![]() With the multiplayer feature, you can put your skills to the test against other players like you! You can create an account or play as guest. There are 4 different board styles (a 2D diagram, two fixed 3D designs and a 3D rotatable board) to suit any style - from the playful kid to the serious tournament player. Our online chess game also features an opening database created by analysing 145,000 games from international tournaments. With 5 levels of difficulty and a behavior modeled to make human mistakes, this is a very fun game to play. SparkChess is an excellent way to get better at chess - learn the proper rules (including the elusive en-passant), practice openings, test strategies, use the board editor to recreate famous positions with FEN strings, replay famous games, import/export PGN games and databases (with comments and annotations) and let the computer help you. ![]() Richard is a published author and his books can be found at Amazon.SparkChess is a free online chess game that allows you to practice chess against the computer and to engage in multiplayer online challenges, or to just watch others play. Richard has been a member of Richmond & Twickenham Chess Club since 1966. ![]() He is the webmaster of chessKIDS academy (or and, most recently, the author of Chess for Kids and The Right Way to Teach Chess to Kids, both published by Right Way Books. He was the co-founder of Richmond Junior Chess Club in 1975 and its director until 2005. Richard James is a professional chess teacher and writer living in Twickenham, and working mostly with younger children and beginners. Move the queen a knight’s move away from the enemy king but force him towards your king, not to the opposite corner. The most efficient technique, as it turns out, is to combine the two ideas. I don’t want to run out of time in a blitz game because it takes me 16 moves to do what I could have done in half the time. But many respected coaches use this method and no doubt they would tell me their pupils find it easier to learn than my method, so it must have something to be said for it.Īs a practical player I want to learn the most efficient technique. Qd8# * your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts I would expect them to play something like this: When the enemy king is on the side put your queen on the next rank to stop him escaping (make sure you do this before moving your king in to avoid stalemates). Continue with the above three steps until the king is on the edge of the board.ĥ. Get your king two ranks away from the enemy king.Ĥ. Place your queen on the next rank to the enemy king.Ģ. If they get stuck I demonstrate this algorithm:ġ. They start with their royal family on d1 and e1, with my lone king on e5. I also demonstrate the stalemate positions (I hope they understand stalemate): king in the corner, queen a knight’s move away, and, for example, black king on e8, white queen on d6, white king on f6, or any square controlling f7. There’s the ‘corridor mate’ with the queen checking on the side and the mate with the queen next to the king, supported by her consort. I start by demonstrating (or, for older children, asking them to discover) the different types of checkmate. ![]() Or, more importantly and more interestingly, how do you teach the king and queen checkmate? So how do you checkmate with a king and queen. ![]()
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