The Immortal Draw, of 1922
Alexander Alekhine (I'm sure most of you know him) is the 4th world chess champion. He is especially known for his brilliant combinations, excellent positional play and great Endgame technique. &n...
Alexander Alekhine (I'm sure most of you know him) is the 4th world chess champion. He is especially known for his brilliant combinations, excellent positional play and great Endgame technique. &n...
Overloading is when a piece is assigned to protect two or more other pieces, squares or threats at the same time. In situations like this opportunities often arise to benefit from the overloading by distracting the piece from one or several of its...
Paul Morphy "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess," was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion. He was also one of the first...
The Immortal Game was a chess game played on June 21, 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. The very bold sacrifices made by Anderssen to finally secure victory have made it one of the most famous che...
The Plachutta is a device found in chess problems. A piece sacrifices itself on a square where it could be captured by one of two similarly-moving pieces for example, a bishop and a queen moving along a diagonal, or two rooks moving along a differ...