Posts contained within this category are related to the game of chess, primarily tactics and strategies that can be used in tournaments and on tournament chess sets
To round off our brief look at different sections of the game, here are some great tips to improve your chess endgame. The King is a Weapon You’ve spent most of the game treating the King like he’s made of glass and hiding him from your opponents pieces. In the endgame the King can become […]
Wilhelm Steinitz was dethroned in 1894, in a series of games played across North America. There are some grumbles about the man who would beat him, Emmanuel Lasker, namely that he hadn’t played either of the other potential challengers before squaring up to Steinitz. However, this seems to be sour grapes as the other two […]
Believe it or not there’s a sport that takes the glamour of chess and combines it with the brutality of boxing. In fact the World Chess Boxing Association has held over a dozen international events since it was formed in 2008. A Chessboxing match is composed of 11 rounds – switching from a 4 minute […]
We’re not talking about a chess set swap shop here – though that would be kind of cool, but rather the exchange of pieces of equal value for each other. Obviously the ideal in chess is to take your opponents pieces for free, but in most cases your opponent is likely to be quite stingy […]
Castling is one of those moves that often confuses people, there are in fact three ways to achieve castling. The first is long (that’s when you castle with the Queen’s side rook), the second is short (King’s side) and the third is artificial (which isn’t really castling but it’s where you end up with the […]