When you're losing
A puzzle from a match that I played, try to solve it! Black to play and gain material
puzzle VII
Black to move and draw
wild mate in 6
really hard
Puzzle VI
I hope you all enjoy this Puzzle i had to use help to find the solution
Simplify to Victory!
Few of us realize that one of the best weapons against an attack is to play for exchange of pieces. An attack flourishes on complications, on the efforts of powerfully posted pieces aimed at cramped positions. Every time you simplify, you remove a...
Rook sac
Enjoy!
The important stuff
It has come to my attention that there are many important things in chess that nobody talks about. The true masters of chess don't say anything. We all know the opening principles and names to various tatics, but what ...
Attacking w/o the Queen
It always seems that whenever we lose our queen, our means to attack shut down, and none will succeed. But the truth is, some of the best attacks come with the queens gone and imagination at its highest rate. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS BY EDMAR MEDNIS.&nbs...
A cheap trick
This puzzle is a weird mysterious puzzle but find the best move!so good luck!!
puzzle II
black to move
puzzle
black to move
Kings Indian Attack
The King's Indian Attack (KIA) is a chess opening system for white, most notably used by Bobby Fischer. Its typical formation is shown in the diagram to the right. The opening is not a series of specific moves, but rather a system that can be ...
Tactics!
Have you ever felt like playing a strong guy and then he plays lots of tactics and gives you a hard time?He/she is like a queen up and you have no chance of winning. Sometimes people play weird openings and win,e.g weird gambits then they hav...
En passant
I have noticed that computers will not let you do the move, En passant. It is a very rare move an that is probably why you can not do it. In the picture to the right, the pawn on e4 would move to d5 and take the pawn on e5.
A jumble of tactics
I played a game once on chess.com, and on looking back at it, I realized that it is very constructive, as it illustrates many of the basic tactics and principles of chess, including skewers, forks, double checks, development, fianchettoes, pawn ho...
Overload!
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...
The Galloping Knight
Watch Tarrasch's knight in this game as it leaps around the board, forcing a weary Black to resign. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS AND TITLE BY IRVING CHERNEV.
Mating the Tuna in Deep Water At the Flea House of the August Moon
The Flea House designated the Chess and Checker Club of New York, which was located on 42nd Street near Times Square. It was a place where players could come and play chess, checkers, Russian checkers, Spanish checkers, dominoes, go, backgam...
Attack! Nezh Style!
For those unfamiliar with the chess games of Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov or Super Nezh for short, we'll go through a great game of his which served as inspiration for a recent blitz game I played. By the way, if you have no clue who I'...
The Isolated Pawn
This game shows Lasker in his best form as he shows the best way to deal with an isolated pawn. He wins material, but still must win an endgame. How he does this is a treat to watch. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS AND TITLE BY IRVING CHERNEV.
My unforunate luck
Sometimes are moment when we are so confident of ourself and the games with weaks players this make that we make a huge blunder, but for our luck he didn't spot tactics.