If you have an outside passed pawn in the ending, you want your Rook behind it, and your opponent’s Rook blocking it. This allows you to move your Rook up and down the file to gain or lose temps and the enemy can’t move his Rook else your pawn adv...
Here is a composition by chekhover from 1947. It seems the Black Rook will just enter White’s position and start capturing pawns. Yet White has a fortress like resource that Black could actually lose if he gets to clever and outwi...
The positioning of the counters on the pitch affects the result and is essential for managing to win the match. The player\coach must use all his or her strategic capacity and tactical knowledge to put out a well-balanced line-up. The player expre...
Since tactics are the most entertaining and important part of chess, it comes as no surprise that there have been many books written about them. This site—which amounts to another book, and not a short one—thus requires a few words of justificatio...
