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Shred the Center

Baltic Defense: capturing toward the center.

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The idea

  1. When you have a choice of captures, take with the piece or pawn that moves toward the center.
  2. A pawn that recaptures toward the middle adds another fighter for d4, d5, e4 and e5.
  3. Watch for it in every exchange in the video, then pause before each capture and guess which one is coming.