I give this to players to show where the weak square are. White's F2 and for Black is F7. It shows how they are going to be mated.. .. .. I looked at losses by lower rated players and they fall victim to similar mates .. .. .. READ i...
October 26, 2025 I WROTE THIS FOR BEGINNING CHESS PLAYERS I give this to players to show where the weak square are. White's F2 and for Black is F7. It shows how they are going to be mated.. .. .. I looked at losses by lower ra...
A Dark and Stormy Night! © Rich Colorado It's a dark, gloomy,...
George Koltanowski, the greatest showman and promoter that chess has ever known. Koltanowski will be best remembered as an exhibitor, writer, promoter and showman. Possessed with an incredibly powerful memory. Koltanowski would often give exhibiti...
RichColorado Updated: July 27, 2025, 7:41 AM | 4 It is a day in May of 1963 and I'm only twenty three years old. I arrive at San Quentin prison at 9:30 a.m. It takes thirty minutes for me to be admitted. My tie,...
Now Don Quixote. I read it in Spanish when I lived in El Salvador. I was seven years old interned in a Catholic school. I picked the book. It was not a required read. My mom would sit while I read the book outloud and both would start laughin...
CHESS IS . . . "If drink is the curse of the working classes and work is the curse of the drinking classes then chess is the curse of the thinking classes." :-) A game is always won through a blunder, a mistake . . . When you see a good move, ...
A wish for Christmas . . .
Updated Wednesday 2/20/2020 e4 e5 2. d3 Bc5 3. Qd2 Nf6 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Nh4 Ng4 6. Nf5 Bxf2+ 7. Ke2 Nd4+ 8. Kd1 Nxf5 9. exf5 d6 10. d4 Bxd4 11. Na3 Ne3+ 12. Ke2 O-O 13. Qd3 Bxf5 14. Qb3 Bg4+ 15. Kd3 Nd1 16. Be2 Nf2+ 17. Kd2 Nxh1 18. Bxg4 Qg5+...
A Dark and Stormy Night! by Denverhigh Creative Fiction It's a dark, gloomy, stormy night in October. I am alone at home. I walk very deliberately to the kitchen and pull two large Forschner German stainless steel knives out of ...
How I learned to play blindfold CHESS ...
Here are the top 10 classic chess books that every fan should know. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer How to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman My System by Aron Nimzowitsch Zurich International Chess Tournament,...
I was told I was an ASSASSIN in chess . . . An attacker not positional player . . . Quite true since I don't have the patience for slow play . . . Assassins are all about controlled aggression. They tend to play sharp openings (especially 1.e4 as...
All in all they are all the same . . .
Is your Avatar photo just the boring pawn, then just copy this one and add a little class to your Avatar . . . You are welcomed to copy it . . . . DENVER
This is my favorite opening! https://www.chess.com/blog/fenrissaga/max-lange-attack DENVER
It seems like I'm looking my abilities to see moves until my opponent response to my move. I still teach beginning players at the library every week.. . That isn't a problem to me . . . I believe I should start thinking outside of the box when pl...
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/how-to-write-a-chess-story That's the link , click on it. DENVER
When I was buying my first computer, a man wearing whatd looked like a farmers outfit. It looked like he had been working in the garden. He was wearing a dirty tan hat. He was also looking at the same computer I was looking at. ...
Hey. I have a card chess game and it makes chess a game of chance. It was invented by a chess player in Santa Rosa, Ca. 37 years ago. It has a current pattent. I have played it with my grandchildren and two of my grown sons and it is actually a f...
Today I dropped in on my son at his home, with a 100 piece puzzle. It was of a white bunny, My grandaughter and grandson were there and I didn't take the cover of the puzzle in with me, so they could not see what it would be. Soon we were done wi...
Hey. My birthday WAS Dec 14th, 2025 I'M NOW 88 &nb...
Here is a rundown of some of the movies that have chess. Of course I have my own favorite choices and the worst one. December 2020 The Queens Gambit: A seven episode Netflix movie. A movie about a young girls adventure in Chess from a rook...
. . . . . . . then she brought the chess-board and she played with him . . . . Sharrkan instead of looking at her moves, kept gazing at her fair mouth, and puting a Knight in place of Elephant, and Elephant in place of a Knight. She laughed an...
