Kastle Academy

02/23/2025

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09/21/2021

Chess Strategy Tip: Place Your Rooks on Open Files.

Rooks are best placed on open or semi-open files. If there are no such files in the position, they could be placed behind the central pawns, offering them support.

08/07/2021

KNIGHTS ON THE RIM ARE DIM:

Because a Knight always moves to a square of the opposite colour to the one it stands on, there is a danger that a badly placed knight can be dominated by the enemy bishop that moves on that colour square. Below position is an example: Black has allowed his knight to become cut off behind enemy lines, and the white bishop is able to prevent it from escaping single handedly. There is nothing black can do to stop the white king from strolling over and capturing the knight.

05/07/2021

A good read and lot of information, openings and games.

From the very origin of our beautiful game to the current global online chess phenomenon, India has contributed significantly to the world of chess. Historical records show that the 8x8 chessboard dates from the days of Mahabharata and Ramayana. Board games are also described in early Buddhist liter...

04/23/2021

60 Memorable Games of Bobby Fischer

04/21/2021

One of the popular games for Panov Botvinnik opening:

Viewable chess game Garry Kasparov vs Viswanathan Anand, 1996, with discussion forum and chess analysis features.

04/19/2021

Take a look at some of the most interesting chess games

Today we present to you the collection of 15 best games in the history of chess. These games involve the most amazing ideas imaginable, greatest combinations, superb sacrifices, tremendous positional play and so on. By deeply studying the annotations you will not only enjoy the greatest chess games....

03/23/2021

The goal of Kastle Academy is to make you a good Chess tactician and help you enjoy your chess to the absolute maximum. Training on patterns will enhance your art of calculation and you will be able to name the key tactical patterns. We shall discuss about one Tactic a week and increase complexity as we move along. Students can join anytime to learn new patterns.

Courses are basically divided into the following Tactical pattern themes apart from the Opening, middle and endgame strategies:
1. Double Attack
2. Double-Check
3. Discovered Attack
4. Deflection
5. Absolute Pin
6. f2 (or f7) weakness
7. Forcing Moves
8. Fork
9. Intermediate move
10. King Chase
11. Simplification
12. Skewer
13. Stalemate
14. Tactics
15. X-Ray Attack
16. Back-rank mate
17. Smothered mate
18. Support mate.

03/18/2021

In 1916, during World War I, Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934) and Jacques Mieses (1865-1954) played a chess match in Berlin in which the prize was a pound of butter.

Tarrasch won the match and the butter with 7 wins, 2 losses, and 4 draws! (source: Chess Review, Apr 1937, p. 89)

03/16/2021

No worries if you are unable to go on a feast for St. Patrick's Day wearing green clothing and hat. Check out this opening traps video and use it in your next game!

Everyone loves to crush their opponents in the opening! Watch along as Jedimaster JC 3 shows us his three favorite opening traps: Legal's Mate, Englund Gambi...

03/08/2021

Hint - Smothered checkmate.
White to play and checkmate in 2 moves.

03/01/2021

Stalemate is something very important
to avoid in the endgame when you are in a winning position. In this position, White has a huge material advantage.

We need to notice that the Black King has no legal moves. Therefore, if Black is able to give
up his last piece (the Queen) which can move, Black can escape a lost game with the help of stalemate.

Therefore Black plays: 1…Qa1+ or 2. Kxa1 (only move) and stalemate. Game Draw.