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...]
My Memories of Tartakower
Inside Chess, 1989/9 Hungarian journalist and chessplayer Ladislas Lindner met the legendary Dr. Tartakower for the first time in the 1930s. So began a friendship between the two that was to last for decades. In telling the story, Mr. Lindner recreates the events and flavor of a time long past and shows the great Doctor to be a philosopher as well as a chessplayer. My Memories of Tartakower by Ladislas Lindner When a devoted chess enthusiast is a journalist-and, as such, a chronicler of chess events, as I have been - then he feels that he owes a debt to posterity if he fails to share all his remembrances of the great players and the interesting events of his youth. During my youth, … [Read more...]