to chess, by the way. As a chess player, you have a general idea of the relative rankings of the various pieces on the board. Most pieces don’t become dramatically “more valuable” as the game goes on, but pawns are the notable exception to that general rule. So late in the game your strategy may have to change to reflect the much higher value that an opponent’s sixth rank pawn has, and sacrifice accordingly. By the same token, you have to realize that your own pawns that have advanced to the fifth and sixth rank are more valuable than they were at the second rank, and not give them up easily – they must be strongly defended at that point.