First of all, let me thank you my dear readers for your positive response for my "Typical patterns everyone should know" articles. It shows that you want me to continue our discussion of this important subject. Today's installment is devoted to '...
This is a continuation of our discussion about typical patterns you can reuse in your games. The recipe for today's pattern is: 1) Fianchettoed Bb2 (Bb7 for Black) pointing at the opponent's King 2) Ne5 (Ne4) that joins the attack eventually 3)...
Want to give yourself X-ray vision at the chessboard? Well, as with achieving any worthwhile result, you may expect to have much work to do – but the task is certainly far from impossible. This seems to be the common problem when learning che...
Let me present to you one of my favorite games played by WGM Natalia Pogonina against FM Dmitry Biryukov. Natalia (currently #14 female player in the world rated 2501 FIDE) delivered an unexpected attack on the kingside followed by a few remarkab...
Whenever I present a beautiful game in my article, I inevitably see a comment that looks like this: “Wow! Such a beautiful game! I wouldn’t find this fantastic combo in a million years”. From my teaching experience I know that sometimes chess pla...
Today you have the chance to play like Moscow Open-2009 winner WGM Natalia Pogonina. In the last round of the tournament she crushed her opponent, IM Marina Romanko, with a few nice tactical blows - can you also spot them? Replay the annota...
What do you think about trade of the Ns in the following positions? STOP: The Article begins below. I'd like to show a very unusual variation of the very important tactical theme - Intermediate Move (also called In-between M...
The US Chess Championship is the premier American event of the year. It is one of the longest running tournaments in the World ( dates back to 1845). Since all of the best US players participated in the US Championships, you can find many true g...
This is one of my most recent games in which I foresaw a great tactical continuation. Let's see if you can find it. (Sorry if I am bragging) Please look at the move list!! It is in the wrong order, first is the game, then the less simplified puzzl...
As soon as we learn the rules of chess, we realize that a Queen is the most powerful piece on the board. We treasure her and I noticed that many beginners prefer to get checkmated rather than give up a Queen. As a result, the games where one of...
Philidor's mate will checkmate in four moves. Can you find checkmate in three?
You asked for more...I have posted more;).I hope you will have fun.(The links to my previous puzzle sets:http://www.chess.com/article/view/some-tactical-puzzles-for-you , http://www.chess.com/article/view/more-puzzles-for-you).If you want more jus...
Here it is: I'll post the solution in a few days.
White to move. How many moves to mate?
Some ways to punish your opponent when his king hasn't castled.
This game was played by the then current Russian World Champion, Boris Spassky and challenger, American Robert Fischer. This game caused a stir because Fischer had never played 1. c4 before in a serious match. He is well-known for saying 1. e4 is ...
This the game Kasparov on where he beat the supercomputer "Deep Blue".. See how Kasparov use non-theoretical moves to avoid early confrontations, to positional advantages.
Picture yourself in a battle. You have a huge army of footmen and it is your advantage. But would you like it when you own soldiers are crowded around you, preventing you from moving? That's what a bad bishop is like. A bad bishop is a bishop trap...
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