Tactics

Solving Tactical Problems

Submitted by DrDave on

You can always win material or get a checkmate if your opponent overlooks your threat. But there are some threats your opponent cannot get out of, even if they notice them.

  Problems can be solved because either you have:

Visualization/Analysis in Chess

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From: rook@IslandNet.com (Dan Scoones)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc
Subject: Re: Visualization/Analysis in Chess
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 07:43:26 GMT
Organization: Island Net in Victoria, B.C. Canada
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Message-ID: <32e321e0.46454218@News.IslandNet.com>
References: <5bhfs6$9k0@world2.bellatlantic.net>

On Wed, 15 Jan 97 02:36:49 GMT, enyoung@bellatlantic.net (Eugene N.
Young) wrote:

>... how does a good chess player calculate mentally, ie,

The Chess Scene

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This section of Chess Scene is intended to provide a forum for news about Chess Clubs around the world, amateur events and the progress of us merely mortal chess players towards immortal heights!

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Chess Tactics Quotes

Submitted by DrDave on

Sir Peter Medawar once remarked, rather testily:
"the spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytic thought".
[A sentiment to be found in his splendid demolition of Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man, first printed in Mind, then collected in The Art of the Soluble]

 

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