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Guys, Here are 39 reasons to feel happy about being who you are:
1) Phone Conversations are over in 30 seconds flat. 2) You know stuff about tanks. 3) A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase. 4) You can... | Read More
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Drawing by repetition is not a too frequently used method, but it has produced some remarkable finishes. It implies an equilibrium of forces, in which both players are compelled to draw because they have no better line of play. The position below ... | Read More
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In the following position, can you see what White is threatening? Black misses it completely, because he ignores his weakness on the first rank. How can Black make his position reasonably safe?
Black sees a chance to win White's h4 pawn. Without... | Read More
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In the following position Black played...h6 under the impression that this wins White's Bishop. This reasoning seems convincing, as a move of the menaced Bishop will lose the White Queen. How does White's aggressively posted Rook at g3 spoils... | Read More
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Once upon a time, a mouse was looking through a hole in the wall and saw a farmer and his wife opening a package. He wondered what type of food could be in it, to his horror, he saw that the package contained a mouse trap. The mouse ran to th... | Read More
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In this beautiful miniature, Bobby Fischer, defeats his formidable Newyorker counterpart Reuben Fine. This is truly an amazing game because Fine was nobody to mess with. Very few times in his brilliant chess career has this American... | Read More
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As you all probably know, Anna Zatonskih won the United States Women's Championship by defeating IM and two-time Champion Irina Krush in Tulsa. The two girls tied for first by scoring 7.5 points each, and according to Chess Life writer Tom Br... | Read More
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Sixteen-year-old Bobby Fischer suffers four defeats against Mikhail Tal during the Candidates' Tournament of 1959. He faces Tal again at Bled in 1961, this time things turn out differently, the boy has become a man and he ... | Read More
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Mikhail Tal (1936-1992) won his right to a World title match with Botvinnik by sweeping the interzonal at Portoroz in 1958, coming in ahead of Benko, Petrosian and Fischer; and then winning the Candidates' Tournament of 1959. It was at this Candid... | Read More
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In the following position, White is a Knight and a pawn to the good; yet he is apparently lost. If he moves his Queen off the g-file, he gets mated. Resigning in such situation would have been completely understandable.
Once again... | Read More