Chess pieces King Queen Rook Bishop Knight PawnA chess piece, or chessman, is any of the 32 movable objects deployed on a chessboard used to play the game of chess. In a standard game of chess, each of the two players begins a game with the following 16 pieces:...
a move that results in a clear two pawn advantage or better. The color disk on the diagram indicates who moves first. Solutions are found under the puzzles when you drag your curser between the two brackets. All solutions have been verified by a grandmaster-rated chess engine. Strategy...
The chess world is rife with conflicts of interest. Many people who might otherwise be qualified to write about chess with authority have past or current business relationships with people or organizations they might or would have to write about, or they are friends with those people. That makes...
On board two,Nihal SarinandPavel Ponkratovalso split a point. In the semi-Slav defence, Sarin was thinking for a long time whether he wanted a draw or not, but, in the end, he decided not to take chances and went for repetition as White. The tragic person of the day isEvgeniy Naj...
The training section has more than 300 practical endgame exercises, covering every type of endgame a tournament chess player should know, from endgames with few pieces to complicated pawn endgames, etc. Knowing how to play chess endgames well will give you a big edge in tournaments. You ...