Test Your Chess Skill

[♫anna♫]

Oct 27, 2015 1:39:10 GMT Scottish Lassie said:

Oct 27, 2015 1:16:47 GMT ♫anna♫ said:

grandgames.net/en/rules/chess

Hi Scottish Lassie
In the position I posted the Queen's are already gone from the board. Queen exchanges are often inevitable at some point in the game. The moves of chess pieces are summed up on the link and image above.

Hi Anna, so the pieces that I think are queens must then be kings.Thanks for the post but it is all too small for me to make out what the pieces are and I'm using a magnifying glass besides my reading spectacles. Ihave set it to large but it doesn't make any difference. Everybodies posts and my own are at their smallest.

I hope you can watch this beginner's chess video Scottish Lassie .
You can enlarge the image I posted by clicked it. Images are automatically downsized on this forum.

[Scottish Lassie]

Oct 27, 2015 8:33:07 GMT ♫anna♫ said:

Oct 27, 2015 1:39:10 GMT Scottish Lassie said:

Hi Anna, so the pieces that I think are queens must then be kings.Thanks for the post but it is all too small for me to make out what the pieces are and I'm using a magnifying glass besides my reading spectacles. Ihave set it to large but it doesn't make any difference. Everybodies posts and my own are at their smallest.

I hope you can watch this beginner's chess video Scottish Lassie .
You can enlarge the image I posted by clicked it. Images are automatically downsized on this forum.

Hi Anna, thanks for trying to help me but only ever see a blank space when videos are posted, I'm very lucky if I'm able to use links.

[♫anna♫]

Oct 26, 2015 22:00:16 GMT kronks said:

rook to d3 forcing white knight to take that rook and occupy d3,
them bishops to e6 mate!!
Clever stuff!

Excellent kronks . This one stumped me and I had to look at the solution. Not easy to spot and White has a good game if you don't stop him now. An unusual motive that your instincts might not sense here.

[♫anna♫]

Oct 27, 2015 10:31:17 GMT Scottish Lassie said:

Oct 27, 2015 8:33:07 GMT ♫anna♫ said:

I hope you can watch this beginner's chess video Scottish Lassie .
You can enlarge the image I posted by clicked it. Images are automatically downsized on this forum.

Hi Anna, thanks for trying to help me but only ever see a blank space when videos are posted, I'm very lucky if I'm able to use links.

Here's a larger image of knight moves Scottish Lassie .

They can hop over other pieces and if an enemy piece is on the landing square it can be captured. The knight cannot occupy a square with a piece of it's own color though.

[kronks]

Oct 28, 2015 8:27:00 GMT ♫anna♫ said:

Oct 26, 2015 22:00:16 GMT kronks said:

rook to d3 forcing white knight to take that rook and occupy d3,
them bishops to e6 mate!!
Clever stuff!

Excellent kronks . This one stumped me and I had to look at the solution. Not easy to spot and White has a good game if you don't stop him now. An unusual motive that your instincts might not sense here.

I didn't have too much trouble with that one but am baffled by some of the others!
I guess you do not normally more a piece to where it can immediately be taken,
but that is what you have to do.

[kronks]

Oct 15, 2015 23:01:14 GMT ♫anna♫ said:

Corresponding squares!


White to play and draw.

If White goes after Black's pawns while Black is threatening the White pawn White will loose. It's Chess not Pacman. Therefore White's King has to keep going to correct square to meet Black's multiple threats. Finding the 1st move isn't easy, if you're not familiar with the defensive strategy.

kronks Big Lin mikemarshall

I still can't do this though, however I find if the computer
plays white I can't win against it,  however when I play white
I can't seem to manage it I always lose as I can't quite pick
out the right move, maybe I could with more practice but it is difficult
to play when I switch from white to black I can't remember what the
computer did and I find it very difficult switching sides mentally it just sends
my head spinning!!

I just can't get to grip with those situations as there are so many moves
involved, indeed I tend to try and avoid such situations but maybe I should
instead get more practise on  them otherwise I will not improve.
I will have to study it more and figure out/learn the strategies.

[♫anna♫]

1D

kronks blc Big Lin mikemarshall this position was from my last tournament game. What's your opinion? Could White have defended better? Is it a draw by perpetual check? Kronks what does the computer say? My opponent playing White thought he could defend his pawn at d3 with a trap and had just played 1 ) rook to h3. I played rook takes d3 anyway.
1 ) Bishop g4 check ....King to b8
2 ) Rook takes rook d3..Queen to b1 check

2D
3 ) King to e2! ....Queen takes pawn
4 ) King to d1?*....Queen takes Bishop check.
5 ) King to c2**...Queen to e2 check
3C
My opponent resigned in this position. There is no safety on the Queen side. 0-1

Could White have defended better? I thought I had nothing more than a draw by perpetual check and my opponent hoped to win.
Kronks what does your computer say? Does anyone have ideas or suggestions here?

[kronks]

Will have a look at that later Anna when I have more time!

[♫anna♫]

Oct 23, 2015 14:24:40 GMT ♫anna♫ said:

Congrats kronks . Here's the site where I got this position and a detailed explanation.
www.chess.com/blog/PaulEChess/develop-logical-thinking-in-the-endgame-intense-king-and-pawn-study


This corresponding square concept in King + Pawn endgames is like a dance. If Black's king goes to square 3 white's king must go to his corresponding square 3 and Black must never occupy a W square or capture the pawn because White looses then.


mikemarshall Scottish Lassie Big Lin

At the 4 minute 50 seconds mark the position above is discussed by chess expert Peter Lalic.

mikemarshall Scottish Lassie Big Lin blc

[Scottish Lassie]

Dec 25, 2015 13:10:21 GMT ♫anna♫ said:

Oct 23, 2015 14:24:40 GMT ♫anna♫ said:

Congrats kronks . Here's the site where I got this position and a detailed explanation.
www.chess.com/blog/PaulEChess/develop-logical-thinking-in-the-endgame-intense-king-and-pawn-study


This corresponding square concept in King + Pawn endgames is like a dance. If Black's king goes to square 3 white's king must go to his corresponding square 3 and Black must never occupy a W square or capture the pawn because White looses then.


mikemarshall Scottish Lassie Big Lin

At the 4 minute 50 seconds mark the position above is discussed by chess expert Peter Lalic.

mikemarshall Scottish Lassie Big Lin blc

Hi Anna, I'm no doubt being ' picky ' but the word is loses not ' looses ' It seems to be driving me up the wall every time I see it. Which is on other forums as well. I can't understand why this mistake is being made so often?

[Scottish Lassie]

Feb 13, 2015 5:56:59 GMT ♫anna♫ said:

White to play and win material. Can anyone spot White's move that wins a piece?

Hi Anna, I would move the pawn that is nearest to the rook forward to the next square, the black Bishop then takes it, then the rook takes the Bishop and moves it out of the way of the black rook. Still don't remember what direction the different pieces move.