Here is an amazing chess puzzle! Prima facie it looks obvious that White is clearly winning...but it's not as simple. Black has just played ...Qd4+. White to play and win. Kh2 will be met with Qf4+. White cannot capture Queen as it would lead to stale mate. Hint: Great Sacrifice
I always enjoy solving mate in 2 puzzles. You often need rational thinking and many short calculations to find the solution ЁЯСУ White to move and mate in 2! ЁЯдФ -S. Loyd, 1877 Source: Twitter
So it's American Fabiano Caruana (The Challenger) vs Norwegian Magnus Carlsen (The Defending Champion) in World Chess Championship in November 2018 in London! The American won the candidates match in style on 27th March to qualify as the Challenger. This is the first time since 1972 when an American challenger will challenge the World Chess... Continue Reading →
Magnus Carlsen won the prestigious Tata Steel Chess Tournament (formerly Corus Steel Chess Tournament) yesterday after defeating the joint Top position and GM from Netherlands Anish Giri (of Indian origin) in a Tie-break match. Carlsen won this tournament for the record sixth time and some people have already started calling him "Roger Federer of Chess"!... Continue Reading →
Two of my passions are "investment/valuation" and "chess".┬а I immensely enjoy spending time on both and keep reading/learning. So I was twice as delighted when I read about the title of this article "Investment Lessons from Chess"! Usually such articles only have fancy title and when you start reading you get totally disappointed. But not... Continue Reading →
If you follow Charlie Munger, Warren BuffettтАЩs partner and Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, you would know his love for a mental model called тАЬInversionтАЭ or тАЬThinking BackwardsтАЭ. Charlie quotes Jacobi (тАЬInvert; Always InvertтАЭ) and says that a lot of problems could be solved by inversion тАУ that is, by inverting the problem statement and answering... Continue Reading →
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