We recently purchased, at a used book store, Chess Tactics for Champions by Susan Polgar. It’s a fine book for beginner to intermediate chess players interested in developing their tactical side. She organizes the tactics by theme, which is a great help for learning. It’s worth spending the ten to fifteen bucks if you are part of the target group. This week, we will give you three examples from the book’s “King Chase” chapter. If these seem too hard for you, be assured the prior 200 pages of the book help prepare you for this. Not only that, but if you’ve been following this column for any length of time, these should be quite solvable with some brain effort. In this diagram you will notice that White has just chopped off Black’s queen with Bxd8, so you better have a mating attack here!

Solution:

Another uncastled king falls to an attack on f2: 1...f2+ 2.Ke2 Bg4+ 3.Kd3 Nb4#

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