The 'Mad Queen' rules (before these Bishops were capable of only moving two squares diagonally, and the Queen one square diagonally) were introduced to chess during the Renaissance, in Italy, and it was there that one of the first masters was born...
Here is an absolutely amazing game by Emmanuel Lasker. I am not sure as to who his opponent was, but Lasker emerges victorious as White:
Here's the checkmate for the Two Bishops (and King) against lone King): Now comes the most tricky 'basic' checkmate of them all: Bishop and Knight against the King. A very high proportion of strong club pl...
The most basic checkmate of all (save for Queen and Rook, which is practically the same) is the checkmate with two rooks - the King does not even need to participate in the Kinghunt: Checkmate with a Queen...
Here it is: I'll post the solution in a few days.
Here's one of my games from a while back. I was playing a much lower rated opponent, and by keeping things simple and playing logical chess, I was able to win convincingly by take advantage of his mistakes. It is worthwhile noticing that he was th...
Below is a 'classic' game of Karpov that I never truly understood. It is an amazing game, or rather, it had a very amazing move, though not in any positive sense of the word. I'll let you see for yourself. ...
I've always been rather poor at rapidplay, especially bullet and blitz chess. Nevertheless, here's one example of an exception to the rule - at a rapidplay tournament (30 mins each) quite a few years ago now: ...
A few weeks ago, I played this game. Demonstrating the danger of underestimating an opening - and also your opponent. My rating, from quite a few years ago now, since I've stopped competing regularly, was quite a lot lower than my opponent's. Ho...
