Chess is a game of strategy, patience, and skill, but sometimes, you want to win quickly. Whether you’re aiming to impress, play multiple games in a short span, or catch your opponent off guard, mastering quick victories can be a valuable part of your chess arsenal. Here are some key...
How Chess Prodigy Is Kept in CheckWilliam Hartston Chess Correspondent
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Every chess player wants to play a brilliant move. But how do you know if a move is brilliant, and how can you find it in your own games?
CheckMate - How to Win in Chess - Checkmate is a situation in the game of Chess where a player’s King is threatened directly by another player’s piece (the King is in Check) and has no way to defend him by escaping, capturing the threate.
The right path to win chess games in a few moves is getting theinitiativesince the first move, and even before that! ☺ This is what you get when you areplaying White: You make the first move, you decide how the game goes. But your opponent will oppose your ideas. That is why you...
Once I learned this technique, I played some blitz Rook vs Knight endgames vs top chess programs and drew all of them. Knight's Box I found it useful to visualize the technique in term's of a box. Consider the knight on d1 (below). The knight can be visualized in a vert...
Your key to fresh ideas, precise analyses and targeted training! The Woodpecker Method was first described by GM Axel Smith in his breakthrough training book,Pump Up Your Rating. Despite a somewhat clickbait title, it is a serious training book of the highest order, which covers a wide variet...
e4 to 1. d4 as White. Feedback/thoughts on this would be appreciated, as well as "must-know lines" as a 1. d4 player.Anyway, here are two of my recent online 15-minute games on chesskid.com:1. Me vs a player whos online 15 minute ("fast chess") rating was over 300...