While reading Reti’s book of games by Golombek, I was reminded of this position that Reti commented on as not exciting him as much as a well-played game. OK, I get his point, but we patzers can still enjoy this finish!

Here we are at the final act of the game we have been following for a week. Black finishes up with a nice mating attack.

We’re continuing to follow our game with our third position. This is how the game went from move one: 1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 d5 5.e3 c6 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.0–0 0–0 8.Ne2 Nbd7 9.Ng5 Bxh2+ 10.Kh1 Ng4 11.f4 Qe8 12.g3 ...Read More

We’re continuing to follow our game with our second position. This is how the game went from move one: 1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 d5 5.e3 c6 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.0–0 0–0 8.Ne2 Nbd7 9.Ng5 Bxh2+ 10.Kh1 Ng4 11.f4 Qe8 12.g3 ...Read More

We’re going to do something for the next week that we’ve done once before: go through an entire game in stages. With puzzles you only get a snapshot of the end of the game. With this weeklong game you get to solve the ...Read More

It’s Mate in Two Monday. I might have saved this for a Weird Wednesday.