Category: for beginners
-
Chess Camp in Ballyphehane
We are happy to announce that, we will hold a full day junior chess camp for all levels and ages: Planned program While we provide some snacks during the day, we asks that participants, please, bring your own lunch.
-
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 completely surrounded by his own pieces.“(Aaron Nimzowitch, 1925) Smothered mate is one of the oldest checkmate patterns in chess, as shown in the diagram below.…