Introductory note: As mentioned earlier, I advocate a coordinated approach to learning chess…mixing, matching, and meshing basic principles & rules with higher level concepts. While I believe this is the best approach, I recognize that a more sequential upward approach is most often utilized. For those who wish to study the separate tutorials on each […]
Introduction to Chess Objective of the Game Checkmate, Draw, Stalemate, Types of Checks, Anatomy of Mate, Mating Pattern, and Mating Net ObjectivePart1.pdf ObjectivePart2.pdf ObjectivePart3.pdf Simple Checkmates ObjectivePart4.pdf Rapid Checkmates (Fool’s Mate, Three-Move Mate, Scholar’s Mate ObjectivePart5.pdf Alternatives to Mate – Resignation, Stalemate, & Draw ObjectivePart6.pdf The Chess Set: the Chessboard, the Pieces and the pawns […]
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White Gains Material
En passant DIAGRAMS (#4 of 5): French Defense with En passant Capture on f file After 5. … f5 6. exf6 …
Look at the chessboard below. White has a Queen-Bishop Battery (the Queen at a2 and White (King) Bishop at c4). What principles of moving pieces and advancing pawns, and evaluating a game, can you identify from this board position? White’s Queen-Bishop Battery has Black’s Queen Bishop at e6 pinned to Black’s King at […]
Organizations FIDE-World Chess Federation http://www.fide.com FIDE’s Official Laws of Chess USCF-United States Chess Federation http://www.uschess.org USCF’s Correspondence Chess http://www.uschess.org/cc/ ICCF-The International Correspondence Chess Federation http://www.iccf.com http://vachess.org Clubs & Groups and Online Playing Sites LeChess Club http://www.lechess.com A great online playing club! The Team 45-45 League of TeamChess.org http://teamchess.org Designed for slow time play team tournaments […]
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Endgames – Introduction, Fundamental Principle, Basic Considerations, Types, Basic Rules, Principles, and Guidelines, with extensive review of King Opposition. Endgames – Introduction to Positional Themes. Review of King & pawn v. King and Rook & King v. King basic endgames within context of positional themes. Other Endgames section tutorials currently available only in pdf format. (Note: Most basic […]
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