Chess Teaching

As I have mentioned in the lesson about taking free pieces almost all chess games are won by first obtaining a material advantage.

I have added some capture exercises to this site. They are intended for the beginning chess player, but it is assumed that this chess player knows how the pieces move and also knows [...]

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When looking at the chess position of the next diagram you may notice that White’s bishop at g2 is able to pin Black’s bishop at e6, but this can’t be called a real pin.

If White plays Bd5 then Black can just capture the bishop. In this specific case 33.Bd5 will probably be followed [...]

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