Professor: Good afternoon, class. I hope this past week has been spectacular. Zephyr: It was for me. I got to go to a concert. I heard Beethoven’s
I wish I could have been there.
Hikaru Nakamura was a chess prodigy, like Magnus Carlsen and some others such as Paul Morphy and Jose Capablanca. He became a national master of the United S…
Black’s bishop is very strong on d5 and White’s pieces have to defend the f3 pawn
ChessKid returns for its Second Annual
Our plan is to have a minimum of five devices in every classroom available for elementary
Starting in 2016, ChessKid will dedicate one week a year to encouraging chess in schools (in every school) for at least one hour. Taking a page from t…
Our plan is to have a minimum of five devices in every classroom available for elementary
By International Master Bryan Smith I learned chess in my seventh grade math class. My math class was taken over by chess fever – all of the kids played ches…
How could we have been playing for months and not know all the rules?!
Good day, ChessKids! I hope you’ve been practicing! You know that whenever you move a pawn, the game changes fundamentally. That’s because pawns never go bac…
When you have a pawn majority, push your "candidate" pawn.
Learn everything about the fianchetto, an Italian word that chess players use all the time!
To do that, you would have to play 1.g3 first.
Hello chesskids! Today we will learn about holding off the opponent’s attack. Sometimes it is necessary to weaken your king position to improve other aspects…
The following game demonstrates these principles: That exciting game may have
A note from FunMasterMike: I hosted one of my mini-camps this past weekend and many kids with very high ratings entered king-and-pawn endings but made mistak…
The knights have been traded, so now we have the promised king-and-pawn endgame.
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