*** About this blog ***

The plan for this blog is to develop a collection of chess tactics. Each tactic will be presented in PGN notation, with embedded comments. The analysis is from Fritz 9, so it should be pretty accurate. The comments are mine, so there could be mistakes in them.

Feel free to comment on the tactics. I also welcome any suggestions for improving this blog.

If you want to post a tactic, send an email to jemsward (at) gmail (dot) com. You will have to have a google account (which is free), so that I can add you to the list of authors for this blog. Tactics should be posted using the same format that I am using, and please put comments in the PGN with your analysis of the tactic and the continuation.

Each tactics post starts with the diagram, followed by the PGN. To create the diagram, I'm using the free online chess position composer at chess diagram setup. The chess position can be input using FEN notation, so the diagrams are easy to create from the PGN using cut and paste. Here are the other options I am using in the composer:

Player to move unspecified
Smart flat set
Plain color
Color setup 1 (green and buff):
Dark squares: #487850
Light squares: #efe4c8

Color setup 2 (brown and buff):
Dark squares: #9c7438
Light squares: #efe4c8

Color setup 3 (blue and gray):
Dark squares: #506c90
Light squares: #e2e2e0

Color setup 4 (red and cream):
Dark squares: #984850
Light squares: #e4e0d0

- J.