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e4 (King's Pawn Opening) tends to start the game with a bang, leading to positions with pieces flying out fast and furious ...
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Pawn Endgames: Studying tablebases and engine lines, he’s mastered subtle king triangulations and pawn races. His 2014 game against Aronian, squeezing a win from a near-dead draw, shows engine-like ...
The point-count system taught to chess beginners says that a queen is worth 9 points, a rook 5, and a knight 3, so the side with the queen is nominally ahead by 1 point (which is calibrated to the ...
CHESS WHEN Emanuel Lasker sacrificed his queen for a rook, a bishop and a pawn in 1925, it was described as a deep psychological trap, designed to trick his inexperienced opponent. But when Alexand… ...
Chess: a rook and two pawns each but what is White’s winning move? on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save. Leonard Barden. December 29 2020. Jump to comments section Print this page.