Recognize Mating Pattern - Chess Puzzle

One way to improve your skills in playing chess is solving chess puzzles. Chess problem solving is ultimately not only will increase your game's quality but also sharping your game played. The composition exist in chess puzzles can be considered an art form.

To complete this article, here I post one chess puzzle for you to solve. This is an easy one. Try on your own move first then see the result.

White to play and win in 4 moves... 1. ?

The answer: 1. Nf7+ Kg8 2. Nh6+! double check! Kf8 will instantly mate by Qf7++. Black to move Kh8. White should not gain material by simply play Nxd8 even also lead to win instead the fast winning route is only 2 move ahead.
3. Qg8+!! Rxg8 4. Nf7++ Mate.

How do you feel? This chess game combination should be practice and repeat frequently until you master how and when to take advantage of such position using your Queen and Knight combination. Always remember to recognize this mating pattern and set pieces. Apply to your chess games. Early detection on this will lead you to the victory. You will appreciate it and I am sure you will love it! Happy learning and continue enjoy this reading!

"I like to play combination, some of them intuitive and not fully calculated!"
-- Rudolph Spielmann

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Bobby Fischer One of The Greatest Chess Player Ever!

"Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind" -- Bobby Fischer

Who is Bobby Fischer? A very natural talented chess player ever! I look up to him as a legend and genius of the great chess game played ever. He inspired me to love the game of chess for whatever it is. Bobby Fischer is considered to be one of the most gifted chess players of all time. Short biography of the world great chess player Bobby Fischer:

Full Name : Robert James Fischer (known as Bobby Fischer)
Country : United States
Born :March 9th, 1943 - Chicago, Illinois United States
Start : 6^th years old (1949)
Awards :
: US Junior Chess Championship 1956
: Age 12^th – US National Master
: US Open Championship 1957
: Age 14^th – International Master
: Age 15^th – Grandmaster
: World Chess Champion in 1972
: 2785 the highest rating (1972)

Fischer's road to the world championship shows highly controversial with a lot of demand by Fischer on his own good reason. In 1972, Fischer beat the World Champion Boris Spassky 12.5 – 8.5 with 7 won, 1 lose and 11 draw conquering the world crown for the title 11^th World Chess Champion, meaning that Fischer has already broke the Soviet monopoly of the world title in history. After winning the world championship, Bobby Fischer never returns to defend his title against Anatoly Karpov in 1975. He disappeared for a long time and no more active in chess competition. Nevertheless, he is still among the best known of all chess players around the world.

I like very much the games played by Bobby Fischer. Most of the games showing very high quality and stand at its own class. Wonderful and brilliant! This is what I say before 'the beautiful art of chess'.

For the introduction, I post one of his game played when he is 16th years old. How Bobby Fischer played against his opponent in this position?

Bobby Fischer VS Shocron Leonardo, Mar Del Plata 1959

How white continue to winning this game?

Rxe6! A good move by Fischer! An exchange sacrifice. Now if Black plays fxe6 White will reply with Qxe6+ followed by Qxe5. White then has a winning position, although material is level, with Bd4 coming up and the Black King in trouble. But instead Black tried a clever defense: Qc8 pinning the Rook. How did Fischer get out of that one?

The brilliant answer (not easy to find, I guess) was Bd7!!. Now if Black plays Qxd7 his Queen is now undefended so White can play Rxg6+ winning the Queen. If Black does anything else with his Queen the White Rook will escape.

I will bring more interesting and wonderful games played by Bobby Fischer in the future. Hopefully you will like it. Thanks.

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When you are playing chess, you develop list in your head of opponent’s moves which you should explore by playing as many moves ahead in your mind as you can and evaluating the potential outcomes. That’s the secret how the chess experts conquering the world of chess battle. Can you?

Unfortunately, starting out with this is very difficult and time consuming. Chess experts do this instinctively and can play very fast naturally. But it is not easy task to do. To be at the chess master level, intensive practice is required. Memorization and mastering of various openings, middle game, and endgame can be crucial. This is how the master did it. How about us?

The easier way to learn and more interesting are to approach professional’s games, grandmaster's games level for sure and try to understand the reasoning behind each move they did. The idea is not to memorize or copy their moves or tactics, like many do, but to appreciate the strategies and the logical reasoning that led to them.

Skill only comes with the great amounts of practice. But it doesn’t mean that to experiment every possible move of your games instead of to learn from the proven winners which is far more efficient.

The reason why I am blogging here, talking about chess definitely not to show you a way to become a chess grandmaster but to share with my reader all about the art of chess. My focus is studying the beautiful art of chess from variety of grandmaster's games level. It’s all about the great set pieces, terrific piece sacrifice, brilliant combination and thinking in advance which all stated might catch my interest. That’s it.

Happy learning and continue enjoy this reading on my journey!