I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. After many planned openings, a dark-squared that controls the long diagonal from a1 to h8.A duo of...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. Here are some sophisticated versions (such as with on h4 and on h1) where White wins even though ...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. When Black tries to resist a The Greek Gift attack, a bold action is possible if a on h4 shields ...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. When attacking a castled king, often a sacrifice can lead to a winning position that is worth the m...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. When attacking a castled king, often a sacrifice can lead to a winning position that is worth the m...
In playing games naturally I occasionally encounter a brilliant (!!) assessment in the Game Review. In self-study, I examine each and save them to my Library for review. Generally, I rather fall into the superior position and in the game itself di...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. When attacking a castled king, removing the defending knight is often a key task. In the approach h...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. I feel that I more often find myself victim of this method than perpetrator of it. 127) In ...
In playing games naturally I occasionally encounter a brilliant (!!) assessment in the Game Review. In self-study, I examine each and save them to my Library for review. Generally, I rather fall into the superior position and in the game itself di...
In playing games naturally I occasionally encounter a brilliant (!!) assessment in the Game Review. In self-study, I examine each and save them to my Library for review. Generally, I rather fell into the superior position and in the game itself di...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. I often find myself tempted to go for the xh6 sacrifice. Here Chandler gives a sound basis to the a...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. Viktor Korchnoi (23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a chess grandmaster who defected to t...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. at g6 can be a valuable attacking position in a variety of scenarios. The can threaten mate at h7...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. When sneaks into g6, we may have the makings of Greco's Mate. It was given to this name in The Art...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. A queen and a bishop in consort are a powerful attacking pair. I have felt their lethality in my ha...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. An attacker's and both s are with throwing in with an open or semi-open h-file and the f7-po...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. Reviewing the strategy of on f5, let's focus on the pressure on Black to have to defend a on e7. ...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. on f5 can be the basis of many attacks on a castled due to the way it threatens g7. If checks fr...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. A strategic sacrifice is often the prelude to winning the endgame. Plan and prepare for attacks th...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. Breaking open a castle with on h7 often forces onto h8. Such a bishop can block poised to delive...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. Harry Nelson Pillsbury used this concept in his 16-move win over Francis Lee in London 1899. Pillsb...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. Legendary Paul Morphy's (1837-84) stunning queen sacrifice was played against Louis Paulsen in 1857...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. It takes a lot of confidence to see the opportunity or create the opportunity of such an expensive ...
I am reading How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler. I am blogging to create supporting puzzles in studying the content. It takes a lot of confidence to see the opportunity or create the opportunity of such an expensive ...
The fact that Ray Charles was a chess enthusiast has been blogged about: Would You Play Chess Against Ray Charles? Remembering The Passion Of Ray Charles For Chess etc. And forum'd about: Willie Nelson v Ray Charles Ray Charles, a 16...
