Chess Teaching Archives

The immortal game

The immortal game is one of the most famous games ever played. It was played in 1851 as an informal game between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. According to Wikipedia:
Played between the two great players at the Simpson’s-in-the-Strand Divan in London, the immortal game was an informal one played during a break in a formal [...]

Kieninger trap

The Budapest Defence is a chess opening that starts with the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5. This is one of the rare gambit lines for Black, because almost all of the gambit lines are for White. It is rarely played at grandmaster level, but for the amateur it may be a nice way to immediately [...]

Creating a passed pawn

A passed pawn is a pawn that can not be stopped anymore by one of the opposing pawns. A passed pawn is rather valuable especially in the endgame. Passed pawns are dangerous and they have to be stopped. Assuming that the pawn can not be captured we can stop them by:

attacking the square in front [...]

WordPress 2.3.3

It seems that WordPress 2.3.3 solves an urgent security release, so I updated again. If you don’t like to update your blog it is possible to limit this action by only replacing the xmlrpc.php with the fixed version.

Storming the Castle

This is an old, but very illustrative game that shows how to take care of a development advantage and some mistakes of your opponent.