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Treasury of FREE Chess Articles By IM Jeremy Silman
So many of these Articles are Lessons, Games and Positions to Test and Teach the Reader.
Chess Tactics
Mating Patterns
Beginner Mating Patterns Part 1 - 6 Puzzles - Lesson on Backrank, Mate on h7, Mate on g7, Smothered Mate
Beginner Mating Patterns - Part 2 - 7 Puzzles , Lessons (SCHOLAR’S MATE and the WEAKNESS OF F7) and (FOOL’S MATE – DEATH DOWN the h5-e8 DIAGONAL)
Beginner Mating Patterns Redux - Part 3 - 16 Puzzles to Test Your knowledge of first 2 Articles in Series
Tactic Type Lessons
X-ray - Chess Taser! - 8 Puzzles , Detailed Lesson on the X-Ray TacticPins - Sharp, Dangerous, and Effective! - 10 Puzzles , 4 Games , Detailed lesson on Pin Tactic
Double Attack - The Ultimate Tactical Concept - 6 Puzzles , 2 Games , Lesson on Double Attack tactic
The Dreaded Discovered Attack - 7 Puzzles , 1 game , Lesson on Discovered Attack
The Curse Of Undefended Pieces - Lesson
Forks
The Misunderstood Knight Fork - Part 1: Greed - 7 Positions, 9 Puzzles - Lesson on Knight Forks
The Misunderstood Knight Fork - Part 2: Attack - 8 Puzzles, 2 Games - Slaughter With the Knight Fork
The Misunderstood Knight Fork (Part 3) – Various - 5 Puzzles - 5 Other reasons to Set up a Fork
Pawn Forks: the David vs. Goliath of Chess - 8 Puzzles - 4 Pawn Fork Ideas
An Infestation of Forks - 13 Puzzles - looking at Bishop, Queen, Rook, and even King forks.
Attacking the Enemy King Oriented Tactics
The Classic Bishop Sacrifice - Part One - 8 Puzzles - to make this sacrifice a reality is a Queen, Knight, and light-squared Bishop aiming at h7 ( 3 Key defensive ideas for Black)
The Classic Bishop Sacrifice - Part 2 - 7 Puzzles , Lesson about exploring what happens after 1.Bxh7+ Kxh7 2.Ng5+ Kg8
The Classic Bishop Sacrifice - Part Three - 5 Puzzles , 6 game Positions , 1.Bxh7+ Kxh7 2.Ng5+ In Part Three, we’ll move on to 2…Kh6 and 2…Kg6, which often leads to far more complex positions than the previous King moves.
The Classic Bishop Sacrifice - Part Four - 17 Puzzles , (All Puzzles to see if you grasped Concepts from Articles 1-3 )
Sac the House and Have Some Fun! - 19 Puzzles , 1 game
Oddities In The Classic Bishop Sacrifice - Lesson on Bishop Sacrifice
Brilliancy Prize Tactics
Unknown Chess Players Who Won A Prize - 6 Positions where a Brilliancy Prize was won.
Can You Solve These Old Time Chess Puzzles? - 6 Puzzles that won Brilliancy Prizes w/ Interesting HistoryCan You Solve These Brilliancy Prize Chess Tactics? - 6 Puzzles w/ History
Can You Solve These Tactics That Won Brilliancy Prizes? - 6 Puzzles w/ History of Players
More Brilliancy Prize Chess Tactics - 6 Puzzles w/ History
History, Brilliant Chess Tactics And You! - six chess puzzles, with each game being given a brilliancy prize w/ Interesting History for Each.
Brilliancy Prizes (Players)
Garry Kasparov's Brilliancy Prizes - 12 Full Games (Puzzle for each)
Who Has The Most Best Game Prizes? Tal - 15 Full games (Puzzle for Each)
Anatoly Karpov's Best Game Prizes - 10 Fully Annotated Games
Rashid Nezhmetdinov's Best Game Prizes - 10 Annotated Games
Tactics and Combinations (Lessons)
Learning Chess Patterns Is Easy - Lesson (Tactics patterns, Attacking patterns , Opening Structure patterns)Throwing Away Your Queen - 12 Puzzles - 4 games - Topic - Queen Sacs
Classic Combinations: The Good Old Days - 8 Puzzles , HistoryCan You Find These Classic Combinations? - 9 Puzzles, History
The Deadly Attacks Of Romantic Chess - 9 Puzzles, History
Classic Combinations: Historic Attacks - 8 Puzzles , History
Classic Combinations - 10 Puzzles , History
Brutal Tactics and Positional Tactics - 1 Puzzles , 2 Games (Replaying Tal's classic game against Gurgenidze)
Tactics, Tactics, Floating in the Air - 6 Puzzles - Single Bird's Opening Game Tactics Lesson
Raging Tactics and Geometric Beauty - 6 Puzzles - Full Analysis of an Amateur game
A Cascade of Tactics - 4 Games, 3 Puzzles - Full Analysis of an Amateur game
Calculation
How To Improve Your Calculation - Full Annotated Amateur Game - With lesson and Tips After.
Are Tactics The Same As Combinations? - 3 Games (Emanuel Lasker Games )
