I Will Be Less Active Now For those of you who know me, I will be less active in the coming days. Here is why: 1. I need to focus more on Yahweh and spend more time with Him instead of sitting at the computer playing chess and talking to stran...
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Checkmate Patterns: (a catalog of the most commonly seen checkmates) Learn to recognize the patterns to increase your Pattern Recall. Anastasia's Mate *All diagrams (left, center and right) lead to the same checkmate patter...
Great chess players seem to sense checkmate before it happens. While the rest of us are still counting captures or staring at complicated positions, they already “see” the end. That’s not magic. It’s a tr...
Hi! According to the Merriam-Webster publishing company's website, the English language knows roughly a million different words. Of course, an official count has never really been established, and this is quite a strange task in itself. As it...
Hi everyone, welcome to the first of my blog posts about improving in the world of chess as both a player and a tournament director. Today I'll be tackling the journey I'm on as a TD for the Charlotte Chess Center where I usually run the Sund...
The Camel is considered a "fairy chess piece", meaning it's not part of the standard chess set but is used in various chess variants. It moves like an "elongated knight", jumping in an (3,1) pattern: 3 squares in one direction (horizontal or verti...
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