White wins this position by creating a passed pawn on the Kingside. Note that if the Black pawn would be on d3 instead of c3, the game would be a theoretical draw. Copy the FEN position 4k3/1pp2ppp/p1p5/8/4P3/8/PPP2PPP/4K3 w – – 0 0 and play this position against an engine. NOTE: There was an issue with…
White to move Highlight below for answer: 15.Rxf6 gxf6 16.Bh3+ Rd7 17.Bxd7+ Kxd7 18.Qg4+ Ke8 19.Nd5 Qd8 20.Qe6+ Kf8 21.Bh6#
It is very important that you have mastered exercises 1-7 before starting on this exercise. For exercises 1-7 visit the chess exercises page. Without looking at the board, tell all the squares controlled by: – a knight on c6 – a knight on f3 – a knight on b2 – a knight on c5 –…
(adapted by Herman Grooten) The following thought process which is recommended by Karpov and Mazukevich is used to detect the important features of an arbitrary position in order to devise a plan that conforms to the positional assessment derived by using this thought process. This thinking process is based on 7 criteria in which the…
It is very important that you have mastered exercises 1-6 before starting on this exercise. For exercises 1-6 visit the chess exercises page. Without looking at the board, tell all the squares controlled by: – a knight on c3 – a knight on e2 – a knight on f6 – a knight on d4
White to move 1. Material: White is up a pawn, that is about to Queen. But White cannot defend it. 2. King safety. White’s King is pinned to the light squared bishop. Black’s King is in no immediate danger. 3. Activity: Black’s rook is more active, and his bishop is not pinned like White’s. 4.…
This content was buried in a post for Kotov’s Method for Chess Improvement, and since it is such an important chess improvement tool, I figured I would promote it to its own post. Stoyko Exercises from Dan Heisman’s Exercises page A summary of Stoyko exercise: 1) Find a fairly complicated position 2) Get out a…
It is very important that you have mastered exercises 1-5 before starting on this exercise. For exercises 1-5 visit the chess exercises page. Without looking at the board, tell all the squares controlled by: – a bishop on b2 – a bishop on b7 – a bishop on a5 – a bishop on h4 –…
For exercises 1-4 visit the chess exercises page. It is very important that you have mastered exercises 1-4 before starting on this exercise. Without looking at the board, tell all the squares controlled by: – a bishop on g2 – a bishop on g7 – a bishop on e5 – a bishop on b7 –…
Previous Exercises: – Exercise 1 – Exercise 2 – Exercise 3 For exercise 4, using the board look at all of the squares controlled by: – the f1-bishop developed to e2 (place only this bishop on the board) – the f1-bishop developed to d3, c4, b5 – the f8-bishop developed on e7, d6, c5, b4…