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The defending king (White in this diagram) is on the queening square of the pawn (or adjacent to it). The pawn can be on any file. The opposing pawn has not yet reached the defender's third rank (its sixth rank). The opposing king is beyond the defender's third rank. The defender's rook is on the third rank, keeping the opposing king off that rank.
While a chess puzzle is any puzzle involving aspects of chess, a chess problem is an arranged position with a specific task to be fulfilled, such as White mates in n moves. Chess problems are also known as chess compositions because the positions are specially devised, rather than arising from actual games. Chess problems are divided into ...
Richard Réti. The Réti endgame study is a chess endgame study by Richard Réti.It was published in 1921 in Kagans Neueste Schachnachrichten.It demonstrates how a king can make multiple threats and how it can take more than one path to a given location, using the same number of moves.
Philidor's mate, also known as Philidor's legacy, is a checkmating pattern that ends in smothered mate. This method involves checking with the knight forcing the king out of the corner of the board, moving the knight away to deliver a double check from the queen and knight, sacrificing the queen to force the rook next to the king, and mating with the knight.
The zwischenzug (German: pronounced [ˈtsvɪʃənˌtsuːk], "intermediate move"; also called an in-between move) is a chess tactic in which a player, instead of playing the expected move (commonly a recapture), first interposes another move posing an immediate threat that the opponent must answer, and only then plays the expected move.
The Definitive Guide to Horde Chess: Openings, strategies and tactics for White and Black, a theory book on Horde Chess; Dusany's Chess by Hans Bodlaender, The Chess Variant Pages; Lord Dunsany's Chess a simple program by Ed Friedlander ; Dunsany's Chess playable online at Green Chess; Horde Chess Blog, a blog about the Horde variant
Lichess (/ ˈ l iː tʃ ɛ s /; LEE-ches) [3] [4] is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play rated games.