Members enjoy access to all archived content, including thousands of PDFs and hundreds of Ebooks – all free! To join: make a $25 (or more) tax deductible donation to ChessEdu.org and we will send your log in details for one-year access. (It may take up to 72 hours to receive your log in.) In Trial by Tactics you are shown the position just before the tactic occurs and then asked to visualize the winning sequence. Thereby emulating a real game scenario. We intersperse these puzzles with endgame studies and chess problems to explore the broad spectrum of chess creativity. We recommend using Trial by Tactics in conjunction with the ChessEdu.org curriculum. A new puzzle is posted … [Read more...]
Chess Literature: A Question of Quality
Chess Literature: A Question of Quality By Tim Harding The founders of Quality Chess, back in 2004, were Swedish IM Ari Ziegler, Danish GM Jacob Aagaard, and Scottish GM John Shaw. In 2007, after Ziegler left to become president of the Swedish chess federation, the company moved to Scotland and two more Scottish titled players - IM Andrew Greet (previously known as a chess author for Everyman Chess) and GM Colin McNab - later joined the team. The output of Quality Chess is about evenly divided between openings and "improvement" books, the latter dealing with various aspects of chess, though not history or biography and there is little on the endgame. Possibly relevant to some readers, a … [Read more...]