Author Archives: Snodland Chess Club

Snodland CC’s very own “room” on the playchess server, allowing our members to join for free and play online against other club members, completely free.
The Candidates starts this week. With Carlsen (Our selected top player watch subject) not playing, I will take a closer look at Vladimir Kramnik’s tournament.
Book Review – Jeremy SIlman’s Complete Endgame Course. (This has recently been purchased by the club).
Tactics Time 2. Not much response from the first one – please let me know if you want to continue to see these……
Great Games from Chess History – Robert Fischer Vs Bent Larsen
The Rapid Play entry form will be available to download shortly.
A few surprises

Chess Quotes 4

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: ‘Well, you laughed when I wrote it down’. – Mikhail Tal

Study Time 2

Below is a simple looking position that contains a rather beautiful idea. It’s White to play and win. You will gain the most benefit by setting the position up on the board and spending 20 minutes or so trying to work out all the varitions without moving the pieces.

Once you’ve tried and think you’ve solved all the problems, you can check the solution here.