Let’s have a look at the diagram below. White is two pawns ahead, but it is Black’s turn to move. Is he able to get a draw?
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White’s bishop is a bad bishop. It has the wrong color and will not be able to drive away Black’s king from the promotion square of the rook pawn. Knowing this Black only has to capture the b-pawn to get the draw.
Tags: Endgame
As a kind of follow-up on the previous post I’ll have to show you this picture from Cindy Seigle. This is one of the many beautiful chess sets set up in the atrium at the West Baden Springs Hotel in Orange County, Indiana.
Chess set at the West Baden Springs Hotel by cindy47452
Tags: Pictures
Chess is often played with beautiful pieces. This is one of the reasons to start playing chess. We like the pieces and we like the game. The picture below illustrates some of this beauty.
Chess by frankblacknoir
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I upgraded to WordPress 2.8.2 which fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect from the admin to another site.
I’ve upgraded this chess tutorials site to WordPress 2.8.1.
So far I didn’t experience problems, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. The admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked. Not all plugins are vulnerable to this problem, but I upgraded to 2.8.1 to be safe.