While sacrificing pieces and pawns had been part of the game of chess from its earliest beginnings, the 1800s saw the tactic rise as a prominent weapon in a player’s tactical and strategy arsenal with players such as GM Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (1818-1879) (often Anderssen, A. in game notations). While Anderssen’s Mate is named […]
This checkmate occurs from a corner square with a Rook or a Queen, defended and protected by a pawn or a Bishop in the long diagonal which includes the corner square. The opposing King is checkmated at the square in one of the back ranks in the third file from the wing file (a or […]
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Active coordinated approaches to learning and playing chess result in exciting games. I developed this website to help beginners to enjoy learning the game of chess, and to assist players at various skill levels in steadily improving skills. The techniques I utilize present my vision…mixing, matching, and meshing the rules of chess, guidelines, principles, and […]
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Checkmating with a Bishop & a Knight along with the King against a lone opposing King is a basic simple checkmate. However, in the words of Fred Reinfeld, “This type of checkmate is really difficult and calls for considerable patience and methodical maneuvering. Not only must the lone King be driven into a corner; he […]
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“WHEN you see how quickly and incisively oversights are exploited in…games, you may say to yourself; ‘Why do they blunder? The refutations are so obvious. Why do they overlook them?’ Why, indeed? Every player has at some time or other reflected with wonderment on the remarkable co-ordination of brain, eye and hand. The player studies […]
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