Trial by Tactics is our member-only Daily Chess Puzzle. 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. These puzzles can also be used as test questions in conjunction with the ChessEdu.org curriculum. A new puzzle is posted daily. Your daily chess quiz! [FEN … [Read more...]
Anatomy of a Disaster
Inside Chess, 1992/9 Anatomy of a Disaster By Yasser Seirawan Since winning the US Championship, Gata Kamsky's chess career seems to be heading straight up. I was anxious to cross swords with him at Belgrade. In this, Anatomy of a Disaster Part II, you'll see that when it rains, it pours. Seirawan,Yasser (2615) - Kamsky,Gata (2595) Belgrade Investbank, 1991 Symmetrical English [A34] 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.dxc3 Qxd1+ 7.Kxd1 Bg4? A bad mistake. Since Black doesn't want to trade this Bishop, it's better left at home. On g4 it's a target. 8.Kc2 Nc6 9.Be3 e6 10.Bb5 Surprisingly, the position is already a technical win. Since a doubling of … [Read more...]