Weekly Problem 12-09-04
Black Wins
Give-to-Gain Series
This tutorial section provides additional sacrificing problems in a series designed to foster development of a player’s tactical & strategic vision for the “give-to-gain” concept. The problems present coordination and combination between sacrifices and other tactical & strategic concepts including diversion, luring, skewering, sacrificing a higher value piece for a lower value opposing piece, by […]
Weekly Problem Archive
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The Pawns
I.A. Basic pawn Advancing and Capturing; pawn Structure, pawn Center. A pawn is one of the three multilinear playing objects on the chessboard. Unlike the pieces, a pawn only advances vertically and captures by advancing diagonally. The pawn does not need to capture an opposing piece or pawn. Instead, a pawn may be advanced vertically straight ahead past […]
Basic Bishop Moving and Capturing (Java)
Look at the chessboard below (using white and tan squares for variation) and the position of the Bishops for White and Black. What moves and/or captures may each Bishop do? The MOVES and/or CAPTURES are as follows [with algebraic chess notation provided in the ( )]. If it is Black’s MOVE:Black’s King Bishop at g7: may […]
Blue, Black and Purple Directory
This series of backgrounds is created using a single background shown below. The series was created by changing various attributes including size, sharpness, hue, tone, color scale, shear, and swirl to create 110 variations of the original image. These are shown on the followng pages 1 through 10 for quick viewing. Sometimes there are just […]
Test Page 2.6
This page shows the selected background. The HTML coding uses a BACKGROUND image attribute in the BODY tag. You can download the background images by right clicking in the background area, and (1) for Internet Explorer selecting the “Save Background As” download command from the alternate menu; (2) for Netscape selecting the “View Background Image” […]
Greco’s Mate
This mating pattern and mating net follows the very common theme of bringing pressure to bear against f7 and h7 against Black’s King castled to the Kingside. The basic elements are: White having a Knight at g5 and Queen at h5 threatening checkmate at h7, forcing Black to move h6 to block the checkmate; White’s […]
Weekly Problem 11-25-04
Black Wins by Crushing White’s Kingside
Weekly Problem 02-03-05
White Wins