Tagged: Krejcik

This post is a collaboration with my friend Misha who is a true chess enthusiast. I met him at Nairobi Chess Club (NCC) where he served as a Committee Member, Director of Play for...

The quickest way for winning a chess game is to capture the opponent’s queen. That uses to happen with high probability when playing the queen too early in the game. A genuine specialist in...

Today’s trap is known as the Krejcik queen trap. As the name indicates, the result is to trap the queen. In the following game, the queen is surprisingly trapped in 6 moves!! Even more...