Jonathan Schrantz challenges you to find the best move. Find a mate or win material with pins, forks, skewers, and more. If you find a good move, see if you can find an even better one.
2016.11.06
Dennis LaRue walks viewers through a non-Romantic game from the Romantic era: E. Williams-Staunton. This was part of their match to determine the third place of the first international chess tournament.
2017.02.07
Elijah Williams vs Howard Staunton, London (1851): B21 Sicilian, Grand Prix attack
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Jonathan Schrantz closes the book on the Semi-Slav Defense series with the Anti-Moscow Variation. See demonstrations taken from real, strong games.
Grandmaster Denes Boros shows the kids positions where a windmill attack can occur. Windmill attacks are performed by bishops and rooks and are a series of discovered checks and captures.
In three points; dedication, love of chess, and consistency!
Let’s face it. Everyone likes to win. Winning is fun. It fills you with joy and pride, and gives you bragging rights. Unfortunately, too many chess players, coaches, and parents put way too much emphasis on winning.
Happy New Year, chess fans! Welcome back from the holiday break. This first research blog in 2017 discusses the K-12 reform movement known as “standards-based education” and how it is being adopted within the chess-in-schools movement.
The two highest ranked players in the World under age 21 recently played a match. Hungary’s Richard Rapport and the Chinese player Wei Yi played from 20th to 23rd December in Yancheng, China.
The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis (CCSCSL) prides itself in empowering local students to succeed both in academics and in the game of chess. Through its in-school and after-school programs, the club reaches nearly 4,000 students each semester with roughly equal participation by male and female students.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,…” Thus began the famous opening paragraph of Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities.
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