Solve Checkmate Puzzles!
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Improve Your Chess!
“In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.”
-Jose Raul Capablanca, World Chess Champion from Cuba, 1921-27.
José Raúl Capablanca
Born: November 19, 1888, Havana, Cuba
Died: March 8, 1942, New York City, New York, USA
Buried: Colon Cemetery, Havana, Cuba
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Solve a chess puzzle, enter the weekly drawing as often as you like, and win awesome prizes! Winners’ prizes are listed below at ChessPuzzles. If you don’t win this week, try again next week! Many puzzles are posted daily!
“For a student to understand and progress in all stages of the chess game–the Opening, the Middle Game and the Endgame–the student must first know how to end the game in checkmate!”
-John Bain, author of the best-selling scholastic chess workbooks Checkmate! Ideas For Students as well as the blog Endgame Checkmate Patterns For Students!
