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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Evaluation]] * [[Game Phases]] * Middlegame'''
[[FILE:SamuelBakStudyforMiddleGame.jpg|border|right|thumb|[[Arts#:Category:Samuel Bak|Samuel Bak]] - Study for Middle Game, 1990 <ref>[https://valsur.livejournal.com/129416.html Шахматы в искусстве (22 часть) BAK Samuel] by Valerij Surkov</ref> ]]
The '''Middlegame''' is the game phase which happens after the [[Opening|opening]], where the [[Chess Game|game of chess]] literally starts after developing most [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_piece#Minor_piece minor pieces] and to prepare or already achieve [[Castling|castling]]. Quite often due to (double) pushes of the center [[Pawn|pawns]], the basic [[Pawn Structure|pawn structure]] is often already determined during the first moves, sometimes with center [[Pawn Rams (Bitboards)|rams]] involved, already defining which [[Bishop|bishop]] is good or [[Bad Bishop|bad]].
* [[Alex van Tiggelen]] ('''1991'''). ''Neural Networks as a Guide to Optimization - The Chess Middle Game Explored''. [[ICGA Journal#14_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3]]
* [[Miroslav Kubat]], [[Jan Žižka]] ('''2000'''). ''[https://www.muni.cz/research/publications/351333 Learning Middle Game Patterns in Chess: A Case Study]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture_Notes_in_Computer_Science Lecture Notes in Computer Science], Vol. 1821, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
=Forum Posts=
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70438 Middlegame positional test-suite] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], April 07, 2019 » [[Test-Positions]]
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/znU1a7aZ2XI/yJDFtOQnAwAJ mg vs eg eval] by [[Joost VandeVondele]], [[Computer Chess Forums|FishCooking]], October 06, 2019 » [[Endgame]], [[Stockfish]]
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