The One Rook Attack by WebMaster Learn a new chess attack with this Problem Set! Did you know that the way a chess game usually goes, a single rook…
Have you seen what a normal "castle" for a king looks like?
Professor: Bonjour, class. Class: Bonjour, to you as well, Professor. Lucian: What’s with the French? Thomas: Were you trying to confuse us? …
Lucian: I don’t have to pronounce it the French way.
This article is by WIM Alexey Root Previously we learned the values of the bishop, rook, and queen. Just as for those three pieces, the values of the kn…
A king cannot be traded, so we don’t have to worry about what he is worth!
Hello and welcome to the third of three articles on how to play the Stonewall Dutch. The Dutch is a fun and easy, attacking opening to play against 1. d4, 1….
That way, your pieces have a better chance of working together well.
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…
Lucian: It’s what they have at a zoo. Ryan: Thanks for being so informative.
Hi Parents and Coaches! Today I will describe a lesson I often teach to beginners in either chess camps or individual lessons. This would be for children who…
Sometimes you may have to just show them this move, while pointing out that it opens
This is Christopher Yoo. The Californian is now in the record books. He looks like an ordinary kid, just like every other ChessKid, but he has big news. …
I’m sure many of you have parents that help you with your chess or at least support
In Part 1 we saw the beginning of the game Rotlewi-Rubinstein. Not a whole lot has happened, but wait until you see the second part of the game! Rotlewi made…
But he wasn’t going to have any of that!
Are you the team from Alabama? I kept hearing this question during the weekend of elementary nationals, and I realized others were noticing what …
Looking at each individual kid’s rating in that section, one would not have expected
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
