Josef Kling and Bernhard Horwitz, Chess Studies, or Endings of Games (London, 1851) was one of the earliest books to emphasize chess endings. It was ...
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A few years ago, I created a database of positions from my own games where I or my opponent, and sometimes both, had tossed away a win or draw in the ...
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 ...
My own failures often become lessons for my students. Tuesday morning I had a winning position in what should have been a drawn ending, misplayed it, and ...
On Tuesday, I showed a short game to my young students that is the source for exercise 19 in Checkmates and Tactics (2019), a book that presents 150 ...
As tournament director for my city’s youth events, I see a lot of examples of basic skills not yet learned.In one game today, I spent quite a bit of time ...
Young chess players are quick to attack pieces directly. Learning to anticipate the opponent's plans and prevent them does not come naturally. In my ...