Keeping up the Pressure — a Combinational Attack
Attacks are an important part of chess. Here is a game I played recently:
Pawn Sructure
There are as many pawns on the board as pieces. Thus, it is important to know how to handle them. Pawn structure is really just figuring out whether your pawns are in the right place or the wrong one. Unfortunately, pawns can't change files withou...
Sacrifice!
If you could perfect the sacrifice, you could win almost every time. Unfortunately, the sacrifice is one of the hardest parts of chess to learn. "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think" - Socrates This quote well de...
Tactics 101
Tactics amount to one half of chess. The other half is strategy. The procedure to learn tactics is simple: Learn the basic themes e.g. forks, skewers, pins, discovered check, double check, sacrifice, etc. Then, do lots of puzzles to cement them in...
A Recent Game Between Tk503ps and Ihor95 Reveals Some Exciting Secrets About the Mcdonnel Defense
The second game between tk503ps and ihor95 has an incident in the Mcdonnel defense which leads to seven move checkmate. The mate is easily preventable, however, and is not forced. This checkmate has happened once before to Tkitty: We look forw...
Position Class Upcoming!
Learn positional masterpieces from tkitty! From knight outposts to taking ground to storing your bishops for later, this Position Class has it all!
