Anastasia's Mate
Anastasia’s Mate consists of a Knight Rook mating pattern where the King is forced to the h7 square usually as a result of a Queen sacrifice. This is the first in a series of common checkmate patterns.
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Recommended Chess Book Reading List by Ratings
The following list of books has been compiled from a number of web resources. 1200-1400 1) Chess Tactics for Students by John Bain 2) Logical Chess Move by Move by Irving Chernev 3) Polgar’s 5334 Chess Problems by Polgar 4) Winning Chess Tactics by Seirawan 5) Pandolfini’s Endgame Course by Bruce Pandolfini 6) Chess Fundamentals…
Chess Imbalances – The Silman Thinking Technique
In How to Reassess your Chess Jeffery Silman describes how to create a plan in the middle game based on his set of chess imbalances. The list of imbalances includes: Chess Imbalances 1) Superior minor piece 2) pawn structure 3) space 4) material 5) control of key file or square 6) lead in development 7)…
Chess Course
This Chess Course is broken down into 86 Lessons each lasting 60 minutes. Lessons should be taken a minimum of 2 times per week. The entire course lasts anywhere from 21-43 weeks.