Diamond Dust! Chess Tactics

Through space and time, from Chaturanga and around the world, tactics to sharpen your skills.

It takes practice to come up to a chessboard, take one look at a position, and know all that is taking place. You just begin to recognize the situation, more or less. Games between weaker players are especially easy to understand. Top quality games are more difficult because there are things of great subtlety taking place.

Pal Benko

Diamond Dust! Chess Tactics

Through space and time, from Chaturanga and around the world, tactics to sharpen your skills.

“Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of chess…..It is because combinations are possible that chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter.” Reuben Fine

Combination with attack on King