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
In 1972, Mark Dvoretsky showed this position from a game of his to Mikhail Tal: "Can you imagine? Such a dangerous position, and no winning combination!" Tal replied: "There's no combination?! No way. I quit chess if that's so." Then, in a few seconds, Tal found the pretty win. Can you find the win? White... Continue Reading →
Is it possible to get this position with White to move?ЁЯдФ
I came across following interesting information about Chess Grandmasters. Don't know if it's true; probably it is. THIS DAY IN CHESS HISTORY: On April 21, 1914 at the start of the St. Petersburg International chess tournament. It was in this tournament the term "grandmasters" were first used. When the preliminaries were concluded the top five... Continue Reading →
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