Weekly Problem 09-22-05
White to Move and Mate in 4 White’s best move is 1.Qe5#, but White also can mate in 4 with one mating net yielding six possible mating moves on White’s fourth move.
Category: Chess
White Mates in 6 – Problem 12
White blunders twice; however, Black blunders back allowing White to “steal” the game with mate in 6. White could mate in 3 and mate in 4, or mate in 5, with Black’s similar cooperation. DIAGRAM CCKM-P12 a b c d e f g h 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 […]
Test Page 2.4
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Weekly Problem 06-24-04
White Win’s Black’s Queen
Smothered Mate
White Knight does a solo mate from f7, with opposing Black King entombed at h1 by own pieces and pawns after White’s Queen is sacrificed forcing Black Rook at e8 to capture White’s Queen at g8. “This is the classic form of the smothered mate, with the [Q]ueen sacrifice at g8.” As with most mates […]
Checking and Checkmating Studies II – Simple Checkmates/Basic Endgames
VIII. Simple Checkmates/Basic Endgames. I use the phrase “simple checkmates” not so much to denote that the positions are always necessarily easy checkmates to obtain (some may well not be), but rather as a means to denote the mating patterns and mating nets as being “elementary mating patterns” [phrase used in The Complete Chess Player, by […]
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 […]
Test Page 2.1
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Test Page 31
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Weekly Problem 01-13-05
White Wins Material