Coordination of pieces

   The coordination of pieces is a basic concept of chess. Since you start playing, someone is insisting that your pieces must be coordinated, and even the most powerfull piece can not play alone,  the action of each piece should be within an overall plan.

    This idea so simple and easy that is, in practice, a little more difficult to implement, and this is one of the elements that sets players on different levels, being able to play all your pieces together towards a common goal is something you work seriously if you want to improve in the chess game.

   It's very typical the error to start playing  searching very specific and fast targets,  reaching a moment in which you realize that you have your pieces totally misplaced and unable to work together.

   Viewing this concept from the point of view of the company, the first ideas that come are on the coordination of the different people who work in a department, and going to a higher level, in the work of various departments to get a company target, in project management, marketing communications with sales forces... 

   This is a concept that we can easily relate to the work of any manager in a company, and whose domain leads professionals to an improvement in the performance of their work.

To ilustar this concept I have chosen two precious games played in  nineteenth century, one of them played by Napoleon Bonaparte

 

1. Zukertot vs NN 1-02. Napoleón I vs General Beltrand 1-0 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 abcdefgh

Game played in 1877 in Leipzig. From the move 9, the white player takes the black king to his grave exploiting the game of almost all pieces 1. e4 e5 2. f4 d6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Bg4 6. d3 Be7 7. O-O Nh5 8. fxe5 Nxe5 9. Nxe5!! With this great play begins major offensive which will participate almost every piece 9...  Bxd1 the black does not see what he comes up and he is blinded by material gain 10. Bxf7+ Kf8 forced move, unique 11. Bxh5+ Bf6 here believes that the attack is over, but he is wrong 12. Rxf6+!! gxf6 13. Bh6+ a missing piece for participating 13...  Ke7 14. Nd5+ the other piece that was not involved until this move 14...  Ke6 15. Bf7+ Kxe5 16. c3 and in this position the black is lost, since there is no way to avoid the checkmate with the bishop moving to f4. If you look almost all black moves have been forced, thanks to the coordinated game of nearly all the white pieces. The Queen sacrifice was in the plan 1-0