Author: poc
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Chess Olympiad Day 1
The main festival of chess, the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, has just begun in Budapest, Hungary. In Day 1, Ireland faced a relatively well-known opponent, Fiji, in the first round […]
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Smothered mate
“The smothered mate is a most beautiful kind of mate, produced by the knight. It is made possible by the inability of the opposing king to escape because he is […]
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Centre as a Strategic Resource
“Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about.” […]
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About chess in a few words
“Every chess master was once a beginner.” (Irving Chernev) Chess is a sequential move (one move at a time), asymmetric (players have different strategies), zero-sum game (one player’s win is […]