It will be impossible to win all games and sometimes you will be pleased to get a draw out of a game. In chess a draw can sometimes be forced from seemingly hopeless positions.
A rather easy example is given in the following diagram.
It is White’s turn to move. I won’t give the right move here, [...]
Learning a chess opening has to include that you know what to do if someone isn’t playing the right moves. Opening traps ans miniatures are very illustrative and help us to increase our knowledge about an opening.
As a follow-up on the lesson about the Scotch game this post will show a combination of some miniatures [...]
Driving the King to the edge with Bishop and Knight.
In the previous lesssons about this endgame we have seen how to drive the King on the edge to the right corner and how to mate the King with only a Bishop and a Knight. Now we will see how to drive the King to the [...]
This is the second lesson in the series about the Bishop and Knight mate.
In the previous lesson we have seen how the King could be checkmated with the Bishop and Knight after he has been locked in the right corner. Now we will see how we can drive the King into the right corner after [...]
The mating with Bishop and Knight is the most difficult of the “elementary mates” and sometimes even takes 33 moves, which is the reason that you can only afford some little mistakes before a draw is reached according to the 50 moves rule.
A lot of additional information regarding this mate can be found on Mostly [...]
