So to be honest I don't really play chess these days, and if I do, it's on the other site which I don't know if I'm allowed to mention here since I haven't been here for quite a few years. But anyways I'm not real active these days on this site. I...
The Sodium Attack, which is named "Sodium" since Na3 has "Na", he chemical symbol for sodium, does little to control the center, but you can transpose into a better setup.
This is a position from one of my games. Enjoy.
Have you been playing bullet chess lately? Stop doing it. Bullet chess trains and rewards quick thinking, which can be helpful skills. But in chess, it's not. Bullet chess is "Premove everything, don't calculate" while slower time controls are "Ca...
This is a modified position from one of my (Crazyhouse) games. Enjoy.
Enjoy.
What do you think are the most important concepts in chess? Tactics? Openings? Line Calculation? Pattern Recognition? The most important are... well, I'll tell you later. First, see how fast you can figure out mate in this position: So... ...
The Bg3 trick is a tactic that is not well known, but is fairly simple to set up. Below is an example: The bishop is temporarily immune to capture when it moves to g3 since black has to deal with the threat of mate on h7. While black has defen...
