. . . Despite the risks there are still people who managed to infiltrate the Knights Errant. So we have to dismantle our organization and continue under another name. The first step of endgame strategy seems to be to acquire a list with endgames which...

. . . This is about the 8th time that I look at endgames. It seems that the time is finally ripe now. My first attempt to get better at endgames was when I picked up an endgame book by Euwe. Euwe is one of those terrible endgame authors who wanted to...

. . . Blunderprone commented on my previous post: "Being able to reach a middle game position and in my head run through a calculation only to mis-evaluate the outcome is an issue in my mind's eye. Visualization skills are critical for calculation of...

. . . Some fellowbloggers seem to tend to see my writings as abstract, arcane or theoretically. I'm totally to blame for that. I don't make any efforts whatsoever to make it look differently due to other priorities in using my time. Yet I can assure...

. . . In a previous post I discovered that chess is the ultimate trap. You might think that that leads to a simple algorithm which closes the trap. Just take away as much squares as possible from your opponent's pieces and you're done. Matters are...