Maurice Ashley is a Jamaican-American chess player, author, and commentator. In 1999, he earned the FIDE title of Grandmaster, making him the first black person to do so. Ashley is well known as a commentator for high-profile chess events. He also spent many years teaching chess. In 2010 he developed a type of puzzles using... Continue Reading →
I mentioned in a recent post that I was looking forward to 2022 and was hoping for it to be the best year in a decade or so. There are few reasons for that hope/belief/optimism. One, few of the things, decisions, investments (money, time, emotional connects) might yield results. Two, quality of life might improve.... Continue Reading →
What did White play here? Capablanca and Lasker together composed this interesting position in 1914.
Black has an active queen, but White hopes to take advantage of the weakened back rank and somehow turn the tables! ЁЯЩВ It's WHITE TO PLAY. Can he win? 1.Rb2, 1.Rd2, and 1.Re2 are the candidate first moves. But which of them is the best? And why? тАФ Dawid Przepi├│rka, 1920
WHITE TO MOVE AND MATE IN 2 Is this really a mate in 2, with the white king so severely exposed on b4? Well, well, wellтАж there are more things in the kingdom of Ca├пssa, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy! ЁЯЩВ тАФ Godfrey F. Heathcote (Revue d'├Йchecs 1904, 1st Prize)
Recently I attended a leadership meeting where I had a brief discussion with Business Unit Head about the Strategy of our company not to diversify and focus on only one specific Industry vertical i.e. Banking and Financial Services (BFS). This was about Data and Analytics capabilities. I made a point with an analogy which was... Continue Reading →
White to play and mate in 2 moves
WHITE TO MOVE AND MATE IN 3 If you're a chess player in the habit of blundering regally тАФ like missing back rank mates and hanging queens kind of regal тАФ then solving this little oldie might just salve your broken confidence! ЁЯЩВ тАФ S├бmuel Goldberg, 1897
This is an interesting chess puzzle which I found on Twitter I managed to guess the correct answer but not very convincingly
This is an interesting chess puzzle which I saw on Chessbase India
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