The document provides an overview of an upcoming special issue about the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway. It includes previews of articles on chess openings and endgames as well as puzzles. The document encourages readers to submit their own games and feedback.
The document provides an overview of an upcoming special issue about the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway. It includes previews of articles on chess openings and endgames as well as puzzles. The document encourages readers to submit their own games and feedback.
The document provides an overview of an upcoming special issue about the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway. It includes previews of articles on chess openings and endgames as well as puzzles. The document encourages readers to submit their own games and feedback.
The document provides an overview of an upcoming special issue about the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway. It includes previews of articles on chess openings and endgames as well as puzzles. The document encourages readers to submit their own games and feedback.
every two years, will be the subject of our next issue.
In this issue: 2 In the Beginning by Igor Sukhin 3 Chess Cake for the Winner - Hou Yifan 4 The First Queen Sacrifice - Almost by FST Kevin O’Connell 5 Glossary A-C 8 Puzzles by FST Kevin O’Connell
On the left, a red robot, carrying a
black bishop. In the cafe at the planetarium of the University of Tromso.
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FIDE Chess in Schools In the Beginning Chess Camp 4 by Igor Sukhin King + queen vs. King + queen In the Beginning – 233 (Chess Camp 4-326) In the Beginning – 235 (Chess Camp 4-349) White to move. White wins Black’s queen. Black to move. Checkmate in two moves.
In the Beginning – 234 (Chess Camp 4-342) In the Beginning – 236 (Chess Camp 4-355) Black to move. Make a draw. White to move. Checkmate in two moves.
233. 1. f1-a6+. 235. 1... h4−h2+ 2. g1-f1 h2−f2#.
234. 1... g8−h8+. 236. 1. h5−e5+.
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FIDE Chess in Schools Chess Cake for the winner - Hou Yifan Women’s World Champion Hou Yifan won the Lopota (Georgia) Grand Prix tournament, two whole points ahead of her nearest rival. She was undefeated in the tournament, scoring seven wins and four draws. The first prize was €10,000 of a total prize fund of €60,000.
The winner’s cake arrives.
You would not want to meet Alexandra
Ablaze with sparklers. Kosteniuk with that look and that knife on a dark night! It looks good and no doubt tasted good as well. Photos by Alina L’Ami (ChessBase).
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FIDE Chess in Schools The First Queen Sacrifice – Almost by FST Kevin O’Connell A little over 500 years ago, the Queen became powerful. Instead of moving just one square at a time, she began to move as she does today.
1.e2−e4 d7−d5 2.e4xd5 d8xd5
6... g4xd1 (6... g4−e6! is necessary,
but white has a big advantage after 7. c4xe6 f7xe6 8.0-0+−) 7. c4xf7#
d'Amor (Chess of Love), a poem featuring a chess game. It was written by Francesc 6.h2−h3 de Castellví, Bernat Fenollar, and Narcís de Vinyoles in the late 15th century (after 6. f3−e5! 1480) in Valencia, Spain.
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FIDE Chess in Schools A Chess Glossary – A to C There are lots of special terms that we use in the chess world. You may not be familiar with them all, so this time we start an alphabetical glossary that may help you.
ANALYSIS - an examination of a position and "variations" (sequences of possible moves).
ATTACK - a move which threatens something (checkmate or a profitable capture).
ATTACK (DISCOVERED) - a move which opens a line, uncovering an attack by another piece.
ATTACK (DOUBLE) - a simultaneous attack against two separate targets, an important subset is the FORK (one man attacking two) and I have coined the term "trident" for a piece which attacks three men simultaneously.
BACK RANK - the RANK on which the pieces stand at the beginning of the game, so the first rank (White) and the eighth rank (Black). Often the scene of a dramatic CORRIDOR mate.
BISHOP - a piece with many different names, for example "fool" or "jester" (French), "runner" (German), "elephant" (Russian), etc. It is represented by the letter B or by the figurine L.
BLINDNESS - "chess blindness" when a player fails to see something that is obvious to you or me. It is also when you fail to see something that is obvious to me. It even applies when I fail to see something obvious.
BLITZ - probably the fastest sport on earth. The standard format is five minutes on the clock (for each player) in which to complete the entire game. The pieces really fly (literally sometimes). In the 1990s a tie-break version was introduced - 6 minutes for White against 5 for Black, Black getting "draw odds" (meaning that White had to win, any other result, stalemate for example, counting as a loss).
