1.) A group of chess enthusiasts had checked into a hotel, and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as t...
Through the Eyes of a Patser By NM Steve Colding I went to a tournament in which a couple of my students were playing and they convinced me to play so that they could see some of my games. I sighed...
There was a chess problem that I always have my students try and solve. The problem is take one set of chess pieces and cover every square on the board. It must be done with only the pieces and no Pawns. ...
Chess.com's LIVE CHESS is reaching the end of its testing period and will soon be with us, so it's time to share some experiences gleaned during my wanderings on the Web. For the past five years I've been playing Internet ches...
There were once 2 older brothers that lived in a village. They were fond of themselves, and very greedy. They had a younger brother who was always kind and listened to them. One day, the king wanted a prince for a princess and was holding a questi...
Please just rate a 1,2,3,4, or 5 star on how much you like chess. But I also have a super-special-awesome and really interesting question of chess! If you had a queen left on your checker board, and the other side had a knight, a rook, and a ...
This is a story about a brave king that fights until end of the game (9th-21th). He will be defeated, not cause of his courageous play, just cause of his mistake! can you find that? ( this is a real match!!! )
I was on ICC for years. I don't think it helped my game too much. Too much speed chess or never enough time to play a real pondering game. Then people bail out, quit, disappear, fail to pay their fees etc. Going to arbitratio...
When you won a game,you should say: "Nice to meet you...I realised that i don't wanna play with you again cause we had a boring game..bye2" When you lose,you can say: "Nice to meet you...you...
I could not belive this is not checkmate. Try to see why.
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Many years ago, when it seems like I had more time, and there was no computer screen to distract me, my stamp collection didn't gather dust on the shelf. "Topical Collecting" -- collecting stamps picturing certain topics, r...
Here's just a little something cool for all you chess lovers out there! The shortest stalemate possible in this most intriguing game! Before you look, just give a guess how many moves that would be! And be surprised! =)
In the very early 1990's I landed myself a job as an electronic games demonstrator in a well known London store for a company that held a concession there at the time. Both a chess and electronic gadget addict, I was in for a mild...
Here, two young amateurs were playing in a tournament creating the shortest game ever recorded! The players, who's identities have been lost, were familiar with chess rules and had Elo ratings of 1600 and 1700. PLEASE READ THE MOVE L...
(This story was written for the U3A Nepean web site. U3A is the “University of the Third Age”. If you don't know what that is, you can learn about it here: http://www.u3anepean.org ) We've all heard the old saw that t...
Thirty years ago a picture hung in the Sydney Chess Centre. It showed two chess players—one looking bored, the other indecisive. He had picked up a pawn to make his first move but had taken so long that a spider web extended from...
Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was born on April 23, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up (1930-1938) in Libertyville and Evanston, Illinois, a town northwest of Chicago. He learned chess as a teenager and tried to teach his friend, W...
I'm been wondering if this type of chess does exist. I don't know. I don't even know how would you play a three level chess. It would be to difficult. At first, how would you move the pieces up & down? You would have to change thei...
