Welcome to the Part 2 of this blog "My kingdom for a horse!". I'm not gonna repeat all the intro text from the Part 1, you can read it there if you want... Contents: Part 1 (previous blog) 1. Get some warm-up (The basics) - 5 puzzles 2. At...
"A horse, A horse, My kingdom for a horse!"-- From Shakespeare's Richard III, 1591 It's always nice to fork your opponent's King & Queen with your Knight (and I prefer to use the word 'Horse' instead of 'Knight'), but it's even more beau...
Here are some of my nice Live blitz & bullet games - in this blog featuring the tactics in the form of puzzles... Try to find the moves that I played in those games & Enjoy! Don't click on the "Solution" / "Help" buttons immediately, use...
I would like to share with you some of my nice Live Blitz & Bullet games - in this blog featuring: Me playing as White the Queen's Pawn Game (1. d4); Exposed & Uncastled Black King; Unguarded h5-e8 diagonal, resulting in an effective Qh5+...
As I know Zika, for White she likes to open her chess games with the "1. e4" move. It was again her turn to play White, so before we started our third face to face game, I asked her if she sometimes plays also the "1. d4" opening. She replied "No...
For my second face to face game with Zika (FIDE rating 2110), I chose the Larsen's Opening (ECO: A01) - just because of the same reasons as the Danish Grandmaster Bent Larsen used it: "He believed it to be an advantage in that Black, usually unfam...
Well, Zika is my friend and also my former colleague from my previous job. She is one of the top Slovak women chess players (FIDE rating 2110) and we agreed on a friendly match face to face. So I went to visit her on this Sunday afternoon (3rd M...
