In order to checkmate him, the king must be in the same color corner as your bishop. Therefore, your job is to make the king go to h8! Watch the knight ho...

In friendly games most players still announce “check”. However announcing “check” is not required under the rules of chess and it is usually not done in f...

Double-Action to Single-ActionHowever, with most double-action semi-automatics, they are built to be DA/SA which is Double-Action to Single-Action. This m...

Children can learn chess very early, some even as early as two years old! The key is to teach them in a child-oriented way, instead of relying on standard...

En passant is a unique privilege of pawns—other pieces cannot capture en passant. It is the only capture in chess in which the capturing piece does not re...

royal flushThe royal flush sits atop the poker-hand rankings as the best hand possible. It features five consecutive cards of the same suit in order of va...

At the time of its release The Theory of Poker was unlike any publication that had come before it. Sklansky has authored or co-authored 13 books on poker,...

Bd3 is a simple development move that prepares short castle and puts long-term pressure on h7 (for once the black king castles). How do you checkmate with...

Blitz. Time controls for each player in a game of blitz chess are, according to FIDE, 10 minutes or less per player. This can be played with or without an...

f3/f6 is often a very double-edged move. It often will weaken your king position and often take away a nice square for the knight, but it can also achieve...