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Welcome to this seventh puzzle of the puzzle road! I am sorry for the late posting, but yesterday, I had to train hard for my next OTB tournament... I will post today's puzzle in around 5 hours Let's go for this now very hard puzzle! (but less hard than the one before) 7/ Target and take! (Topic: targetting) Did you find the solution? If no, or if you want some explanations about the best moves, check this: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-target-and-take-p7See you today for the today's puzzle and ciao! @Kyu13

Welcome to this sixth puzzle of the puzzle road! I told you the puzzle of yesterday was a good training for the puzzle of today: true! You did find the one of yesterday too easy! You will find this one much more complicated!Let's go! If you don't find the solution or want explanations of the best moves, check it here: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-a-checkmate-in-remembrance-of-bobby-fischer-p6 6/ A checkmate in remembrance of Bobby Fischer! (Topic: sacrifice) You find the moves? Objective: checkmate or win material! Don't forget that you can find the slution here if you really don't find it yourself : https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-a-checkmate-in-remembrance-of-bobby-fischer-p6 See you tomorrow for a (maybe) difficult puzzle!Ciao! Have fun in playing chess!@Kyu13

Hello everybody! Welcome to this fifth puzzle of the puzzle road! You wished a more complicated puzzle and not anymore an endgame or a end-of-the-middlegame puzzle? Here is it!A middlegame with a checkmate possibility for Black! 5/ Unbelievable, I missed that! (Topic: sacrifice) It's not the most complicate puzzle you ever saw, but it's only a pre-puzzle of the next one! And the next one will be... horribly complicated!!! Still, you can check the solution of this tactic with the sacrifice and all the needed explanations with this link: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-unbelievable-i-missed-that-p5 Ciao, see you tomorrow for the ultra-difficult puzzle! @Kyu13

Welcome to the fourth puzzle of the puzzle road by @Kyu13! The puzzle of today is a middlegame pawn promotion with the topic of clearance! If you don't know what "clearance" mean, you can check this blog with the solution of the puzzle: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-go-out-of-my-way-p4You can find the link to the solution pasted in the title of the puzzle and at the end of the forum 4/ Go out of my way! (Topic: clearance) White to play! How to win material or to promote a pawn? Don't forget that the first move you find is not always the brilliant! There are here for the brilliant move two variants of what Black can play. To be sure to know both variants, you can check the solution + the explanation of the topic + the explanation of the puzzle here: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-go-out-of-my-way-p4 Thank you very much for reading, I hope you enjoy the puzzles and tactics of the puzzle road and have fun in playing chess!See you tomorrow,@Kyu13

Hello endgames and tactics lovers!We have, as yesterday, an endgame puzzle, but this time, you cannot solve it to help White to win the game! Exactly, you read correctly: you can't win with White! But you can still stalemate! 2 Bishops against 2 Pawns! 3/ Bishops vs. Pawns: fight for a draw! You think you know what to play with White? How to draw, in a position where you could win you lose? Check the solution with the following link to be sure you are right with your moves! https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-bishops-vs-pawns-fight-for-a-draw-p3 See you tomorrow for the fourth puzzle (this time, it won't be an endgame) and have fun in playing chess! @Kyu13

Happy International Chess Day everybody! Let's continue the puzzle road with the second tactic: luring away! By doing this, we can, for example, promote a pawn! Indeed, luring away means to force a piece of the opponent to move on a square where this one does not block our attack or our pieces 2. Check the king for a good promotion! (Topic: luring away) You think you have found the solution? Nice! Faster than for the first puzzle of the Puzzle Road? Check now if you had right and find the analyzis of this position in this article: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-check-the-king-for-a-good-promotion-p2 Have a good day and see you tomorrow for the third puzzle!

Hello friends!Let's start the puzzle road! What is puzzle road? Puzzle Road is a series of 42 puzzles that are posted in 50 different clubs to help players to become stronger in finding tactics in a game and to improve their chess skills. Moreover, every puzzle has a category and a topic, to help the player to find and beat his weakness. The solution of the puzzle is explained completely and analyzed in my blog, which you can find by clicking on the link at the end of each puzzle-forum! Let's go with the first puzzle! 1. Attack, Block and Take! (Topic: Interference) You found the best moves for Black? Good! You can check the solution and find the analyze with this link: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-attack-block-and-take-p1 See you tomorrow for the second puzzle! @Kyu13

Hi all. Good to find an active club dedicated to the legend. Have any of you read Tigran's python Strategy book? Its on my wishlist though I think about just getting it, but my chess reading list is so long these days.

Mine is the knight because it has the ability to fork and win pieces. Also, it is very valuable in closed positions. How do you guys feel?

https://youtu.be/LL8LXT0sykA

I have created a survey to see what you would like to do in this club going forward. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMYH8twt3HWn5cQCytSwyaCuzsy6T4Q8yclX7IRd86Mghjsg/viewform?usp=sf_link Thanks, @benridge3241