Tandem In Chess

Piece Coordination
“Help your pieces so they can help you.” – Paul Morphy

For a developing chess player, it helps to get a feel on how the various pieces work together: understand their strengths, importance and limits of their possibilities. Being familiar with what the pieces like and don’t like translates into a mutual understanding between the player and the pieces under his control. 

Just like the foot soldiers of the chess army (pawns) which excellently works in pair or “duo”. The chess pieces also have its own tandem (one-two punch, perfect team, or whatever you may call it) that logically exists.

(1) Tandem of Queen and Knight cooperates slightly better than Queen and Bishop.

(2) Tandem of Rook and Bishop cooperates slightly better than Rook and Knight.

(3) Tandem of Bishop and Bishop cooperates slightly better than Bishop and Knight.

Task: Consider the three cases above thoughtfully and answer WHY is it so.  

(Stay tuned for the explanation on my next post and more...)

Best Annotated Game

RCA Game Festival

Just recently, Remote Chess Academy successfully completed a chess competition where your "skills in annotating" your own game(s), and the "quality of games" played, will be judged.

The WINNERS were announced and selected according to the "number of votes" received from RCA students and chess fans. You can view my favorite game commentary (Radja's game) from the contest link indicated below.

Top-10 Games FINAL Ranking

1^st – Radja has received 53 votes. Click here to watch Radja’s game: LINK

2^nd– Bello J has received 49 votes. Click here to watch Bello J’s game: LINK

3^rd – Aseem has received 37 votes. Click here to watch Aseem’s game: LINK

4^th – Rascon has received 30 votes. Click here to watch Rascon’s game: LINK

5^th – Joshua has received 20 votes. Click here to watch Joshua’s game: LINK

6^th – Djema has received 9 votes. Click here to watch Djema’s game: LINK

7^th – Ram has received 6 votes. Click here to watch Ram’s game: LINK

8-9^th – Bello D and Jonathan both received 5 votes. 

            Click here to watch Bello D’s game: LINK 

            Click here to watch Jonathan’s game: LINK

10^th – Shilko has received 2 votes. Click here to watch Shilko’s game: LINK

Solve To WIN –  Chess Solving Competition

Answer:  Mate in Three

Chess Solving Competition

Solve To Win

Last February, TheChessWorld team held a tactics solving contest for a chance to get access to its unique "21 Days to Supercharge Your Chess" training course.

To enter the contest, you need to solve all 5 tactics problems and comment your solutions. The best solution (correct notation, all lines analyzed, etc.) will win the competition.

Here's my favorite puzzle from the memorable event for your solving: 
(Hint: A good chess imagination, visualization and calculation skills will be helpful.)

White to move and mate in 3

(The key move is 1.Ra2!!)

1.Ra2 Qa7 (1...Qb7 2.Rh2#) 2.Rh2#

   1.Ra2 Qa8 (1...Qh2 2.Rh2#) 2.Rxa8# 

1.Ra2 Qd8 2.Rh2# 

1.Ra2 Qc7 2.Ra8+ (any Q-move) 3.RxQ#

1.Ra2 Qd6 2.Ra8+ Qd8 3.Rxd8#

1.Ra2 Qe5 2.Ra8+ Qb8 3.Rxb8#

1.Ra2 Qf4 2.Ra8+ Qf8 3.Rxf8#

1.Ra2 Qg3 2.Ra8+ Qg8 3.Rxg8# 

1.Ra2 Qc8 2.Rh2+ Qh3 3.Rxh3#

1.Ra2 Qe8 2.Rh2+ Qh5 3.Rxh5#

1.Ra2 Qf8 2.Rh2+ Qh6 3.Rxh6#

1.Ra2 Qg8 2.Rh2+ Qh7 3.Rxh7#

The Contest "REWARD" 

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