Last fortnight, we discussed ‘Pattern Recognition in Chess’, aided by basic checkmate patterns like the Back Rank Checkmate with the rook and the Queen. Let us continue where we left off in our ...

Did you now, that on the very 1st move, either side has a choice between 20 possibilities over the chess board? Did you now, that on the very 1st move, either side has a choice between 20 ...

Chess is a two-player board game where each player controls 16 pieces. The goal of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king, which means putting the king in a position where it is in immediate ...

One of my favorite things to do for amusement is solve chess problems, wherein the player is given a scenario on the board and then asked how to go about checkmating the other side within X number of ...