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Chess is an ancient game created more than 1500 years ago. Smartphone is a relatively new technology which is roughly 20 years old (believe it or not). What if the two combined together and can be carried in your pocket all the time? Isn’t it amazing? Here is why you should have a chess app on your phone:
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 pieces on the board.
Our goal is to visualize the whole variation before touching any pieces. Only then you should play the moves on the board. That approach maybe more difficult for some players. Trust me, it will lead to quick tactics improvements and more won games in future.
Today we present you the 10 awesome chess drawings by Mr. Stushie. Feel free to check out his Flickr page for more amazing chess graphics and content.
Every picture in his collection has a deep meaning…
For example, the one you see on the right is a chess knight at school learning how to fork pieces, checkmate with his friend Bishop and complete the Knight Tour!
If you think chess masters don’t make mistakes in their games, you should review these 10 shortest games. Many of them ended up with a checkmate, all under 12 moves. This is not a compilation of GM blunders as I presented in Top 10 Biggest Blunders Grandmasters Made at Chess, but rather a compilation of short games lost by the strong players.
Here it is, for you to judge.
Chessbibliophile continues his series of reviews on New in Chess Yearbooks, important titles from the point of opening theory. If you wish to read a review of the New in Chess Yearbook 103 it may be found here -Ed.
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 chess composition existence.
Today we present to our readers 5 three-movers to solve.
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 amount of time.
I want to ask each and every chess player who is reading this right now, to set aside a few minutes of your time and to challenge yourself with these compositions!
The 3rd FIDE World Cup in Composing was held in the second half of 2013 under the aegis of WFCC.* The event directed by Dmitry Turevsky included both studies and problems. In the Studies Section there were as many as 40 entries. Mr. Iuri Akobia, eminent composer was the judge. At the moment Preliminary results have been announced. They will be declared final after two months allowed for claims of anticipation and unsoundness.
As of now Richard Becker, a well-known composer from the USA has claimed the First Prize.
White to play and draw
A bewildering position. Both rooks are under attack. At least one of them will have to be given up, but which one?
Solution:
*Source: WFCC
Thanks, Ms Julia Vysotska!
Today I will present you 5 the most common chess myths about getting better at chess.
Is it true that reading chess books will increase your ELO?
Do you think playing enormous number of chess games will make you a master strength player? Let’s find out!
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 can solve these mate-in-2 problems, you can solve everything . Here they are:
