Varuzhan Akobian was a boy of only 5 years old when he discovered the game of chess. His father was his first opponent, and the match took place shortly after Akobian’s family moved to Mongolia from ...
The boy rested his head on a picnic table overlooking a Santa Rosa vineyard Monday, his intense gaze now level with the chessboard. From this angle, Pranav Thyagarajan thought he spotted a path to ...
Position No. 6089: White to play and win. From the game Dariusz Mikrut-Maria Gosciniak, Warsaw 2009. Solution to Position No. 6088: Black wins with 1 . . . Qxf2+! 2 Kxf2 Re2+ 3 Kxf3 (or 3 Kg1 f2 mate) ...