Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Knights in chess

Look at this great short classic game (known as Légal Mate) of queen sacrifice and "unpinning". (Oh and I love chess.com's chess moves player)

Look at that brilliant knight move as it joined by other minor pieces!

I learned about this game from this great book: Checkmate Tactics by the world champion Garry Kasparov. Look this guy is the grandmaster who played with the Deep Blue yet he still writes beginners books to promote this great game.

I especially respect great achievers teaching others, be in chess, in academic, or in anything.

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It is hard to get minor pieces such as the 2 knights to win. Even in Chinese chess... seasoned players should know about 雙馬飲泉

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