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...]
Held Captive by the Computer’s “Top Line”
Held Captive by the Computer's "Top Line" by Mark Dvoretsky In the fifth issue of New in Chess magazine for 2014, an article appeared by GM Matthew Sadler, entitled "Puzzles? Must be easy!" In it, Matthew recalls how he traveled to Moscow twice, in 1994 and 1995, in order to train with your author, and he presented two tasks he had to solve during training. In Issue #7 of the same magazine, a letter from Bogdan Lalic appeared, disputing the solutions to both tasks. Here are those two tasks: you see if his criticism was deserved. Hort – Mestel London, 1982 1.? White stands significantly better. Vlastimil Hort protected the f4-pawn by means of a most unexpected move: 25. Rf3 … [Read more...]