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...
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...
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...
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
- a bishop on d4
- a bishop on...
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
- a bishop on d2
- a bishop on...
