Back Rank Mates 1.

Posted on June 28th, 2012

White to Play

if White plays 1.Qxb2 – Black plays?

if White plays 1.Qe1 – Black plays?

if White plays 1.Qd3 – Black plays?

if White plays 1.Rc2 – Black plays?

if White plays 1.Rd3 – Black plays?

if White plays 1.Rc8 – Black plays?

if White plays 1.Qc2 – Black plays?

if White plays 1.Rb3 – Black plays?

Set it up on your chessboard and try it out.

Junior Handicap – final and review

Posted on June 28th, 2012

Arul [ Club Rating 546] continues to dominate the Junior events by

winning the Hans Gao Junior Handicap Shield for 2012 with 7 out of 7.

Anusha [CR 482] shared 2nd place on 6 points with the two big

surprises Dylan [ CR 347] and Andy [ CR 317].

Dylan or Andy only had to win their last 2 games to equal Arul and

topple him from 1st place because in this event “Lowest Rated Player

Wins if scores tied”, but sadly it was not to be, both could only manage

one win each.

The first 2 Rounds used diagrams of positions from the Lew Collins Cup

where players missed easy wins or misplayed the ending,however even

with a “2nd bite of the apple” some still got it wrong.

More use needs to be made of ideachess.com 1 move checkmate tests.

Try to get 20 in a row right with no mistakes,before trying 2 moves.