Chess Tricks, Part II Black went Nh5 to threaten to take the bishop, but White had a trick up his sleeve.

I was looking through my first chess book (The Game of Chess by Golombek)and found a section on “tricks.” We’ll do some tricks this week. Here, Black surprised White in what seemed like a stable position.

OK, suitable for a weekend puzzle, this is a long sequence with a central theme of attacking along the diagonal from a2-g8. See if you can work it out all the way to mate at the end.

A finish from former world champ Anand.

Won by Vorotnikov in 1974.

Here’s a game I played on the Internet Chess Club this morning. I played an opening system I mentioned in my Openings for Amateurs books and have played hundreds of games with this line. It started out like this: ...Read More