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White to play and draw

White to play and draw

White to play. Can he win?

White to play and mate in three moves.

White to play and mate in two moves.

White to play and mate in two moves.

White to play and mate in four moves.

That was the chess year that was. Not a good one - not on my side of the board at any rate. the best I've ever had. My club season ended...

White to play and win Yanofsky-Dulanto, Buenos Aires Olympiad 1939 "... White's queen is attacked and it appears that any attempt ...

Hurrah! We've finished 2008 with a bang, with our first team in London League Division One beating Cavendish Seconds 6½ to 4½ with one ...

J Healy V M Lia, Barbican Open - 1980. White (to move) is a piece down and threatened with exchange of queens. If White moves his queen away...

606 puzzles for chess nuts , Wilson and Alberston, Sterling, 2008. [Bad book covers index ]

... when there's so much of it I'm sure we've all picked up a textbook and promised ourselves we'll rigorously work our way ...

[Reading Tom's piece on Monday about the famous Fischer-Larsen game, I remembered that I wrote about the game - saying something a bit ...

I have pretty exacting standards when it comes to TV. Does it have aliens? Does it have guns? If the answers are yes and yes, chances are I...

...so I'll share with you this ending that appeared in Chess Today last Sunday. Rowe v Roussel-Roozmon, Jamaica v Canada, Dresden Olymp...

Chessbase's recent article about the philosophy of chess improvement  was loooooong on wordy analysis, short on practical advice. Noneth...

If you were, this Sunday morning, to take a stroll to your local bookshop, find a copy of Letters to the Editor 08 and turn to page 99 you ...

"J Healy v T Duncan, Islington Club Championships - 1997. The black knight attacks two pawns, so the obvious drawing line for white is ...

This and that for your attention this Friday morning. We learn from the ECF that Bob Wade's funera l will take place on Tuesday next w...