Category: Entertainment
When Carlsen is in charge, reality outpaces imagination!
On 10 September 2022, I published a post on my website with the humorous title 2033: „The secret of the best first move solved! Neural networks, artificial intelligence and quantum computers unanimously declare: 1.h2-h4!“ Now, please watch a video of a game, which I selected from among many others, mostly of course praising the winner... Continue reading
Competition – Entertainment (4) – Solutions
The holiday competition has its winners! Solvers and other readers can view the solution to a brilliant study by Vitalij Alexandrovich Chekhover, which chess engines find challenging. At the same time, we also present the solution to a lesser-known humorous problem by Paul Lamford... Continue reading
Competition – Entertainment (5)
The fifth part of our competition focuses especially on one tactical device that you have certainly used countless times in your games, although probably with less drastic effects than in our two examples here... Continue reading
Competition – Entertainment (3) – Solutions
Below, not only competitors can familiarise themselves with the correct solution to the third task. This time solvers were even more successful than in the previous task!... Continue reading
Competition – Entertainment (4)
During the holiday season, our website will fill your time not only with the continuation of the solving competition but also with a humorous, though by no means easy, problem. In fact, we cannot exclude that the esteemed reader may have already encountered it, but on the other hand, we believe it will brighten your free moments!... Continue reading
Competition – Entertainment (2) – Solutions
Now you can familiarise yourself with the correct solution to the second competition task. More than a dozen of you, including several readers from Slovakia and Russia, successfully tackled a truly difficult problem... Continue reading
Competition – Entertainment (3)
Dear readers, will you try to tackle the third task of the long-term competition? A brilliant study, whose author we will keep anonymous for now, can certainly be solved by a strong practical player; however, less experienced players can also succeed! By mere elimination and, of course, the necessary patience, one can reach the goal just as well... Continue reading
Competition - Entertainment (1) - Solutions
Here, dear readers, you can view or compare your solutions to both the first competition task for prizes and the other tactical tests... And as is our custom, we will add something extra to the solution. We will pause, admittedly not for the first time, on the correct technique of calculating variations: before you in the game stands a complex position! Which considered moves (candidates) should you examine first in your mind?... This article also includes (once again) a warning against the ‚petty-grubbing style of play‘ in the opening... Continue reading
Competition - Entertainment (2)
Our competition for nice 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 task may be, as in the first part of the competition, not only a possible luxury prize in the form of a product from National Pen Corporation, but also – and we can guarantee this – an exceptionally pleasant feeling. You may have seen many studies in your chess life, but something so enchanting...? Continue reading
Competition - Entertainment (1)
The following section is intended primarily to help you relax from your usual daily duties, but at the same time – as we hope – it can bring you entertainment and effort, learning and beauty, joy from solving diagrams – problems that are sometimes quite difficult, sometimes easier; and the chance to win a selected prize if you manage to solve the one, but 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