Puzzles & Games
epub |eng | | Author:Joel Benjamin

14.♘c4! This nice in-between move cuts out some of Black’s options, like 14.axb3 ♘d5 15.♘c4 ♕c6. Note how grandmasters don’t blitz off automatic recaptures! 14...♕b5?! The queen is clearly out ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-28 | Author:Scott Harris [Harris, Scott]

3) Passed Pawns Must Be Pushed. A passed pawn is a pawn with no other pawns in its way. In short, it’s a pawn that has a clear path to ...
( Category: Chess November 7,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-04-16 | Author:Nikki Katz [Katz, Nikki]

Clues: 1. It depends on which city you would like to visit. 2. Demographics play no part in this answer. Puzzle 12-6 Which word does not belong in this group: ...
( Category: Logic & Brain Teasers November 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-29 | Author:Cory Klein [Klein, Cory]

In this game, Chernin demonstrated the importance of exposing an opponent’s king when attacking it. Indeed, at move 20, he sacrificed his queen to open the g file and expose ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-02 | Author:Clive Ke [Ke, Clive]

Here black actually has the opposition, but white is about gain the opposition again next move by advancing his pawn, and making it black’s turn to move. 6. c5 Kc8 ...
( Category: Chess November 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-19 | Author:Tim Brennan & Anthea Carson [Brennan, Tim & Carson, Anthea]

( Category: Chess November 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-21 | Author:Tim Brennan & Anthea Carson [Brennan, Tim & Carson, Anthea]

21.Bxg4 and black cannot recapture because of 21…Qxg4 22.Rdg1 pinning the black queen to the king. From the game BrianWall (1909) – Silverkronan (1842), ICC 5 0, December 6, 2012 ...
( Category: Chess November 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-27 | Author:Yelizaveta Orlova [Orlova, Yelizaveta]

White moved the Knight. Is it attacking anything? No. The Pawn on c6 is protected by the Pawn and Queen. Was the Knight defending anything? Yes. It used to protect ...
( Category: Chess November 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Speedy Publishing [Publishing, Speedy]

( Category: Children's History November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-29 | Author:Kenneth C. Davis

Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt try to “pack” the Supreme Court? The New Deal and the NRA in particular were bitter medicine to conservative Wall Streeters and corporate leaders, most ...
( Category: Children's History November 3,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-09-02 | Author:Kathleen Kaska

QUIZ 63 “THE ADVENTURE OF THE MAZARIN STONE” Published in the Strand in October 1921 and in Hearst’s International in November 1921 “The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone” was the ...
( Category: Mysteries November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-18 | Author:Sylvain Galibert [Galibert, Sylvain]

Threaten small to take big Yeah, the corollary of the previous principle: people pay close attention to the big threats and to moves they don’t understand. If you are aiming ...
( Category: Chess November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-02 | Author:Cory Klein [Klein, Cory]

Example: Evgeny Sveshnikov VS Lev O Alburt, 1968 This game was played in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1968. Sveshnikov had white pieces and Alburt had black pieces. The game resulted in ...
( Category: Chess November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-13 | Author:Michael Phillips [Phillips, Michael]

8... d5 While is now ready to castle, Black should momentarily delay the castling and focus on breaking up White’s formidable Pawn center. 9.exd5 Nxd5 Black and White exchange Pawns ...
( Category: Chess November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-10 | Author:Cory Klein [Klein, Cory]

“Strategy” in chess corresponds to any short- or long-term plan a player comes up with to achieve a specific goal. This goal can be the capture of a piece or ...
( Category: Chess November 3,2020 )