In a smothered mate the mated king is unable to move because he is surrounded (or smothered) by his own pieces. Therefor a smothered mate can only be delivered by a knight. We have seen an example of a smothered mate before in the lesson about the Blackburne Shilling Gambit.
This lesson deals with the [...]
The Fried Liver attack is a very nice opening for beginners. It enables a lot of opportunities and is a decent opening unlike the Scholar’s mate attempts that a lot of beginners are playing.
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 The two Knights Defence
4.Ng5 This is an immediate attack at Black’s weakest square f7, but White is also moving a piece in the opening twice.
Still it is a rather nice attack and Black has only the move 4…d5 to avoid losing the pawn on f7.
Another site with chess lessons is Chessguru.net.
ChessGuru.net focus mainly on teaching beginning and intermediate players and it does that in a series of step by step, easy to follow chess tutorials.
If you don’t know anything about chess you may want to start with chess rules. You will learn here about the rules: the pieces, how [...]
The following game between Tarrash and Allies (Naples, 1914) is one of the most famous and illustrative examples of interfering.
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