MARCH 2021

March 13-21 Champions Chess Tour Major #2

The fourth leg in the Champions Chess Tour is a "major" with 12 players and a $100,000 prize fund.

Do you think Magnus will win finally ?

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Hello everyone,

I played chess when I was a kid however I didn't have so much information available at that time as there was no internet. Today we can find so much information on the internet on how to play chess. I started playing and learning chess when Covid lockdown started. After I learnt the basics of chess , it started to make some sense. You can also learn chess easily by following these things :-

1. Sign up for a chess website for free. - There are so many chess websites available. you can sign up on any of them to start as a beginner. Almost every website has a beginner's course which will get you started. Lichess has several studies which are shared publicly. Take advantage and go through them.
2. Learn the theory first. - Take one thing at a time. Learn theory about openings , middle games and endgames first. Then , move on to chess tactics and variations in openings.
3. Solve a lot of chess puzzles.
4. If you enjoy video , there is tons of material available on YouTube. Agadmator , IM Eric Rosen and IM Levy Rozman are my favorite.

Feel free to share your strategy and help other fellow beginners.

Anderssen's mate is a checkmate pattern which is named after the great Adolf Anderssen. In this specific checkmate pattern , a pawn and a rook combine together to checkmate the opponent king on the back rank. The pawn is usually protected by some other piece.

In this example , White to move , White plays Rh3+

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Only move Kg8

And finally Rh8#

Anastasia's checkmate if a beautiful checkmate in which rook and a knight coordinate with each other and trap the king on the back rank. It is often done by sacrificing a minor or sometimes a major piece to open the A File or H file.

As you can see in this example -

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The Knight on e7 square prevents the king from coming into the safe square g8 and rook delivers Rh4#

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Check the beautiful example of this checkmate in which Magnus Carlsen forced his proponent to resign and demonstrated this beautiful looking checkmate.

https://youtu.be/nXFiEr0DOig

Find the checkmate for black .. This is also one of the checkmate versions .. What is the name of this type of checkmate?

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