Game of the Week LI- Kollars,Dmitrij (2622) - Safarli,Eltaj (2579)

1) In the opening, fight for the center. Although hypermodernists described the possibility of doing this with pieces only, it is better to combine both pawns and pieces in most cases.

2) Don't trade your most active pieces without any need if you don't gain another advantage from doing this. The game Fischer,R - Petrosian,T (1-0) is a good example of this.

3) Don't play on the side where you are weaker unless necessary.

4) Symmetrical positions can hide a lot of possibilities and troubles for both players.
The Game of the Week is - Kollars vs. Safarli

This is the continuation of the Game of the Week series. All the previous weeks could be found here. Thank you for reading! If you find any noteworthy games that you think should appear on Game of the Week, please send me a message on lichess.org.Please note that Game of the Week will cover games played from Saturday to Saturday of each week, and any games played on Sunday will go to the next week. See you next Sunday!
Contributors: Grandmaster Ulvi Bajarani Edited by Della Almind