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    • Advancing the pawn

      Hello, Nickkname here and I want to share with you the arguably most important thing in chess, advancing the pawn.  Advancing the pawn can win or lose the game, below you will see a game I played in, in which I advanced the pawn and won by c... | Read More

      • nickkname
      • | Nov 14, 2009
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    • Common checkmates for beginners

      Hello I am here to show you three common checkmates for beginners First the  two rooks checkmate, the pawn and a king checkmate, and as I like to call it the queen and defender checkmate. Here is the queen and a defender checkmate.  I know ... | Read More

      • nickkname
      • | Oct 31, 2009
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    • The keys of forking

      We all know that chess is about checkmating your opponent.  This is easier to do when you have more pieces than him.  But how do you do that you ask well by forking your opponents king and another piece forking is when you put a king in check an... | Read More

      • nickkname
      • | Oct 25, 2009
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      • | 1 comment
    • Latvian opening tricks for white

      Hello blog readers I am here to show you tricks to the Latvian opening(e4,e5,nf3,f6) such as winning a rook or checkmate in 9 depending on the response. Here is winning a rook. You just saw how to win a rook with the Latvian Opening. Now I will ... | Read More

      • nickkname
      • | Oct 24, 2009
      • | 315 views
      • | 3 comments
    • Don't be distracted by Material loss

      hello My username is nickkname and i am here to tell you not to be distracted by material loss. I was playing in a low rated tournament and was doing very well in(7 wins 0 losses) until I timed out.  but that's beside the point I created this... | Read More

      • nickkname
      • | Oct 24, 2009
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      • | 0 comments