For more than a century, the line known today as the Halloween Gambit was an entertaining option in casual play, but received minimal attention. Wikipedia ...

After school clubs run October to April. Saint George's School, where I have been coaching for 13 years, meets twice per week, but the children are divided ...

Twenty years ago, I created a series of scholastic chess awards for young chess players. The awards are named for the pieces in order of value: pawn, ...

As noted in “Pawn Award”, I created my awards based youth chess curriculum twenty years ago. It provides structure to lessons in after school clubs and ...

In the Eastern Washington Open last month, I profited from errors my opponents made while attempting to maintain an advantage. In the first round, it ...

This problem took me far longer to solve than I care to admit, but represents a rare success among those I've attempted in a book new to my shelves.White ...

This position appears in Checkmates and Tactics (2019), a book that consists of exercises that I have used with scholastic players since 2006. It is ...

This morning’s tactics session as suboptimal. After solving the first one correctly, I did so poorly that I dropped my rating 98 points from 3038 to 2940. ...

This morning in an online 10 minute game, I knew I had an advantage, but suffered a failure of confidence without a clear checkmate. I forced a draw. The ...

In a ten minute game this morning, I struggled most of the game for equality. When my opponent erred in opting for a rook ending, rather than knight vs. ...

After losing a tense and interesting struggle in round four, my fifth round opponent in the Eastern Washington Open perceived an attack where none existed ...

Chess is a game of skill. In contrast to games with cards or dice, chess players win because they demonstrated greater skill than their opponent. Random ...