Online chess tournament

Sadurangam Gm chess academy is conducting online tournament on 31.03.2020.
This is for children below 15 years.
start time 11.am Duration 3 hours
( saduragam students need not enroll again )
This is a two minute 2 step process .
1. click the below link to enroll your child.

Player Details- click this to enroll

2. Whatsapp your child’s name with Date of birth
you will get a password in half an hour  to get enrolled.
click the tournament link to join , and be available at 11am to 2 pm.
Join the tournament home page- click this link

Give the continuation

How should be the continuation of the game. Guess it , if you could, you are definitely good at chess.

solve this Zugzwang

Can you do this ?

Finish if you can ..

An Epic game with Magnus Carlsen

This is one typical game , how ,even  the World champion lost . The power of the end game and the tactics involved. Go through the game and figure out how the game has ended.

Click here to watch

How should white continue

White to move now,how should the game continue ?

Gain Advantage

We can see that material on both the sides are equal, but white has better king position [Castled],but black king is still in the centre; also, there is undeveloped black king side; black pieces are not co ordinated; white has to move now, and the question is – how to gain out of the situation?

Analyse this game

This is a game played by the chess legend - 5 times world champion Vishy Anand, 
Question1:  What are the better moves available for black ?
Question2 : Who won the game ?
Question3:  What are the winning moves ?
By the way I am not mentioning who played white and black.

Click the link to perform the analysis

Winning shot

White moves the rook to chase the queen. It never expected the game will over in the next few moves. 
An amazing game played in the chess history. 
Are you capable of identifying the winning shot ?

puzzle created by Subramanian 

Chess can't be mastered in a day

Over the years , having trained several kids, giving chess lessons, practicing , participating in FIDE tournaments, meeting coaches, World champions, a piece of wisdom obtained is " You can know the rules of the games, but can't master it  ".It needs several years of dedication, passion, recognition of pattern skills, tactics etc.
When I meet few people they happen to ask me , is weekend practice sufficient ?  The simple answer is  it needs every day's practice  by means of puzzle solving, online games, using apps, practice openings, end games, best moves  ,analysing games etc. Daily practice adds to the skill,which has to be developed and nurtured.
I would quote if you are a chess player and have a zeal "  You have to play chess only on the day you brush you teeth" funnily.
Remember " The Tanjore Brahadeeswara temple was not built in a single day ". There is no second option for practice.
The achievers also have academic pressure, family pressure, financial pressure and the list is endless.
Finally - the journey is important and every step taken in the day counts. It is better to work for 5 min/day than keeping idle.

can you win?

White to move 

Solve if you can

White to move mate in 2 moves..
Try all the possible variations

Remember goat is white!

For playing chess the brain’s memory is highly important. Remembering the positions, name of the squares ,color of the squares helps to play the conventional chess as well as the blindfold chess at ease.

 There is a simple technique which is taught during the beginning of the chess classes.

Every beginner is taught the names of the squares.  All the 64 squares have names a1 ,a2  etc … h8. The first square is black which is the bottom left square. Remember ‘Day starts from darkness’.

Give weightage ‘a’ as 1 , ‘b’ as 2 and so on upto ‘h’ as 8.

Let us name a square d4. Which means  ‘4’4. Replacing  ‘d’ as 4.  Sum up the numbers 4+4 =8

The rule ‘Odd is white’. Now we get the sum value as even which is  not white hence black.

Now, check the other square h3. Replace ‘h’ as 8. We get ‘8’3. Sum up 8+3=11. It is a odd number and hence white.

‘ Where is the goat here?’ In Tamil, AAdu  means white, which is pronounced in the same way as odd.  ‘There are only white goats in chess’. Don’t ask me- hey, goats are in different colours . That is how kids are taught to remember. There are different stories for non Tamil people.

Enjoy chess!.