When you are thinking about chess: “check, and check, and checkmate”are words that resound in your head, as if they were a background music, or some kind of video game’s sound effects. However, you get surprised when you learn that you can win a chess game without giving a single...
Chess problems come in various forms, such as endgame studies or complex middlegame positions. These problems typically involve a specific goal, such as checkmate in a certain number of moves or finding a winning combination. By regularly solving chess problems, you can sharpen your calculation sk...
Timeout is a painful way to lose a chess game. It does not matter how much of an advantage you have on the board or whether you have checkmate in one move. If you run out of time, you automatically lose the game if your opponent has the minimum material required to force a checkmate...
The knight cannot move because it’s preventing checkmate, by Qf7. The bishop on c5 is under attack by a pawn. And, if the knight falls to Bxh6, black cannot play gxh6 because Qe6 is mate: so it has to get a piece to defend the f7 square, likely playing Qe7. Worst yet, there...
In many ways this violence can be compared to violence within children’s cartoons where a character is hit over the head or falls off a cliff but walks away unscathed. Argument has occurred in part because of the intensity of the game play, which is said to spill over into children’s ...
Checkmate in the centre of the board. Fischer punished his opponent, who forgot the general principle: Get your king to safety in the opening as quicky as possible. 0–1 Start an analysis engine: Try maximizing the board: Use the four cursor keys to replay the game. Make moves to ana...
Over the centuries chess has evolved and spread across the globe,becoming one of the most popular strategy games.It is played with two players who take turns to move 16 pieces to attack each other's king.The aim is to trap the king into checkmate (将死),so that it cannot move to ...
From Kelly Siskind comes a slow-burn romantic comedy about one man’s creative attempt to win back his high school sweetheart after a change in fortune gives them a second chance at love。Growing up, I had it all—my art, close friends, a gorgeous girlfriend who owned my heart—but then...
Over the centuries chess has evolved and spread across the globe,becoming one of the most popular strategy games.It is played with two players who take turns to move 16 pieces to attack each other's king.The aim is to trap the king into checkmate (将死),so that it cannot move to ...
Checkmate with Different Piece Combinations Unleash the power of various piece combinations, such as bishops, knights, rooks, and queens, to strategically deliver checkmate. Stalemate: The Unforeseen Draw Stalemate is a draw in chess that occurs when the player whose turn it is to move has no le...