chess compositions - tag

Yury Markushin
Yury Markushin
01.27.2014
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Yury Markushin
01.27.2014

This time we want to present 5 chess compositions in which you need to find mate in 5. It’s a little bit more difficult than mate in 3, but much easier than mate in 12 as we have seen earlier. When solving these compositions, make sure to first study the position and only then move […]

Yury Markushin
Yury Markushin
01.18.2014
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Yury Markushin
01.18.2014

A three-mover composition is often called the queen of chess problems. Two-movers are pretty easy to solve for experienced chess players, four and five-movers are too difficult for most players to handle. Therefore a three-mover is the most optimal (difficulty-wise) composition that can include all themes generated during past 150 years, the period of modern […]

Yury Markushin
Yury Markushin
01.14.2014
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Yury Markushin
01.14.2014

These chess composition require 8, 11 and 12 moves to deliver the checkmate. Of course, it’s more difficult to find solutions for multi-move problems, but these are not ‘impossible’. I believe, that every chess player that understands notation and can use it in his own games is capable of solving these compositions in a reasonable […]

Yury Markushin
Yury Markushin
01.08.2014
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Yury Markushin
01.08.2014

Today is the hardcore tactics day, so I uploaded 7 extremely difficult chess compositions. These are called compositions because they were created (‘composed”) by the master-mind composers to make your job (as a solver) as difficult as humanly possible. Yes, these positions weren’t taken from the grandmasters games, they are much more complicated. If you […]