Tag Archives: chess

Chess Tactics

Posted on April 28, 2009 by mdiehr

The essense of chess tactics is to make a single move which threatens the opponent twice – unless they have some counter tactic to either deal with both threats, they will end up in a worse position, because you will … Continue reading →

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Game Explorer

Posted on September 9, 2008 by mdiehr

In chess, there are huge depositories of games past, which can be explored using powerful tool such as chess.com’s Game Explorer. Using this web program you can play moves and see what the winning percentages are for each move that … Continue reading →

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Board Games

Posted on August 25, 2008 by mdiehr

I started playing chess and scrabble recently, so I’ve been inspired to work on a new board game. They’re certainly a lot easier to design than video games – the constraits here are really helpful. For one, it needs to … Continue reading →

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