Just found a groovy site fullll of chess puzzles for the beginner (and upwards), coupled with decent GUI (graphical user interface)!
At least I know now where I'll be over the next 3,402,374,309,857,234,075 weekends!
A rival website, Chess.com, has tons of features and is far better overall, but as a free member of Chess.com, you can only practice 3 tactic problems per day. If you log out of chess.com, you can do ten puzzles per day. Neither of these is really enough, if you're serious about improving. So make sure to visit chesstempo.com frequently!
In the meantime, here's an example from the site: the classic kind of chess logic I love so much
Black's knight moved to e4 attacking white's queen on c3. Note that white already has a rook on c8 being attacked by black's queen on b7...
What should white do? Have a think before you scroll down for the answer. Get out your board and set up the position if you like.
White to mate in two moves.
The answer is a combination of sacrifice and manipulated play (via checking the king).
Answer: rook takes f8+
King takes rook on f8
...and now the king is totally trapped. The executioner's final hammer blow, white queen to h8, checkmate.
Beautiful. clever and simple.
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