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When a Bishop and opposing Knight (or vice versa) are exactly three squares apart, they "box each other out" (four squares are hit by both pieces).
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In a normal chess game, having a bishop pinned to your rook on your own back rank spells doom. In this case, I somehow managed to maintain the game for 20 moves without the help of my rook or bishop.
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Wow, I just played a series of 5 blitz games against the same opponent, who was, when we started, 2 rating points better than I was. Our time control was 4/4 for all games, and after winning the first 4, I was reluctant to take my opponent's qui... | Read More
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Lately I've been biting off more than I can chew as far as my online correspondence games are concerned. I had as many as 55 games going at once, and it bothered me logging off with a bunch of games marked "My Move". I just resigned a game whi... | Read More
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Cubefactor and I have known each other for about 13 years, and chess has been a major part of our friendship for much of it. We have attended two chess camps together, and led our team (Jefferson HS, WI) to a conference title and second place fini... | Read More
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So I just had an opponent play the following against me:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 a6
Alright, that's fine. There are all sorts of lines which people like and I'm not writing to question 2. ... a6. My issue came when I looked in the game explore... | Read More
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I've been playing the Pirc Defense for some time now, and have played it in two of my last four rated games in the past three days. When I played it on Saturday (3/19/2011), it was clear that my Pirc was rusty, as sloppy play left me fighting to... | Read More