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A windmill is a tactic where a series of checks is made repeating the position, but unlike a perpetual check (which leads to a draw) with each repetition of the position a material or positional advantage is obtained. for example: &...
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The term Wing gambit usually refers to when white plays an early b2 to b4 deflecting a black pawn. There are many wing gambits. The first one is the Evan's Gambit, popularized by William Davie Evans. In the 1800's everybody used it and there were ...
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William Winter (1898-1955) was an International Master (1950). He was a nephew of Sir James Barrie who wrote Peter Pan and two-time British champion (1935 and 1936). He had been an active Communist Party organizer and was once sentence...
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A deprecatory term for an amateur whose play is simplistic and unimaginative--i.e., one who is merely pushing the wood pieces around the chess board. In general, a woodpusher connotes someone who grasps the rules but has yet to grasp a meaningful ...
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