Posts categorized "Problems & puzzles"
Kick off the summer with these checkmate puzzles composed by GM Pal Benko. Can you solve all six?
Most of us of have seen Mikhail Tal’s daring yet inaccurate sacrifices blow his opponents off the board. We’ve seen Fischer’s “Sac, sac, mate!” to...
Awonder at the Saint Louis Chess Club Congrats to 14-year-old Awonder Liang, who earned his second GM norm on the way to winning his section of the...
Levon Aronian recently won the Grenke Classic, which featured a top-notch field, including Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime-Vachier-Lagrave...
After winning the exceptionally strong Gibraltar Open for the third consecutive time in February, Hikaru Nakamura has now also managed to win the...
In round 7, Sevian faced second seed GM Vladmir Belous on board 1. Sevian had the black pieces and trailed Belous, who led the tournament by half a...
Photo Lennart Ootes Wesley So, our new US Champion and current World #2 ranked player, dazzled with his queen sacrifice against Jeffery Xiong, one of…
GM Pal Benko recently contributed Apri Fools problems to the April edition of Chess Life Magazine, in which you are challenged to construct… Read More »
When I first started playing chess, I spent a lot of time studying the opening. Inspired by the World Champion at the time, Garry Kasparov, I spent...
From March 29–April 2, the Charlotte Chess Center and Scholastic Academy (CCCSA) held its second GM/IM Norm Invitational tournament in the hopes of...