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The art of using bishops to promote pawns to the end.
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Peter Biyiasas, born Nov 19, 1950 in Greece, is a Canadian Grandmaster (1978) who later moved to the United States. He has won the Canadian championship twice (1972, 1975). In 1978 he won the World Open. In 1981 Bobby Fischer sta...
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Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-1924) was an English player of grandmaster strength, perhaps ranked number 2 in the world at one time. He learned the game at age 19 after learning of Morphy's chess exploits. In 1860, he joined the Ma...
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Note how the white bishops are raking the black king position.White sacrifices the queen with Qxh5 gxh5.Having forced open the diagonal leading to Black's king,White plays Bh7 checkmate.The bishop is protected by the knight on g5.
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Armand Blackmar (1826-1888) was a music professor, music publisher, and amateur chess player. He established a music house in New Orleans during the Civil War. He wrote Southern patriotic music such as the Dixie War Song (1861), the Be...
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Dr. Ludwig Erdmann Bledow (1795-1846) was a German professor of mathematics (PhD). He founded the first German chess association, Berliner Schachgesellschaft, in 1827. He was the first person to suggest an international chess tournament (in ...
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Perhaps the first master chess game played on a blimp occurred on the opening day of the 1932 Pasadena International Chess Congress (won by Alekhine). On the opening day in August, Isaac Kashdan and Arnold Dake played an exhibition game over...
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In 1950 Sir. T. Thomas was the first blind player to play in a chess Olympiad (Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia). Blind player R. Bonham formed the International Braille Association. The first World Blind Correspondence Championship began in 195...
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Buzecca, a Muslim, was the first blindfold player in Europe, playing two games blindfold in Florence in 1265. It took 518 years before three games were played blindfold, by Philidor in 1783. One newspaper wrote 'This exertion...
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A blockade is a situation when the opponent has a pawn that needs to be stopped. Usually it is a passed pawn and it will promote unless stopped. A easy way to stop a passed pawn is to put a piece in front of it. That way, it can't advance. The bes...
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