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Patterns are extremely important in chess. Knowing them helps us generate candidate moves, dig deeper into the calculations of variations, and create beautiful combinations by literally speaking, combining various basic elements of our chess vocab... | Read More
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There are at least 3 Knight forks hidden in this game.
Can you find them ?
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Before reading on, give yourself a few minutes to try and solve this problem :
If you found it, congratulations ! I didn't. And I think this kind of position is extremely cha... | Read More
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Difficult, but worth a try, if only to appreciate the beauty of the solution
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Last week, I was browsing through some chess books in a famous Paris book store, looking for inspiration, when the shop owner offered his help.
I politely declined, but when I looked up in his direction, I noticed an unusual position on the wall ... | Read More
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John was a bit nervous today. For the very first time, he was going to play a game against his mentor, a long game, with clocks and all the regular stuff. Of course, it wasn’t his first competitive game : since he had decided to take advantage o... | Read More
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The first four articles of this series are available in the Learning with Fun group forum.
A well-known chess recipe to fight against a gambit is to take the pawn on offer, and give it back sometimes later to complete development. The key idea he... | Read More
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Well, you know, sometimes you look at a game with friends, and you stop in front of a move. It's surprising, it's original, but it can't work, can it ? So you try to refute it, but you don't manage to. This is just a great move, a classy move...Go... | Read More
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One of the recreational past-times we enjoy at my club is to bring along interesting positions and games and analyze them together. It's always funny and instructive, because you can pit your ideas against those of your teammates, and you actually... | Read More
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After a difficult tournament last summer, I tried my luck again in a 9-round FIDE tournament last week. I had diligently trained my tactics in the past three months and was determined to do my best.
Well the results were above everything I could ... | Read More