These diagrams are presented without any explanatory text as they are straight forward and easy to understand. The mating pattern and mating nets employed are applicable around all the four sides of the chessboard (both wings and both back ranks). When a Queen is located in one of the wings or back ranks, and separated […]
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I. Basic Moving and Capturing. The Queen is one of the three multilinear pieces, and is the strongest piece on the chessboard from the standpoint of being able to move, attack, capture, and generally to create havoc for the opponent. While the Kings are the most powerful pieces on the chessboard, the Queens are second in […]
Black to Move and Win
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This mate occurs when the opposing King is sandwiched in between two pieces on the back rank with the Queen delivering mate from the opposing player’s third rank vertically aligned with the King. The name derives from the similarity to the epaulettes (shoulder boards) on military uniforms. As with many mates, the lack of King […]
IA. pawn Chains. A pawn chain consists of two or more of a player’s pawns connected (lined up diagonally), where a rear pawn is protecting a vertically forward pawn one rank forward and in the file to the left or right of the rear pawn. The chain may be the simplest form – a two-pawn chain – […]
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II. Passed pawns A passed pawn occurs when a player advances one of his or her pawns past the ability of an opposing pawn in a file to the left or right (a forward diagonal square) to capture the pawn that is advanced, and there is no opposing pawn in the file to […]
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