Some News

Submitted by Grakovsky on Thu, 04/23/2009 at 12:32pm.

I am pleased to announce the opening of my new chess blog. You can find it at this link: http://www.daveschessblog.blogspot.com/.

Also if you didn't know by now, Chess.com has recently began making video podcasts which can be found at this link: http://www.chesscomvideos.com/.

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by TheSickPuppet - 6 months ago
Burbank, CA United States

Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 3

+1 ON THE PODCASTS. Gonna subscribe now.

And nice work on the blog too. Clean!

by Phobetor - 6 months ago
Eindhoven Netherlands

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 1202

The blog looks good, but I have one comment. In your post from April 27, diagram 2 you say White to force a draw. First of all, there are no losing moves, so it's a bit of a weird question to ask the reader to find a drawing move for white :)

But second of all, I do think white can win. White can play Kg5-f4-e4, and Bc5-d6-e5+ to either exchange bishops or drive the king from the corner, both of which win for white.

And if I'm not mistaken, even 1. f6 Bxf6+ should be a win for white after 2. Kf5 Bg7 3. Bd6 Bf6 4. Be5 Bxe5 5. Kxe5 Kg7 6. h8=Q+ Kxh8 7. Kf6 Kg8 8. g7 Kh7 9. Kf7 etc.