CAPTURE - If a piece moves to a square occupied by an opponent’s piece the latter is
captured and removed from the chessboard as part of the same move. NB: Cannibalism is outlawed - it is not permitted to move a piece to a square occupied by a piece of the same colour.
CASTLING - the modern successor, firmly established by the end of the 16th century, to the King's Leap. Castling is a move of the king and either rook of the same colour along the player’s first rank, counting as a single move of the king and executed as follows: the king is transferred from its original square two squares towards the rook on its original square, then that rook is transferred to the square the king has just crossed. The right to castle has been lost: a if the king has already moved, or b. with a rook that has already moved. Castling is prevented temporarily:
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FIDE Chess in Schools a. if the square on which the king stands, or the square which it must cross, or the square which it is to occupy, is attacked by one or more of the opponent’s pieces, or b. if there is any piece between the king and the rook with which castling is to be effected.
CENTRE - usually the four squares d4, e4, d5, e5.
CHECK - moving a piece (or pawn) so that it directly attacks the enemy king (or moving a piece off a line, revealing such a direct attack from another, stationary piece). It is not permitted to move one's own king onto a square that is attacked by an enemy unit, so the kings can never stand immediately next to each other (even though I frequently see that, together with positions of "mutual checkmate" and the suchlike in games played by beginners).
CHECK (DISCOVERED) - moving a piece off a line, revealing an attack on the enemy king from a piece placed further back on that line. A particular kind of DISCOVERED ATTACK.
CHECK (DOUBLE) - a move which checks the enemy king from the arrival square and reveals a Discovered Check (Check, Discovered). The extra check generally increases the destructive power of the tactic.
CHECK (PERPETUAL) - an unstoppable sequence of checks which must, sooner or later lead to a draw either by three-fold repetition of psition (see DRAW) or under the 50-move rule (see DRAW).
CHECKMATE - one player's king is in check and he/she cannot capture the checking piece, nor place anything between that piece and the king nor move the king. Checkmate ends the game. In theory "mutual" checkmate is impossible but positions such as the following are fairly common in games between beginners. This circumstance is not entirely foreseen by the Laws of Chess. My own practice has been to declare the game drawn. Patrick Wolff in his The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess tells a nice story about Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan. Yasser explained that "... many years ago, when I was a kid playing in my first tournament, I played a master. And just when I was about to promote my pawn, he checkmated me. But before he could say anything, I promoted my pawn to a king." Wolff asked "Did he tell you that was against the rules?" to which the well- known Grandmaster, once of Nottingham England, replied "Nah. He just checkmated my other king too, and that was that."
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FIDE Chess in Schools CHESSBOARD - usually abbreviated just to "board," this consists of a grid (8x8) of squares which are alternately light and dark (often referred to as white and black). The players sit opposite one another, each with a light square in their right-hand corner of the board. The geography of the board: straight lines directly between the players (up-down on a demo board) are called "files" (an example is e1-e2-e3-e4-e5-e6-e7-e8 - see the Diagram), lines from side to side (left-right on a demo board) are called "ranks" (for example a3-b3-c3- d3-e3-f3-g3-h3) while diagonal lines are called ... "diagonals" (for example b1-c2-d3-e4-f5-g6- h7). When referring to one of these lines it's name is usually abbreviated to "e-file" or "third rank" or "b1-h7 diagonal." It is quite remarkable that most of the time, if you see a chess position set up in a shop window, there will be a dark square in the right-hand corner, after all some of the people setting up these positions know how to play chess and for the rest it should be a 50-50 chance (but seems to come out like the buttered toast and carpet experiment). Incidentally, photographers have a good excuse if their photos show the board the wrong way round - newspaper and magazine editors often choose to invert the negative (because they think it looks better that way round), the net result of which is the same as if you were to stick a diagram to the inside of a window, then go outdoors and look in through the window (you'll find that the diagram still sort of makes sense except that the board appears to be set up the wrong way round. The most common kind of board is a "roll-up" made of vinyl. [Tip: roll it up with the squares on the outside - when you unroll it, it will lie flat, or at least flatter than if you do it the other way.]
CHESSMEN - both pieces and pawns.
CIS - FIDE's Chess in Schools Commission.
CLOSED FILE - a file on which both players have a pawn or pawns.
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FIDE Chess in Schools Puzzles selected by FST & FM Kevin O’Connell (www.kochess.com)
1 Black to move. 3 Black to play.
All these positions are from one game Jake BAINS-GILLESPIE – Bridie O’LEARY (or possible variations): British u11 Championship, Aberystwyth 2014
