Category: Entertainment
When Carlsen Is in Charge, Reality Outpaces Imagination!
On 10 September 2022, I published a post on my website with the comical title 2033: „The secret of the best first move revealed! Neural network, artificial intelligence and quantum computer all agree: 1.h2-h4!“ Well, now please watch a video of one game, which I have selected from among all the others—most of which, of course, are full of praise for the winner… Continue reading
Competition – Fun (4) – Solution
The holiday competition has its winners! Both solvers and other readers can view the solution to the splendid study by Vitaly Alexandrovich Chekhover, which even chess engines cannot crack. We also present the solution to a lesser-known humorous problem by Paul Lamford... Continue reading
Competition – Fun (5)
The fifth part of our competition focuses especially on one tactical device, which you have certainly used countless times in your own battles over the board, though probably with less dramatic effect than in the two examples we present here... Continue reading
Competition – Fun (3) – Solution
Below, not only competitors can acquaint themselves with the correct solution to the third problem. This time, solvers were even a little more successful than in the previous task!. Continue reading
Competition – Fun (4)
Our website will fill your holiday time not only with the continuation of the solving competition, but we are also adding a humorous, though by no means easy, puzzle. Indeed, we cannot rule out that you, dear reader, have already come across it, but on the other hand, we believe it will brighten the leisure moments of most of you!. Continue reading
Competition – Fun (2) – Solution
You can now see the correct solution to the second competition problem. More than ten of you, including several readers from Slovakia and Russia, successfully tackled this truly difficult task... Continue reading
Competition – Fun (3)
Will you, dear readers, try your hand at the third problem of the long-term competition? The excellent study, whose author we will keep anonymous for now, can certainly be solved by a strong practical player; however, less experienced chess players can also succeed! By simple elimination and, of course, the necessary patience, you can work your way to the solution just as well... Continue reading
Competition – Fun (1) – Solution
Here, dear readers, you can view or compare your solutions to both the first prize competition problem and the other tactical tests... And, as is our custom, we are adding something extra to the solutions. We will pause—though not for the first time—at the correct technique for calculating variations: a complex position awaits you in the game! Which candidate moves should you consider first in your mind?... This article also, after some time, includes another warning against the ‚pawn-grabbing style of play‘ in the opening... Continue reading
Competition – Fun (2)
Our competition for attractive prizes continues! This time, dear readers, you can focus on just one study, which may well ‚give you a hard time‘. The reward for successfully solving the problem, however, may be—not only, as in the first part of the competition, a possible luxury prize in the form of a product from National Pen Corporation, but also—and this we can guarantee—an exceptionally pleasant feeling. You may have seen a great many studies in your chess life, but something this enchanting...? Continue reading
Competition – Fun (1)
The following section is intended primarily to give you a break from your daily duties, but we also hope it can bring you—right to your home, your computer or your chessboard—fun and challenge, learning and beauty, the joy of solving for some quite difficult, for others easier diagrams and problems; the chance to win a selected prize if you manage to solve just one, but the hardest, final task! All of the above, according to your kind choice! Continue reading
Chess quote
Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chess quote
Chess, like music and love, has the power to make a person happy.
Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch