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New openings booklets and PGN files

Playing against unorthodox openings as Black (English, Reti, Bird's, Grob)

PGN chapter included in file on Swiss Defence
PDF as a separate booklet

All linked from the secret file emailed to the U14s

Reduced and second-hand books from OnionsChess

Our colleague and former chair Tim Onions is selling off some books for advanced players at reduced and second-hand prices: see his website for details.

Good bad and OK pawn moves

We've been going through the multiple-choice questions in Chess Choice Challenge, and some we have done quite quickly. But this one took us most of a session to talk about!

Grotesque!

Otto Blathy composed chess problems. But the ones he liked were a bit funny! The positions could never happen in a game, but they usually had a nice idea in them.

These gnarly positions are called grotesques.

Mr.B showed me this one many years ago: White to play and win! Black is moving down the board -- well, that's if they could move...

Puzzle 1