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Posted on September 27th, 2008
Zugzwang is a position in which every move would make the position worse, and the player that has to move would be better off if he could pass and not move at all. But in chess no such thing as skipping a move is allowed. You are forced to move. In the picture above whoever [...] Deflection is a tactic that forces a piece of your opponent to leave the square, row or file where it has to remain, because it is needed there to defend something. This chess term is rather similar to luring, but in luring a piece has to be positioned at the right square to enable an [...] Most of the time it is an advantage that it is your turn to move, but sometimes it is a very serious disadvantage. In chess this is known as Zugzwang. This word Zugzwang originates from the German and means something like “forced to move”. It is your move and in chess you have to move [...] One of the most used examples of the classical bishop sacrifice is taken from the game Edgard Colle – John O’Hanlon, Nice 1930. This is rather strange because in this game the normal preconditions before sacrificing the bishop aren’t even met. Some chess players and teachers even considered the sacrifice in this game as unsound. [...] Posted on April 21st, 2008
In some of the previous lessons we have learned about the pin and how we could make use of a pin in order to win a piece. All these lessons started with a position in which two enemy pieces were aligned with each other. In order to create an absolute pin the opponent’s king has [...] Posted on January 13th, 2008
In one of the previous lessons we have learned about the double attack. But sometimes your opponent will be not so cooperative that he is positioning his pieces in such a way that you are able to attack two pieces at the same time. With a supporting Knight on c7, d6, f6 or g7 instead [...] This chess lesson will be focussed on Interference, also known as blocking the defender. The general idea is to block the line between the defender and the piece or square it is trying to defend. Posted on March 27th, 2007
In the skewer two pieces in a line are attacked by a queen, rook or bishop. A skewer is very similar to the pin, but in case of the skewer the most valuable piece is the front piece. So instead of being pinned the piece has to step out of the way allowing the piece [...] A discovered attack occurs when a player moves one of his pieces out of the way of his Queen, Bishop or Rook to reveal an attack on one of his opponent’s pieces. Because the piece moved can make a independent threat the result may also be a double attack. In the next diagram white’s rook [...] |
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