Chess Puzzle of the day for Beginners and Parents

Chess Puzzle of the day for Beginners and Parents

by | Mar 22, 2016 | Dail Puzzles - Beginner Level, Fun

This is a beautiful Chess Puzzle of the day for Beginners and Parents who have learnt the piece movements in Chess. You may not know how to play chess like a Pro, but you will definitely be able to solve these puzzles. So no more excuses.

Open this page at your office* and ask your colleagues to solve this seemingly simple puzzle. Your friends will be stymied and who knows they may start getting a liking for chess!

Chess Puzzle of the day for Beginners and Parents – head banger!

Chess Puzzle of the day for Beginners and Parents

Queen Mapping and Planning – mapping all pawn captures.

This puzzle involves the Queen. The Queen as you all know by now is able to move like a Rook and like a Bishop – that means along Ranks, Files and Diagonals.

Chess Puzzle of the day for Beginners and Parents

Here the goal is to capture all the pawns in each move that the queen is undertaking.

The aim is to finish capturing all the pawns by the queen.

Spoiler: This one will be very addictive. Don’t tell me you were not warned – it is somewhat difficult if you are not focused!

The advantages of this solving these sort of mind bending puzzles are:

  • It helps students to plan better and logically.
  • improves their focus and nurtures their ability to understand theory.
  • Chess calls for several fairly complicated calculations over its 64-square board. This is a precursor to that.
  • It develops ‘reverse thinking’ abilities and visualizations, besides encouraging the students the importance of thinking ahead

Have you read – What you can learn from a 2 year old baby?

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Chess Puzzle of the day for Beginners and Parents

Avail this opportunity if you are in search of quality introduction to Chess for your child.

If you are interested in solving tough puzzles like the above I recommend these books by GM Maurice Ashley –

Chess Puzzle of the day for Beginners and Parents

A somewhat easier one would be

Chess Puzzle of the day for Beginners and Parents

* Don’t blame me if you are fired from office for not doing your work!

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Tactics from the 41st Chess Olympiad

Tactics from the 41st Chess Olympiad

by | Aug 18, 2014 | Articles, Dail Puzzles - Beginner Level, Fun, Tactics

Hi friends, lets look at some Tactics from the 41st Chess Olympiad.

Tactics from the 41st Chess Olympiad

This position comes from the game WGM Melanie Ohme of Germany (2301) vs WGM Olga Girya of Russia (2484), Round 4 of the 41st Chess Olympiad, played in Norway.

White to move.

Tactics from the 41st Chess Olympiad

The tactics puzzle is at move 37. White to move.

Black has just played 36. …Rh2. It appears as though Blacks pieces are all swarming over the white monarch and the attack by black might just come through. Right?

Look again. The Black King is also not a sleeping beauty rather looks like a sitting duck. The question is – how can White use that to his advantage?

The first thing to do is to lay the position on a real chess board.

Do not try solving it on the PC as you will be missing on the spatial aspects of chess training.

Moreover if the position is not solvable in the first two minutes then stop staring at the screen.

Sit down and start solving on a chess board.

But don’t feel any necessity to do it that way; just try to “see” as far as you can with the diagram, and if you can’t keep the position or visualize deep enough, then its time to set up a board.

This wayit will improve your vision on a real board also since real chess games are OTB.

If you can mate him, it will be good. If you cannot, try tactical methods to snare some free stuff!

Oops – looks like I just blurted out the answer.

Don’t scroll down any further as the answer will be posted in the following lines.

 

Let us see what the answer is:  Bb6+ followed by RxN. (The Knight is defending the Rook on d2. So you get the picture now?). Black loses a lot of material and resigned.