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Category: Exercises

2025 Chess Calendar in Copenhagen

January 1, 2025

our 2025 Chess Calendar can now be purchased from Bedre til Skak – a chess shop located in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Author silasPosted on November 3, 2024November 3, 2024Categories 2025 Chess Calendar, Exercises, PuzzlesTags Bedre til Skak

7 Exercises

White to move. Wednesday – Level 3

I have created this blog page with 7 Exercises from one week of the Chess Calendar to show the 5 different levels. Playable solutions are available too. Continue reading “7 Exercises”

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Author silasPosted on August 30, 2023August 30, 2023Categories 2023 Chess Calendar, 2024 Chess Calendar, Exercises, Puzzles

Promotion: Online Class For $5

Currently, I have 3 ongoing online chess programs, and Interesting Endgames is about to continue with classes 5-8, starting on this Thursday, May 7.

However, for the classes 1 & 2 in this program, I did not yet record them. Therefore, I will do these classes again with a big discount. These are the dates:

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Author silasPosted on May 3, 2020May 3, 2020Categories Exercises, Interesting Endgames

Weekly Chess Letter #8

White to move.
Black to move.
Black to move.
Black to move.
Black to move.
Black to move.

These are the 6 critical positions for this week’s Chess Letter.

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Author silasPosted on November 24, 2018November 24, 2018Categories Exercises, The Secret Life of Bad Bishops, Weekly Chess Letter

Weekly Chess Letter #7

White to move.
Black to move.
White to move.
White to move.
White to move.
White to move.

These are the 6 critical positions for this week’s Chess Letter.

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Author silasPosted on November 18, 2018November 18, 2018Categories Exercises, Rook vs. Two Minor Pieces, Weekly Chess Letter

Weekly Chess Letter #6

White to move.
Black to move.
White to move.
White to move.
Black to move.
Black to move.

These are the 6 critical positions for this week’s Chess Letter.

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Author silasPosted on November 9, 2018Categories Exercises, The Secret Life of Bad Bishops, Weekly Chess Letter

Weekly Chess Letter #4

Black to move: find a plan.
White to move.
White to move: where to go with the rook?
Black to move.
White to move.
White to move: is there a defence?

These are the 6 critical moments I have selected for this week’s Chess Letter.

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Author silasPosted on October 26, 2018Categories Endgames, Exercises, Middlegame, Opening, Opening Simulator: King's Indian, Weekly Chess Letter

Weekly Chess Letter #3

White to move: what would you play?
White to move.
Black to move.
White to move.
Black to move: is it possible to construct a fortress in the a8-corner?
Black to move: how to defend this position?

Here are 6 critical moments from this week’s Chess Letter.

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Author silasPosted on October 19, 2018Categories Endgames, Exercises, Sharp Endgames, The Secret Life of Bad Bishops, Weekly Chess Letter

Weekly Chess Letter #2

White to move: evaluate 21.Nxd5
White to move.
Black to move.
White to move: find the winning plan.
White to move.
Black to move: exchange queens on d5?

The Weekly Chess Letter #2 is out. I have put together 6 of the critical moments from the game fragments.

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Author silasPosted on October 12, 2018Categories Endgames, Exercises, Rook vs. Two Minor Pieces, Sharp Endgames, The Secret Life of Bad Bishops, Weekly Chess Letter

Opening Simulator: King’s Indian Defence

Black to move. Level 3.

The draft of my next book has been handed in to Quality Chess and will probably come out sometime during the spring or summer of 2019. The book is co-written with Danish IM Andreas Hagen.

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Author silasPosted on October 7, 2018October 7, 2018Categories Exercises, Opening, Opening Simulator: King's Indian, Tactics

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