Chess Puzzles For Kids
Chess Puzzles For Kids
Chess Puzzles For Kids
Introduction
Algebraic Notation
Using Puzzles to Improve
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Zwischenzugs
44) Mastering the Zwischenzug
45) The g4 Zwischenzug
46) The g6 Zwischenzug
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Mating Patterns
47) A Mighty Mate on g8
48) More Mighty Mates
49) You Can Mate with Two Knights
50) The Rarest Checkmate
51) Boden & Friends
52) Arabian Knights
53) Remember the Rook-Lift
54) Rook-Lift with f5
55) Smothered &
Semi-Smothered Mate
56) A Classic Semi-Smothered Mate
57) A Queen Sacrifice on h7
58) Off to the Beach
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Discovered Attacks
62) Prising Open the a-File
63) Discovered Attack on the c-File
64) Discovered Attack with g4+
65) Amazing Discoveries
66) Carnage on the Chessboard
67) A Neat Way to Win a Rook
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Back-Rank Combinations
68) A Susceptible Structure
69) Snooze & Lose
70) More Snoozing, More Losing
71) Back-Rank Brilliance
72) A Pawn-on-the-Seventh Trick
73) Rook & Queen Double-Act
74) The Triple-Act
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Perpetual Checks
85) Simple Perpetual with a Queen
86) The Standard Queen Perpetual
87) A Perpetual Classic
88) Knight Sacrifice Perpetual Classic
89) A Queen & Knight Perpetual
90) The Rook & Knight Perpetual
91) Something Old, Something New
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Opening Traps
92) Abnormal Opening Patterns
93) The Slav Trap
94) Double Trouble
95) Balashovs Queen Blunder
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Endgame Themes
96) A Right-Royal Endgame Tactic
97) Upside-Down Chess
98) Conjuring Up a Passed Pawn
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And Finally...
99) Dont Try This at Home
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100) And Its Good Knight from Him 111
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WINNING MATERIAL
WITH h6+
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8-+rwrvk+(
7+p+-+pzp
6p+-+ns-+&
5+-+p+N+-%
4-+-Z-+-+$
3+-S-+-W-#
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1T-V-T-M-!
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5+-+-zN+-%
4P+-+P+-+$
3+-S-+-WP#
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1T-V-T-M-!
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XABCDEFGHY
8r+-w-tk+(
7z-+nvpzp
6n+p+p+-+&
5+-+pZ-+-%
4-+-Z-+-+$
3+N+-+NW-#
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1T-V-M-+R!
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6pz-zp+-+&
5s-+-Z-+-%
4P+-SlZ-+$
3+-+-V-W-#
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1T-+-+R+K!
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7z-s-+pmp
6-+-z-sp+&
5+pzPtPW-%
4-+P+-+-+$
3+-S-+LSP#
2PZ-+-+P+"
1+R+-+RM-!
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7z-z-+pzp
6-z-z-+n+&
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ANOTHER USEFUL
h5+ TRICK
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In this theme the white queen is on the e5-square where it pins the
black knight. So after White plays h5+, Black must capture with his
pawn. This exposes the black king to a queen check on the g5-square.
34a) White moves
S.Darr-Womacka, Germany (teams) 2007/8
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7zlt-+pmp
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5+-+-W-+-%
4-zPZ-+-+$
3+-+-+-S-#
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1+-TR+-M-!
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8-+r+-t-+(
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4-+-+-+-+$
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