jimbalter wrote:
eric0022 wrote:
Dsmith42 wrote:
It's a pattern mate that's usually in the first chapter of any beginner's chess book. I show it to beginners at my local club fairly often, because it showcases the importance of the double-check.
Actually no - I saw it the first time while looking at puzzles at some other site many years ago. I never learnt it when I had a rating of 1200+ at the time on yet another site. I never used a single chess book at all during that period of time.
Why?!?! In my day people were not illiterate ... every chess player checked out chess books from the library.
I believe that there are much more chess books in the US compared to my country. Or at least, chess wasn't something which many players take up in my country at the time - myself included.
It's a pattern mate that's usually in the first chapter of any beginner's chess book. I show it to beginners at my local club fairly often, because it showcases the importance of the double-check.
Actually no - I saw it the first time while looking at puzzles at some other site many years ago. I never learnt it when I had a rating of 1200+ at the time on yet another site. I never used a single chess book at all during that period of time.
Why?!?! In my day people were not illiterate ... every chess player checked out chess books from the library.