The lesson this week is that king-pawn endgames often devolve into a race. The fat king usually loses. Reach Eric Morrow at ...

This Diagram depicts a magnified view of the King castled short, from Black’s end. As with all examples in Chess, the same concepts will apply for White’s short-castled King too. The pawns on ...

Chess is played between two opposing armies, black and white. The ultimate goal of the game is to check or checkmate the other King. It happens when the King gets locked in a position to be ...

In the above chess board, white is to make the move to checkmate ... Consider the opponent's pieces that can block your checkmate. The black king is sitting in the g8 square.