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Easy chess puzzles
For those of you who want an easy puzzle each week, this is the first in a series of easy puzzles… for harder ones see Jammo’s Puzzles (a new one every Friday).
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Interschool Chess History
For interest sake we’ve uploaded a list of previous Interschool Champions (1st – 3rd in each state). Check it out
Jammo’s Chess Puzzle #93
If I had to choose one chess website as being my favourite it would have to be http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/ “Chess Notes” by Edward Winter.
Winter must be the best chess historian in the world and his “notes,” which run into the thousands, are a treasury of chess history, memorabilia, anecdotes, famous games and quirky incidents. Currently I’m reading a book of some of Winter’s better “notes” which I pinched from the pile of old chess books sitting around here at Chess Kids. (Don’t tell the Guru!).
To whet your appetite here is a quirky position apparently either from a lightning game between Capablanca and Lasker in 1914, or composed by them following the game. Warning: You’ll really need to exercise your imagination to solve this one – both Capablanca and Lasker were world champions.
