Quote of the month:
During a chess competition a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk - Alekhine.         

Issue 8 (5 Sept. 2007)
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IM Talk
By International Master Jimmy Liew

Playing too much, playing too little!!
   

Chess Beat 
By Larry Parr 
Editor Chess LIfe 1984 - 1988, Author 

Worse than a Crime? (continued)
Another nicely written article that has been split up and will be featured over the next few issues. 

When Gods Blunders (I)  

 

Chess 4 Life! 
By Candidate Master Collin Madhavan

Caissa - Goddess of Chess 
(a Poem on Chess) by Sir William Jones (1763)!
 

Puzzle #15

White to checkmate in 5 moves. 

Puzzle #16


White to play and win. 

Solutions for this week's puzzles will be published in the next issue.  
Solutions (for issue #7): 

Puzzle #13
 1. Rg8+ Kh7 2. Rg7+ Kh8 3. Ng5 1-0 [3...hxg5 4. Rxg5 {and Rh5++}] Bosboom Lanchava vs. Apicella, 2002

Puzzle #14
 1.Nh6+ Kh8 2.Qxe5 Qxe5 3.Nxf7+, Capablanca vs. Marc Fonaroff 1918

 

Last updated 5 September 2007