Chess is Fun Chess BLOGA daily chess blog featuring chess lessons, chess instruction, instructive games, great players, lessons on openings, middlegame strategy, endgames, and great games.Chess Blog: Epic Battles of the Chessboard- (Found July 2, 2008 ) In 1952, R.N.Coles wrote Epic Battles of the Chessboard, an unusual collection because most of the games feature astounding recoveries. To be sure, there are exciting contests and often astounding combintations, but these games were selected because they are tenacious, resourceful, and more closely resemble the type of chess that one might aspire to play at the club.http://www.queensac.com/chessblog.html#chessblog04182004 Chess Blog: Exploring the Endgame- (Found July 2, 2008 ) When I write stories, I like to have to have a good sense of how the story will finish. If I know the ending, I can more easily get there. So too in chess, expertise in the endgame is a great aid throughout the middlegame. If I trade off my pieces, is the endgame favorable It's a key question that underlies much good chess.http://www.queensac.com/chessblog.html#chessblog04202004 Chess Blog: On the Endgame- (Found July 2, 2008 ) You don't become world champion without mastering the endgame. That's probably fair to say, and Botvinnik's On the End Game gives a pretty fair view of what it takes. Certainly experience, but also a fair imagination and a strong dose of creativity.http://www.queensac.com/chessblog.html#chessblog04212004 Chess Blog: How bad a bishop- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Just how bad are bad bishops And are all bad bishops equally bad These are some of the questions explored in a 1989 Thinkers' Press book Strategical Themes by Senior Master Tom Unger.http://www.queensac.com/chessblog.html#chessblog04222004 Chess Blog: Caro Kann in Black and White- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Most books on chess openings have a bias towards one side or another. The bias is natural because players tend to play the opening as white or black but rarely both. An exception is The Caro Kann in Black and White by Anatoly Karpov and Alexander Beliavsky.http://www.queensac.com/chessblog.html#chessblog04232004 Chess Blog: Black is OK- July 2, 2008 For Adorjan, playing black is more than a challenge, it's an opportunity to seek to present well prepared, complex lines that reverse white's normal advantage. My favorite chapter, of course, is "The Quill of the Hedgehog," a great title that summarizes the structure's power. Get too close to Black's pawns and you may live to regret it!http://www.queensac.com/chessblog.html#chessblog04062004 |