Chess Teaching » Exercises http://chessteacher.110mb.com Chess Lessons & Exercises Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:23:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Capture exercises http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/05/08/capture-exercises-2/ http://chessteacher.110mb.com/2008/05/08/capture-exercises-2/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 07:45:13 +0000 Chess Teacher http://chessteacher.110mb.com/?p=155 As I have mentioned in the lesson about taking free pieces almost all chess games are won by first obtaining a material advantage.

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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 about the value of these pieces.
The exercises can be seen as a follow-up on this last one and the lesson about taking free pieces.

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I have created some knight fork exercises, but before trying to solve these it may be a good idea to re-read the lessons mentioned above.

Chess puzzle pieces

If you like some more exercises you may also be interested in the mate in one or mate in two problems.

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At DHTML Goodies I have found a chess widget that can be used to display pgn files, broadcast live games or display training exercises.
I think it looks rather nice, but before I start adding a lot of exercises I want to evaluate it more thoroughly. For this evaluation I have used the 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate which can be found at a lot of other locations on the internet and are also included with the widget.

What do you think?
Should I add the new exercises and make them available in a similar way or should I stick to the WordPress plugin I have used before?

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Black to move Position after move 7 Castling possibilities: KQkq 3 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture







Black to move Position after move 6 Castling possibilities: kq 0 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture








White to move Position after move 6 Castling possibilities: KQkq 2 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture







White to move Position after move 3 Castling possibilities: KQkq 0 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture








Black to move Position after move 29 5 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture







Black to move Position after move 25 1 half-move after last pawn advance or capture








White to move Position after move 56 0 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture







Black to move Position after move 22 1 half-move after last pawn advance or capture

The next lesson is about the Elephant Trap.

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You can make a move by clicking on a piece and dropping it at the target square.

One additional tip: the load time of the page will be minimized by viewing only this article.








White to move

???

1.Qf8+ Kd7 2.Be6+ Kxe6 3.Qf5# 1-0


 

The Smothered Mate is the next lesson in this series of chess lessons.

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You can make a move by clicking on a piece and dropping it at the target square.

One additional tip: the load time of the page will be minimized by viewing only this article.








White to move

???

1.g7 Bxg5 2.g8=Q# 1-0


 
Next in this series of chess lessons is the lesson about the Fried Liver Attack.

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You can make a move by clicking on a piece and dropping it at the target square.

One additional tip: the load time of the page will be minimized by viewing only this mate in one article. Or do you prefer the mate in two problems or the mate in three problems?








White to move

???

1. Qh3# 1-0



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The exercise is randomly selected during each visit (or after a refresh).








White to move

Capture

1.Nxb3

You can make a move by clicking on a piece and dropping it at the target square. You have three attempts, after which the solution will be revealed.

This post has been replaced by a new post that contains the link to more capture exercises by using the DHTML Chess PGN Viewer. If you prefer this old way of publishing chess exercises please let me know.


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One way to localize these pieces is to look at each of your own pieces to see whether one of them can take the piece that just moved. Another way to localize these pieces is by starting from this piece itself and look on the same line or file for rooks and queens, on the same diagonals for Bishops, etcetera.
Not all potential free pieces are to be found this way, but it is a good start for a beginning chess player. For a more experienced player it is also needed to look at the opponent’s pieces that were defended by the moved piece at its previous position.

Later on it will become more important to assure that the found potential free pieces are really free.

Some exercises







White to move Position after move 13 5 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture







White to move Position after move 9 Castling possibilities: KQkq 0 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture








White to move Position after move 0 0 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture







White to move Position after move 0 0 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture








White to move Position after move 32 3 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture







Black to move Position after move 19 3 half-moves after last pawn advance or capture

In the last exercise it is Black’s turn to move and the piece isn’t for free. But, does this matter?

By now it is time that we learn about the value of the pieces.

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But there were two problems with these diagrams. First of all it takes a lot of bandwidth, because for each visit the site has to be changed. And secondly I didn’t add a difficulty level to the diagrams, which made it less usefull.
The initial purpose was to give a demonstration of the PGN plugin, but a lot of other examples can now be found on this site.
For the future I’m looking at a solution in which I can use normal PGN-files, for example with the DHTML chess viewer. As a kind of experiment you can try to solve the 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate on a rather large chess board. If this turns out to be working fine I will probably use this to add more chess exercises in the future.

In addition nowadays a chess tactics server exists that has more exercises and the difficulty level is included. Therefor I decided that the best thing to do at this place is to point you to this chess tactics server.

If some of the exercises turn out to be rather difficult it may be a good idea to continue with the chess lessons and try them later.

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