Chess tactics 56 BLACK TO PLAY
Funny chess stories
Funny chess stories? Since I have started answering chess related questions on Quora, I have tried covering a broad variety of chess topics. So far, my most upvoted answers have included some chess anecdotes from my own…
Chess study 16 – Oleg Pervakov study
Chess study 16 Oleg Pervakov study We have already found out that Yochanan Afek is highly respected author in the chess composing community (see his studies here and here). Apart from being a composer himself, he…
Chess tactics 55
Chess tactics 55 BLACK TO PLAY
Best chess beginner books
Best chess beginner books Everybody knows how confusing and difficult it is to learn something from the scratch. Chess, being the rich and complicated game it is, is by no means an exception. More experienced…
The Legal Trap
INTRODUCTION On the road toward chess mastery, a chess player acquires knowledge about numerous attacking mechanism and mating patterns. For instance, every strong player is familiar with the typical sacrifice of the bishop on h7,…
Chess tactics 54
Chess tactics 54 BLACK TO PLAY
Funny chess problems
Funny chess problems? One of the greatest young chess talents in the World, 12-year-old International Master Nihal Sarin recently visited the quarters of the Chessbase in Hamburg, Germany. In the article report following that visit, there…
Chess tactics 53
Chess tactics 53 WHITE TO PLAY
Fast checkmates
Introduction We human tend to get obsessed with the superlatives in any field of human activity. We are constantly trying to determine who is the biggest, the strongest, the most intelligent, the greatest ever, etc…..
Chess study 15 – Yochanan Afek study 2
Chess study 15 Yochanan Afek study 2 Pawn endgames are easy, they said? How does White convert his advantage here (the solution is far from obvious) . White to play and win
Chess tactics 52
Chess tactics 52 WHITE TO PLAY