This article is by WIM Alexey Root In this endgame, you (white) want to promote your pawn. If you promote to a queen or to a rook, you can win the game…
Or, if you don’t have a sibling (or don’t like your sibling), the white pawn is your
How to make checkmate with only a Queen and a King, by Ms Jessica Martin (aka BoundingOwl) The queen is my favourite piece. She is the most powerful pi…
When you get down to the end of a chess game and you have one queen left to nothing
Yolanda Peña is the chess coach for Kahn Elementary and Arcadia Park Elementary in Dallas, TX. Here she shares the success of her chess clubs using Ch…
For example, I have students in chess club in grades first through fifth.
Hi kids! It’s Mrs Jessica E Prescott, the BoundingOwl, with some Solitaire Chess for you. You need a pencil and paper. I will wait…my cat…
Don’t scroll down until you have written down A, B, or C… 2.
What if I gave you a mate in 4? That’d be straight up hard! What if someone suggested to you that there was checkmate in 4 moves in your game? &n…
I bet you would have to work to find it!
By Scott Talley It had the makings of a brief encounter, but when Tamyre Watkins and the chess coach Kevin Fite came together in the office of Sampson…
Fite that day my grades could have dropped, or I could have even been kicked out
Anastasia’s Wizard’s Checkmate… by Ms Jessica Martin (aka BoundingOwl) One day, I suppose there will be a Harry Potter Checkmate. Did you see that li…
Anastasia Romanov’s Family Have you made your own checkmate yet?
WCM Claudia Munoz is a new Ambassador for ChessKid.com. You’ll read about her chess career here, learn tips, and be on the way to following in her footsteps….
The tournament information said that each state should have a qualifier in order
Professor: Well class, it’s all over. Zephyr: You mean life itself? Professor: No, just the class tournament. Zephyr: Oh that. Hale: I thought it was a prett…
Thomas: And she did have to beat Wei in the last round.
A question and answer column by FIDE Master Andy Lee. Q: What are the rules for castling? And why would I want to castle, anyway? — Tyler…
glossary, but here they are with some illustrative diagrams: 1) To castle, you must have
