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This month exercise features a brilliant game against recent World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik by a young player many anticipate will soon become a world champion himself. At 17 years old, Magnus Carlsen of Norway is already ranked in the top five players worldwide.
In this exercise, players try to imagine up to 10 moves being made from a starting diagram, with the goal of finding all the legal captures and checks that could be made in the envisioned position.
To begin the exercise, choose how many half-moves you want to try to look ahead each turn, and how much time you wish to allow yourself to find all the possible captures and checks. Then decide whether you want to use the default starting position (the one shown on the right) or begin in a different part of the game.
Once you choose a starting target position, the exercise will begin. The clock will be running! Click on squares in the diagram AS IF THE LISTED MOVES HAD ALREADY BEEN MADE to indicate where every move that could make a capture or give check STARTS and ENDS. Correct responses will automatically be notated in the tables -- all you do is click!
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