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.

I’m sure everybody that reads this column can mate a lone king with a king and two rooks. Can you do it in three moves from this position?

This composition is amusing because Black gets more checks and ends up with more material, but still gets mated in six.

Black played one move here and White resigned. What was that move?