Killing a Queen
In this article you can see a tactic White uses to gain a queen by an error usually made by some chess players. You can now know the tactic, and avoid someone uses it against you.
The Pillsbury Bind
Early in this game, White gets a grip on the queenside (known as the Pillsbury bind) to keep his opponent busy there. Then he conjures up mating threats on the kingside. Strained to the maximum, his opponent then falls victim to the inevitable com...
Position vs Material
Here is one of my games which shows the importance of position over material... Comments are most welcome!
Surprise! Surprise!
In this game the great Petrosian conjures up threats against a queenside pawn. Pachman is busy defending that, when suddenly a queen sacrifice on the kingside ends the battle. EDIT: one more comment and I will get this article locked or deleted. ...
Fake pins, smothered mates
Unless a pinned piece is pinned to the king, it can still move. You must still try calculate what happens if the opponent lets you get the queen, or mating square, or forking square, behind the "pinned" piece, because they just mig...
Always be alert.
Anthony
Center fork trick
There is a trick very usefull trick that is called: "center fork trick", it's accures alot in games and give the player who used it a usualy better position. Now, for the trick: ...
Double-check for checkmate
One concept that recently crossed my mind was how players can employ two seemingly unimportant pieces together to create a mind-blowing win. Below I have a diagram of a hypothetical game (this almost happened to me, but I caught...
Interesting Puzzle 2
Here is another brain teaser. Although these situations rarely come up in real games--or do they? It could be just that no one bothers to look hard enough or analyze after the fact--they are nevertheless great tools to improve one's game, espe...
Interesting Puzzle
Hi there, I'm a new member, just joined today (Oct. 10th 2007) and I thought that I would submit a fun puzzle I came across in Polgar's massive book of puzzles. I won't say any more about the puzzle because as soon as I give one h...
Une balle dans la tête !
Selon Ziatdinov une méthode efficace pour améliorer son « niveau tactique » est de jouer des parties rapides. "Par rapide j’entends une, deux ou trois minutes maximum (G/1 – G/2 – G/3)…plus d...
C'est mon avis, et ca n'engage que moi !
"Nous n'avons pas d'idée à propos de la nature "réelle" des choses, et cela ne nous intéresse pas particulièrement. La fonction d'un modèle est d'arriver à une de...
Improving your Tactical Vision
This exercise will work for most players rated below 2400. It will improve your tactical vision. Prerequisites: Knowledge of chess notation (algebraic recommended). This is normal since most professional chess tutorials start with an overview of t...
A famous Game, do you remember ?
Mate in 4
The Queen is Inportant to!
Everyone can officail state that the king is the best peice, but I would argue and agree. When I play I protect the 2nd most inportant peice, the Queen. The queen packs butt kicking power and royalty into 1 peice! I beleive that if I can ma...
A Game Full of Tactics
Here is a game full of tactics in which a grandmaster (Frank Marshall) gets checkmated in 11 moves!