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epub |eng | | Author:Charles Hertan

An exciting master finish; both sides play for mate! White threatens a standard check moves bang! Q+R mate: 1.Rb8+ Kg7 2.Qh8#, but it’s Black’s turn! Using the mating power of ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-22 | Author:Emmanuel Neiman & Emmanuel Neiman

Analysis diagram 4.a6!! is the subtle point that had to be seen when White played his first move. 4…Kd6 5.b6 Kc6 6.bxa7 and the black king is unable to stop ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Trevor Leggett

* * * * * * * * We go back to the original game, with your promoted Rook checking his King (diagram). We have seen that he cannot interpose ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Hans Ree

Norman van Lennep At long last, in January of 1893,the first issue of the Tijdschrift van den Nederlandschen Schaakbond (Magazine of the Dutch Chess Federation) appeared, the magazine that, under ...
( Category: Humor & Entertainment November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Mike Henebry [Henebry, Mike]

OBJECTIVITY You must possess objectivity. If you over-estimate or under-estimate how well you are doing in a position, your subsequent play will be inaccurate. Often, a game is lost by ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 1,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-02-21 | Author:Herman Grooten

White has a gigantic space advantage, but in a position like this, with quite a lot of pawns, it is hard for the bishops to find employment. The bishop on ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Charles Hertan

Here’s the strongest bishop pin: an absolute pin of the queen! 1…Bd4! Like being caught by zombies in a horror movie, the white Q is glued to the K ’s ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 1,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:Henry A. Davidson [Davidson, Henry A.]

Inspection of this table reveals several interesting items. First, notice the sizes of the board. Without exception they represent enlargements. This indeed has been the trend in chess—toward more complex ...
( Category: Humor & Entertainment November 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Maurice Ashley

I took a break from coaching in 1997 to pursue my lifelong goal of becoming an international grandmaster. With the generous financial assistance of Mr. Rose, who was grateful I ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 1,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Bruce Alberston [Alberston, Bruce]

1.d4 2.d5 3.d6 4.d7 5.d8/Q# But one of my students did manage to bungle it, and after the first move 1.d3 I should have became suspicious: 2.d4 3.d5 4.d6 5.d7 ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 1,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard James

17. Chess and Brainstorming Brainstorming is probably not something for beginners, but can be used as a teaching technique with, for instance, a small group of more advanced students. Give ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Bruce Pandolfini [Pandolfini, Bruce]

1.Raxb7+ White gains a pawn and keeps the move. 1...Rxb7 Black must take a rook to avoid losing one. 2.Rxb7+ White takes back, also with check, with his rook commandingly ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 1,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Gary Lane

37 xg7+ 1-0 Though few, if any, can play like Tal, it is possible to look at such games and learn the tricks of the trade. In the next game ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Hikaru Nakamura [Nakamura, Hikaru; Harper, Bruce]

15...R×f2! An obvious but instructive sacrifice, designed to seize the initiative and expose White’s king to attack. In one sense, this is a poor example for this book, because the ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games November 1,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:John Healy

Black has achieved the main aims of opening play – to mobilise the army, castle the king into safety and keep control over the centre of the board, where the ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 24,2017 )

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