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. 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 … [Read more...]
The New McCutcheon
Learn the McCutcheon Review by Steve Goldberg The New McCutcheon, by Rustam Kasimdzhanov, 2014 ChessBase, DVD, 4 hours, 42 minutes playing time. $34.95 (ChessCafe Price $29.87) Particularly for a player looking for a Black repertoire response to 1.e4, The New McCutcheon by Rustam Kasimdzhanov is an excellent choice. The McCutcheon French is reached after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bb4. So what is “new” about this? Kasimdzhanov explains that 5.e5 h6 6.Bd2 used to be the main variation, with 6.Bc1 and 6.Bh4 also common continuations. But now, he states, 6.Be3 is the primary follow-up. In this DVD, former world champion Kasimdzhanov reviews all of these variations, and … [Read more...]