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.
This is an old, but very illustrative game that shows how to take care of a development advantage and some mistakes of your opponent.
In some of my previous posts I have mentioned the ChessDB chess database program, but you may also want to use one of the other free available chess databases.
Scid (Shane’s Chess Information Database) was written by Shane Hudson. He started Scid in 1999, but the development stopped in 2004.
December 2006 the development of Scid continued [...]
Eight tactical exercises (taken from real games) with increasing difficulty
In one of the previous lessons we have learned about the double attack. But sometimes your opponent will be not so cooperative that he is positioning his pieces in such a way that you are able to attack two pieces at the same time.
With a supporting Knight on c7, d6, f6 or g7 instead of [...]
During the previous lessons we have created some opening reports as well as an opening analysis of the Lolli attack. We have done this while learning how to use a chess database in general and ChessDB in particular. But by creating this opening analysis we are looking for the good games, in fact almost always [...]