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Tactics: The Fork

Tactics: The Fork

alex95
| Sep 28, 2008
| 1,110
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The fork Target audience: >1400 The fork is a tactic which attackes two or more pieces of the opponent gathering material of him (ecause the opponent can only rescue one piece at a time). Almost always knights are used to fork because they ...

100 games on Chess.com

100 games on Chess.com

alex95
| Aug 31, 2008
| 965
| 0

Well, thats 100 games on chess.com and what a ride it's been. Started normal, was quite good in the middle and made some mistakes at the end. It is time to do some learning, to stop believing that somehow chess skills are just going to appear, s...

Hattersheim Tournament

Hattersheim Tournament

alex95
| Jul 24, 2008
| 1,331
| 0

Alessandro Brizzi becomes vice-master of the U14 in HattersheimFabian Schulze, Alessandro Brizzi and Alexander Sum with documents and special pricesThe Steinbacher chess youth was again very successful on 1 June in this year with a chess tournamen...

Mate with two bishops

Mate with two bishops

alex95
| Apr 1, 2008
| 1,646
| 1

Checkmate is possible with two bishops and the king against a king. However checkmate is not possible with two knights and the king against a king. Let me explain the two situations a bit more clearer... 1. Let's first check out the two bish...

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