ChessDojo Problem Database

The Dojo is building the best database of Training Positions.

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We use only problems that a human has found the answer to, either OTB or in the post-mortem.

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Like in a real game the solver doesn’t know if the position is to win, draw or for an advantage.

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Answers may be positional or involve deep calculation.

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Because the answers have not been computer checked the solver is encouraged to doubt the answer!

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Predecessors to our database are: The Best Move by Hort and Jansa, Perfect Your Chess by Grabinsky and Volokitin, Chess Tactics from Scratch Weteschnik.

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Like the positions from those books we are looking out for positions that catch our eye, maybe show us something new and interesting about chess.

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Because of technology we dream of organizing and presenting the puzzles in a variety of ways: 100 King’s Indian puzzles, 300 Dojo Endgames etc Book, Kindle, Chessable

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Below is a great example, from Perfect Your Chess, of the kind of practical problem we are interested in.

 

White to play.