Theme music begins. Fade in on The Stranger, who is walking along a city street at night. He stops at a window and peers inside, where many chess games are going on. He watches as the theme music continues. When the music ends, The Stranger op...
For the most part, the rules of chess are simple and easy to explain. The object of the game, to trap the enemy king, is understandable to a five year old. The movement of the pieces is straightforward and clearly defined. The players take...
In this article, we are going to look at positions where you are down to your last pawn, while your opponent still has a piece left. Facing a knight, bishop, rook, or even a queen, what are some of the positions where the lowly pawn can still lead...
Of course, you all know the story. It's practically American folklore. There at the San Mateo Chess Club one night, a blitz tournament was in progress. A long struggle took place in a game involving a Russian immigrant named Boris Hrinczechowitsch...
As all the chess.com members here surely know, any game that comes down to K+B vs K or K+N vs K is immediately declared "drawn due to insufficient material". With just those three pieces left on the board, a mating position cannot be created eve...
Andy Soltis' "Chess to Enjoy" column in the February, 1981 issue of "Chess Life" (yes, young'uns, he really has been writing the column for that long) opened with the provocative claim, "Immortality is hard to come by, but in case you're intereste...
