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White to Play
This will be our last Isolated Queen Pawn lesson. In fifteen lessons,if you studied the positions and some of the full games offered, you added to your chess knowledge. Today’s game is special in that you get to see an unusual aspect of the attack. Then, you get a thorough study of what might have happened if Black had defended more resolutely...
View solutionAgents in Action
The Agents of F.C.I. have amusing anagrams to match their characteristics, for example, AGENT SOUL, whose name anagrams to LANGOUSTE, likes seafood.
Try to determine the Anagrams for the following Agents.
AGENT DEE is very young.
AGENT YIP specializes in Pharaohs and Sphinxes.
AGENT MIC has attractive abilities.
View full teaser and answerEqualizing
P is to L.
M is to OK.
Hence, D is to ___
White to Play
GM Carlos Torre was giving a simultaneous exhibition in 1924 when he reached this position as White. Unable to find a defense to the threatened Rc1, he resigned. He missed a saving line! Can you save the game for White?
View solutionCreative Slicing
How can you divide a pizza into 8 equal slices using only 3 straight cuts?
Hint: Think three-dimensionally!
View full teaser and answerWord of Letters Four
I'm a word of letters four with close ties to snow.
Just half of my first my third letter will show.
One fifth of my fourth my first you may call.
Of my second 'tis best to say nothing at all.
What word am I?
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White to Play
This is another classic Botvinnik game. No mating attack. Not even a win of material. He just gets a better position with a key move that, positionally speaking, is decisive. You get the whole game today because it’s a great lesson on how to win an endgame with an advantage even though material is even. The game started out with 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4...
View solutionChoice Chide
What do the following words have in common?
CHOICE
CHIDE
OBOE
BOX
OXIDE
CAN BYE BOO
What do the following words have in common, besides the fact that they're all three letters long?
CAN
BYE
BOO
TOM
Love Is All You Need
Which does not belong?
LOVE
ZILCH
GOOSE EGG
EPISODE
NIL
DUCK
White to Play
If you have studied each of the prior isolated queen pawn positions, you should have a shot at knowing what to do here. The game is a famous one, fully annotated in my Openings for Amateurs—Next Steps book. It starts out Botvinnik,M. - Vidmar,M. Nottingham, 1936 1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.d4 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Nc3 0–0 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Bd3 c5 8.0–0 cxd4 9....
View solutionWeird Numbering
What comes next?
0, 15, 30, 40, __
View full teaser and answerWhat's the Good Word?
Which of these words does not belong?
EMBARASS
WIERD
PRONUNCIATION
OCCURANCE
DEFINATE
View full teaser and answerFootnotes
A, who knows only French, publishes an article in an English magazine. At the end of the article are the following 3 footnotes:
1. I thank my friend B for translating the above article into English so that it could be published in this magazine.
2. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.
3. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.
Why are there only 3 footnotes when logically, A will have to go on forever to be able to thank B properly???
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White to Play
Black tries his best to defend a key square only to get mated.
View solutionFun with Geometry
What drink does this represent?
180 degree arc
360 degree arc
180 degree arc
A
180 degree arc
360 degree arc
90 degrees lines
A
HEA wooden stick VEN
What phrase is represented below?
HEA wooden stick + sulphur head + phosphorus tip VEN
View full teaser and answerBody Language
Answer the following with parts of the body. The first one is free!
1. A strong box (chest)
2. Heard in congress while voting
3. Baby cows
4. A shellfish
5. A unit used to measure distance
6. Scholars
7. Part of a shoe
8. What every builder must have
9. Something made by whips
10. What soldiers carry
STRU musical MENTS
Can you decipher the musical instruments represented below?
1. P O
2. BA BA
3. ECLART
4. @ # $ %
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White to Play
A very unusual position. Here’s what you need to know. It is a won position. The way taken by White is amazing. In the final mating position, White has only his queen, bishop and some pawns while Black has his two rooks, queen, two knights, and two bishops and a bunch of pawns!
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