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. A tactic a day keeps the losses at bay! [FEN … [Read more...]
A Nice Win by Nakamura
This month we present a lightly edited excerpt from Chess Evolution Top GM Secrets Newsletter #164. Top GM Secrets is released every Friday of the week. The newsletter contains twenty-plus pages of great chess material written by top grandmasters Arkadij Naiditsch and Csaba Balogh, along with theoretical articles by GM Alexander Khalifman, puzzles, endgames, and more.A Nice Win by NakamuraBy Csaba BaloghTroff,Kayden W (2532) - Nakamura,Hikaru (2798)ch-USA 2015 Saint Louis USA (8.1), 09.04.2015Modern Benoni [A62]Nakamura has convincingly won the U.S. Championship. Let's examine one of his victories. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nc3 g6 [FEN … [Read more...]