A Piece with Few Escape Squares is a piece with limited mobility and potential vulnerability due to a lack of safe squares for movement. It is a signal of tactical possibilities. In the diagram above, White noticed the h5-Knight's problematic condition and found the winning move: 1.g4, trapping it.
Ideas for when your opponent has a Piece with Few Escape Squares: (1) Look for tactics that exploit its lack of mobility, (2) Enclose the piece further, (3) Prevent freeing sacrifices. Ideas for when you have a Piece with Few Escape Squares: (1) Trade pieces to relieve the bind on your restricted piece, (2) Consider sacrificing material, such as a pawn, to create an escape route for your piece, (3) Create counterplay elsewhere on the board.
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