http://chessteacher.110mb.com Chess Lessons & Exercises Thu, 08 May 2008 18:49:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/05/08/capture-exercises-2/ 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. 2r2rk1/4b1pp/1p1pb3/pP4n1/P2P1N2/1N4P1/5PB1/2R2RK1 w - - 0 33 If White plays Bd5 then Black can just capture the ... http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/05/01/replacing-a-piece/ Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. I have update immediately, because of the security fix. http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/04/25/wordpress-251/ In some of the previous lessons we have learned about the pin and how we could make use of a pin in order to win a piece. All these lessons started with a position in which two enemy pieces were aligned with each other. In order to create an absolute ... http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/04/21/chess-tactics-explained/ Before we start with a new lesson about the pin we are going to repeat the four things that we have learned about the pin in our previous lessons: 1. Remember the difference between an absolute and a relative pin. r1bqkb1r/ppp1pp1p/2n2np1/1B1p4/4P3/2NP1N2/PPP2PPP/R1BQK2R b KQkq - 0 5An absolute pin Black is not allowed to ... http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/04/15/the-pin-revisited/ As we have seen in our lesson about the fork any piece can create a fork, even a pawn or a King. However the most common fork is the Knight fork. The way the Knight moves makes it more likely that the threat is overlooked. I have created some knight fork ... http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/04/08/knight-fork-exercises/ Some days ago I have upgraded this site to WordPress 2.5. As far as I know without problems, but please let me know if you detect something strange. http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/04/04/wordpress-25/ The evergreen game is (like the immortal game) another famous chess game from Adolf Anderssen. The game was played against Jean Dufresne in 1852 and can also be found in the ICOFY database that we have used during one of our previous lessons. The name evergreen means something like ... http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/04/01/the-evergreen-game/ Let's have a look at the next diagram taken from a real game played in 2007. It is White's turn to move. rnbqk2r/pp2ppbp/5np1/4p3/2B5/2N2N2/PP3PPP/R1BQ1RK1 w kq - 0 9 Before reading further try to figure this out by yourself. Looking at the candidate move 9.Nxe5 we have to conclude that we only have gaine ... http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/03/26/finding-combinations/ In addition to the smothered mate, in which the mated king is unable to move because all the surrounding squares are occupied by his own pieces, there are a lot of mating patterns in which the king is only partly smothered by his own pieces. Let's have a look at the ... http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/03/16/smothering-the-king/