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                                           White to play The following position is White to play and its mate in three.No engines please.The red mark denotes here that Black has currently has only move b5 at his disposal.Can you find mate in three here?

                                                                            White to play White has a huge material disadvantage here..but the good thing for White is that his king and minor pieces are very active and all Black pieces are on a bad squares, the king and the queen have very few squares to go.Can white capitalize on it? If yes how ?

                                                                                                            White to play This is a study by one of the famous composer Grigoriev and its White's move..Can you find out the winning  continuation ?                                                           

                                                                      White to play This is the position I was looking during my practice sessions.Its white to move and looks as if it should be winning.Your task is to  find the candidate moves as you do in the game and calculate all the lines possible till the end also try to evaluate the final position.If you know this position before try  to find why other moves are not working..I t could be a good exercise.Please don't tell me you got the correct answer on the first attempt.Its very hard unless you know the position or the correct idea..Try to post how and why your move is the best.All the best !! After making some videos in marathi.I made my first video in english.In this video series I will try to explain some position which I came across and found it intresting and instructive.I hope you like this videos -

                                                                White to play Here its white move...and there are few knight fork tricks hidden in this positions..Can you find all correct moves ?

White to play It's white's move and has a knight for four pawn but black's pawn is just a square away from promotion.Can White save the game?

White to play White has a rook,knight and a pawn for a queen is this enough for a win in this position??

                                                                                                                                       White to play Can White win in this position ??

   White to move This position was give to me by Chinmay Kelaskar and is for intermediate level...Can you find a way to win for White ? No cheating please ! Please comment your answers in the comment box on blog

                                       White to play and win This position was composed by the ex-women world champion Judith Polgar in 1997 and it is recommended to advance level.I was solving some random positions at midnight and this position stuck me...My intuition gave me the first move but unable to calculate the whole variation.Can you calculate all the correct variations and comment below?

White to play Here in this position White has a rook for three pawns and therefore has a material advantage but the problem is that Black pawns are close enough to Queen so how white going to stop the pawns? Can he will be able to stop it and manage to save the game? Please give your answers below

Hello readers ,  Here is the link to the FREE courses of Chess.com, made by renowned coaches mostly by IM Danny Rensch and IM Bryan Smith. The system is via what they call “Chess mentor” which is a tool comparable to reading an annotated PGN in any reader (i.e. CB) but in here you need to solve question by question by moving, so you train, and the server keeps track of all the lessons done, the percentage of correctness, the progress and so on, assigning you a rating for this matter. One needs to register and setup an account with them first, which is also FREE, in  https://www.chess.com/register , so the course with all the exercises is activated. I would recommend this for anybody from beginner to below 2000, but if u are that or above, maybe you can learn something too, who knows, otherwise you just skip all you know and forward to the next theme as I did. The topics are as follow, sorted by level Beginner: Checkmate Beginner: Tactics Beginner: Openings Beginner: Endgames In

White to play The position I am showing is from Blake's  Chess Endgame for beginners...White is two pawn up and should be of course winning here, but things are not so easy as Black has a stalemate threat..So here moves like f3 or f4 are forced.Black has no other option than to recapture with the pawn..But do you think that white can win this game ?? Calculate all the variations..And comment your answer till white wins..

White to play  Another Endgame Study for Advance players...White has a queen but Black's pawn are close enough to promote...Its White to play...Can you find the correct solution ???

I was just surfing the net today...Suddenly  I herd a message tone on facebook...I opened it and I got few positions from my friend Chinmay Kelaskar of Mumbai who posted me some positions.We had a chat as he requested me to post it on blog..I too found these position interesting..So here they are White is in check so has to move his king..But the real question is where ?..If the king moves to g7 black will play Re7 and will make a draw...If the king goes on the f- file Black will move his rook to e2 and skewers.And the king can't also leave the pawn...So calculate carefully as Black also has some tricks at his disposal Second position is White to play both players are just one square away from promoting.. If white promotes his pawn...Black will also promote his pawn.As white cannot capture the Queen as it is a stalemate..So think carefully and calculate few moves ahead... And the last one is the Gem of all..Now this one is tough one...Position only for advance playe

The position is from a tournament game...White offered a draw claming that its a draw.Now its Black's move  He thought that after 1...c4 + 2Ka3 Kc5 3.Ka4 Kxd5 white will play Kb4 and he might be in  zugzwang   and will loose the c4 pawn.  Both players were not willing to take risk and  agreed a draw here...Can you assets the position correctly ??

We will start with a simple looking but intermediate position...Have a look at the position White to play              So my question is  Is Re8 + winning for white ? If not what is the correct way to play ?