Eight Quail Run School students, armed with chocolate milk, gather around their Expert-ranked coach at a recent chess club practice. Coach Steve Robinson is discussing the Bughouse Blitz and other ...

Junior Jaewon Kim shifted in his seat, staring down at the black and white chess board as he thought hard about what his next move would be. With time running out, he quickly advanced his rook up the ...

Last fortnight, we discussed ‘Pattern Recognition in Chess’, aided by basic checkmate patterns like the Back Rank Checkmate with the rook and the Queen. Let us continue where we left off in our ...