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Greco's Sacrifice in the age of computers (or "Why won't my computer just let me win?")

Submitted by Astrocloud on Mon Dec 1, 2008 11:57am.

The diagram to the left represents a classic bishop sacrifice sometimes called the greek gift. The theme varies but usually it involves a bishop sac and a queen and knight attack against the castled king. I am taking this example from Vuković 's ... Read more »

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ChessRules - 100 point race!

Submitted by KanaPolak on Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:07pm.

Taco123 breaks through the 1500 mark with this intensely tactical game! Background:  Roughly a month ago, I reached a new high rating of 1780 at this same time my friend Taco123 reached a new high of 1380.  I proposed a race to increase our 'be... Read more »

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Atac of the friday crazy

Submitted by sevenhunt on Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:57pm.

The white play and win here   Read more »

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"Stalemate in... a lot of moves!"

Submitted by rubyflyer on Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:04pm.

   In this game, I made many critical mistakes losing pieces. As you can see, I was down a bishop and a knight (along with many pawns. But then, my oppenent made a critical mistake, allowing me to draw. My opponent moved his bishop from d3 to b1... Read more »

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A Stunning Upset

Submitted by benws on Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:00pm.

It's surprising to us when a chess giant (such as boris spassky) falls in a mere 12 moves. But it happened in this game. Spassky commits an oversight that allows Korchnoi to create a nice tactics display. so what do you guys think? are short defe... Read more »

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Watch your tactics

Submitted by rubyflyer on Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:58pm.

Before you execute a tactic, you should check it. If it goes against you, you probably shouldn't use it. Here's an example. This puzzle is from the "The Usborne Internet-Linked Complete Book of Chess." After solving this puzzle, check out the ne... Read more »

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tactical puzzle

Submitted by MY_turn on Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:45pm.

black to move  Read more »

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A Pretty Picture

Submitted by benws on Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:49pm.

In this game, Duras ignores the threat to his own king and plunges into a head on attack on his opponent's king. He sticks his pieces into active positions, and rounds off the game with a queen sac. Read more »

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Queen Sac Wins

Submitted by David_Grakovsky on Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:13pm.

Légal Trap, Blackburne Trap, or also known as the Légal Mate is a chess opening trap, characterized by a queen sacrifice followed by checkmate with minor pieces if Black accepts the sacrifice. The trap is named after Sire de Légal (1702-1792) ... Read more »

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The Deadly Queen's Dance... reversed

Submitted by Yima5 on Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:09pm.

A lot of people know about this trick, and even more have gotten it thrown against them. What is it? Something that I refer to as the Deadly Queen's Dance. When white is trying to pull a Scholar's Mate, the queen will generally land on h5 before ... Read more »

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Unbelievable: The Amazing Hydra

Submitted by Vrom on Sun Nov 9, 2008 2:11pm.

Hydra is a chess computer, designed by Dr. Christian Donniger and GM Christopher Lutz. Hydra runs on a 64 node Xeon Cluster. In June 2005, Hydra played a six game match against GM Michael Adams, ranked 7th in the world. Hydra defeated Adams by a s... Read more »

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How to prevent scholar's mate

Submitted by melzerh on Sat Nov 8, 2008 5:48am.

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Queenside Brilliancy

Submitted by benws on Fri Nov 7, 2008 7:29pm.

It's really strange, but some how all my articles keep disappearing from the front page...i wonder who's behind that? (cough) anyway...a game. Read more »

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puzzle...

Submitted by chesslife on Wed Nov 5, 2008 8:11pm.

this is a cool puzzle but its too easy.good luck!                LOL Read more »

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Find the winning mooves for black

Submitted by kumar12 on Sun Nov 2, 2008 2:57pm.

 it is not mine but i got it from internet, nice puzzle, black to moove and win, Read more »

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Nice finishing

Submitted by kumar12 on Sun Nov 2, 2008 6:53am.

This is my first article in chess.com, please excuse me if you find any mistakes, in this game i played white, my opponent chooses to go for philidor, i think you people like game finishing tactic. If u find any good or badmooves in this game ples... Read more »

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Master Class Puzzle

Submitted by Extraordinary on Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:01am.

I decide to share this amazing puzzle with rest of the chess world. Some people thinks, that endgamepuzzles are easy, since you can count evrey move when there is only 5-7 pieces on the board, so I decided to show that it is nonsense. White to mov... Read more »

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Surprise Move

Submitted by Ficheall on Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:57pm.

    Black moves. He plays 1 ... RxB! Read more »

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The Soul of Chess

Submitted by benws on Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:09pm.

A nice demonstration of the power of the pawn. The white f-pawn quickly goes to work by picking off a black rook and then giving itself up (queen sac included) to allow the winning double check checkmate. And for all those people in the US: DON'T... Read more »

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Playing unorthodox chess

Submitted by ShahidAnwer on Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:50am.

Miles was in many ways a controversial figure. Once, in the last round of a tournament with Miles needing a draw for first place, and his opponent wanting a draw for a high placing, he agreed a draw without playing any moves. The arbiter decided t... Read more »

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The pin and scewer

Submitted by melzerh on Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:10pm.

A pin is when you keep a piece in place, so your opponet doesn't lose a better piece like so:             A scewer is when you opponet is force to move a better piece, and then you take a less value like this: Read more »

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A Historic Match

Submitted by benws on Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:49am.

The telegraph match of 1890/91 between Chigorin and Steinitz was probably one of the more interesting ones in history. This game, the first of the two, demonstrates Chigorin's unique style of play. Read more »

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The power of a passed pawn at the seventh row!

Submitted by mauerblume on Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:50am.

We all like to have a passed pawn in our games. A passed pawn in our opponent`s hands may be not to our pleasure. So we should try to get him ourselves as a measure to set our opponent under pressure.- When the passed pawn comes more forward, th... Read more »

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Back Home

Submitted by benws on Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:55am.

A nice game by Kasparov, in which he makes use of Karpov's play and forces his pieces back to his own 1st rank. Next he forces a favorable trade of pieces (with the help of a passed pawn), and despite being down in material, finds a winning combin... Read more »

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Flash of Inspiration

Submitted by benws on Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:28pm.

The preliminary tournament of St Petersburg 1914 brought with it many great games, such as this one: (http://blog.chess.com/benws/double-bishop-strike), but the one that beat it out for the first brilliancy prize was this nice tactics battle by Ca... Read more »

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