By Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky What Makes a Draw? Insufficient Material and Equal Positions Not every game of chess will end up with a win for one of the pl…
If the bishops are of the same color squares, then checkmate is physically impossible
Professor: Hello, class. I see you’re back for more after last week’s discussion. Zephyr: We certainly are. Hale: You had me thinking of fortresses all…
Thomas: It’s nice, though it’s practically the same problem.
Alice Lee is a chess prodigy who became an International Master and Woman Grandmaster at just 13! Learn more about her in this Spotlight article.
She reached WGM and IM at the same time, at the 2023 Canadian Transnational Championship
The fifth edition of the ChessKid European Team Festival took place on April 30th, featuring some amazing games between kids from France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg. Which country won, and which player remained undefeated throughout the entire event? Read this and find out!
for the future and I hope Julia will remember this game and avoid repeating the same
Learning the history of chess may be interesting, but learning how to set up a chess board and pieces is the first step to actually playing chess! For best r…
After several tries, add one piece at a time and play the pawn game (with the same
Imagine if FunMasterMike was your teacher at school! A group of lucky kids in Canada got to see what that would be like as Mike returned to his roots and taught chess to their class.
They actually assumed that Mike must have a twin brother who sounds exactly the same
The 2022 K-12 National Chess Championships were held in the Maryland National Harbor from December 9-11. In this article, I will be talking about the experience I had in the event and showing one of my important games that led me to winning my second national title.
This tournament has 7 rounds in which you can only play opponents that are in the same
A tactic is a short-term attack, such as a fork, pin, skewer, or other kind of attack that takes place over a few moves. Learn some practical tactics, and observe how the more difficult tactics in chess are built from the blocks of the simple patterns.
Tactics: Double Attack FM Mike Klein shows you how to attack two enemies at the same
Professor: Welcome, class. Are you ready for some chess? Class: Yes we are, Professor. Professor: I thought today we’d take it easy and look at a few t…
An earlier work inspired the same love for endgame stratagems is Jenö Bán’s “The
Checkmate Betul is a grassroots initiative launched to bring the game of chess to girls in rural India, where opportunities to learn and play have historically been scarce. Through a partnership with ChessKid, we are equipping 75 students in Betul, Madhya Pradesh, with Gold memberships. Find out more in this article!
At the same time, UNICEF data shows that 72% of rural girls drop out before Grade
