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Dear ladies and gents :-) The reason why we shouldn't play 4. 0-0 on the Philidor with Nh6 was the following variation, which forced us to move our bishop twice, the one on c4. Pls memorize it. 4. 0-0 Nc6 5. d4 Bg4 6. Bb5 (the bishop has moved twice here) exd4 7. Qxd4 Bxf3 8. Bxh6 Qh4 9. gxf3 Qxh6 10. Bxc6+ bxc6 White has a moderate advantage. (1.01) Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Let's get start on the Philidor Defence :-) Please memorize the following. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 This is the start of the philidor defence; up to now, it's all book moves. 3. Bc4 Nh6 To protect the f7 weak pawn. Now the best move is to contend for the center with d4 which I'll talk about it the next lesson; here we'll use the castling technique. Because in fast game, when someone pulls out a nh6, it's all right for us to save some time by o-o immediately. So let's see: 4. 0-0 Nc6 tries to stop the d4, but useless. 5. d4 ed has to be ed, otherwise with the exchanges of knights also, the white queen takes queen, and the black king would be shifted to the queen's position without castling. 6. Nxd4 similar to the sicilian position with the bishop on c4, a classical position, which would allow the bishop on the c-file staying longer while white keeps on developing his pieces rapidly. The knight watches the e6-square, not allowing exchanges of bishops on e6. 6... Be7 7. Bxh6! gh this round wrecked the black king-sided pawn structure; thus, the black king lacks a safe home. 8. Nc3 0-0 9. Nd5 Bd7 10. c3 Ne5 11. Be2 Bh4 tries to attack White's weak pawn at f2. 12. f4 Like the king's gambit accepted, try to open the f-file by pushing the f-pawn and rearranged the pieces on attacking the f7 weak pawn; the original plan :-) Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Please do the following puzzle The rook here acted as an electric fence. Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents Here you are! With this tip, please gain at least 150 points for the easy-computer on the 10/10 games. Remember our goal was to reach the 1600 to 1800's level by Christmas time, so let's reach for it. I've found the easy-computer fell into this trap very often, so let's play it. Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Let's work on the discovered attacks Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Here's another one to work on Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Let's try this one Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Let's do another one of double checks Love,amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Let's finish our series on double checks Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Let's have our double checks done Love,amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Let's continue with our double checks Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Here's another one, a double check, to try Love,amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Let's go for this double check Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Let's work on the second double check Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Double Check was the most powerful chess tactics on board Let's work on it. Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Here's how we played the knight-retreated line of the Morphy Gambit Please take it by heart. Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Please memorize the sequence followed Love,amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Here's the Kostics Trap It's from a game of Muhlock vs Kostics at Cologne in 1912. You may find this game as game #12 in Irving Chernev's 1000 Best Short Games of Chess, New York, Simon & Shuster, 1955. Love, amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Here's the Morphy Gambit H5 Trick It was based on corrupting the Black's kingside pawn structure. Then, we could give devastating checks to Black. Love,amntony

Dear ladies and gents, Let's continue our lessons of the repertoire for White :-) Love, amntony