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...]
The Greatest Bunratty Festival Yet
The Greatest Bunratty Festival Yet What drew more than 350 chess players to a remote hotel in the south-west of Ireland, including twelve grandmasters and many IMs just for a weekend, 20-22 February? Perhaps it was the wet, windy Irish weather. More likely, it was the beer. Most likely of all it was the traditional festival atmosphere created by the sponsor Gary O'Grady of the London Heathrow-based Blackthorne International Transport (www.blackthornetransport.co.uk) which specialises in delivery cargo to Russia. This was about the twentieth time a winter chess congress has been held in Bunratty but only the second time I have attended. The previous time was 1997 when there were only a … [Read more...]