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    • Back-rank knockout

      This game I played on playchess.com (sorry for not using Live Chess) involved a powerful knockout that sealed Black's fate after he missed a knockout of his own. | Read More

    • Cross-pin

      In this game, my opponent's blunder was allowing a cross-pin. | Read More

    • Model mate

      I achieved this position against the hardest level of Chess Titans as White: I believe it is a model mate because all of my pieces contribute, that for each of the king's possible escape squares, there is exactly one reason the king cannot move ... | Read More

    • Mating net

      Even in a boring endgame, still be sure not to walk into mating nets! | Read More

    • The ultimate blunder?

      I composed this position, with White to move. White has a huge variety of mates in one, and some more in a few more moves. There are two worst-possible moves, which force Black to mate White in three. | Read More

    • An exchange up in an endgame

      Being up an exchange is not easy nevertheless in the endgame. The trick here was to advance my pawn as far as possible, and prove that the diagonal was too short for White's bishop to defend the queening square. | Read More

    • Brilliant Sacrifice

      I wonder how many non-titled players would've seen this combination. My best one ever. | Read More

    • The power of 2 rooks over a queen

      In this game, even though Black had more pawns than me, my two rooks proved too powerful. | Read More

    • When 2 is better than 3

      Here, I won a lot of material. The neat thing is that taking an exchange proved to be better than simply a free knight (2 points instead of 3). | Read More

    • Be careful about dropping a piece

      In the Sicilian, often the d4-knight is attacked by the bishop on g7 potentially. Be careful about potential zwischenzugs that can cause you to lose a piece.   | Read More