The ‘Gambits are basically played with the following purpose: To surprise your opponent by taking him into the unknown territories! To steer your opponent into your own prepared lines! To force your opponent to adopt a sequence of opening ideas against his natural playing style. For example, if your opponent is comfortable playing the closed lines, a Gambit in the opening is  likely to steer the games into wild complications, out of his comfort zone! However, a Gambit player needs to be psychologically prepared to play the game in the pure Gambit style (Heart Stronger than Mind!). Things…

We, the chess players, love the word – “Check & Mate” – the ultimate triumph of one player over the other in this battle of nerves! However, in majority of games, mate does not always occur. As a matter of fact, in the modern game of Chess they rarely occur! In a game between two players of equal strength a player will resign in a hopeless position rather than face the indignity for the Checkmate to be enforced on him. But that should not prevent us from learning the typical mating positions and patterns for two reasons: We can…