The King in the center in 60 minutes – Adrian Mikhalchishin

Trainers recommend to beginners to be careful with their own king and to castle as soon as possible. But at higher levels grandmasters can sense the danger of having the king in the centre much more precisely and in many cases the king in the centre is safe, which allows them to conduct fast flank attacks or to create a powerful centre. A big fan of such a strategy was Mikhail Botvinnik – he called it ‘the delayed castling strategy’.