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 daily. Problems are the poetry of chess! [FEN “5Qb1/1q2Rr2/8/5k1K/4N3/3pPp2/8/8”] White mates in thr … [Read more...]
Play Like Magnus Carlsen!
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 daily. Your daily chess quiz! [FEN “r2r4/pp3kb1/2p1n1pp/P4q2/1PQP4/2N1R3/5PPP/3R2K1 b - - 0 21”] What did Black h … [Read more...]
Play Like Kamran Shirazi!
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 daily. A tactic a day keeps the losses at bay! [FEN “r3kb1r/ppp4q/2np1pp1/8/2PPP3/1N2BPPb/P3Q3/R3R1KB b kq - 0 1 … [Read more...]
Think Like Gabriel Authier!
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 daily. Problems can be studied as science and practiced as art! [FEN “8/3p4/8/K7/2B5/kp2N3/7R/8”] White mates in … [Read more...]
Play Like Var Akobian!
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 daily. Your daily chess quiz! [FEN “1Q6/p3q1k1/1p2p1p1/r2b4/3P2R1/8/6P1/5R1K w - - 0 34”] How should White fol … [Read more...]
Think Like Mikhail Tronov!
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 daily. An endgame study has the cultivated intensity of a short story. [FEN … [Read more...]
Think Like Vladimir Golubenko!
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 daily. Opening teach you openings. Endings teach you chess. [FEN “8/8/8/2B5/1p6/3K4/p7/k3N3”] White to move and w … [Read more...]
Think Like Rolf Reussner!
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 daily. Problems are the poetry of chess! [FEN “8/1n3n2/p1p1N1b1/k1P2NB1/P2P4/PB1pK3/8/8”] White mates in thr … [Read more...]
Play Like Cemil Aghamaliyev!
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 daily. Your daily chess quiz! [FEN “r4r1k/p1q1bppp/1p2pn2/2p1N3/3P3P/3B2R1/PPPQ1PP1/2KR4 w - - 0 17”] What did Wh … [Read more...]
Two Against One Leaves None
Two Against One Leaves None by Bruce Pandolfini You can take it back to the Borgias. Hey, you can take it back further, maybe to the Greek City States. You can even get antediluvian. But why do that? You don't have to go back that far. Let's look no further back than the 1960s. I'm especially thinking of that revelatory experience, that game-changing movie, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." So tell me, when the three bad guys faced off in the end, what happened when two ganged up against one? The two won, right? That brings us to this month's offering, the situation of bishop and knight vs. bishop. With nothing else on the board, it's remarkable all the tactics that can emerge to … [Read more...]