We wish you the Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2008! May the chess lovers' community grow and get stronger and stronger year by year. In March it will have been four years as our site is online. It grew in­cre­dib­ly with the dis­in­te­res­ted help of hun­dreds of chess fans from all over the world who devoted their leisure time and often money to help the unique data from old, dust-covered ma­ga­zines and bul­le­tins see the sunlight and be freely avai­la­ble for every­one, forever. Thank you all for all! It is great honour to work together.

As the news is published at 11:02 PM it is the very moment when my daughter Teresa was born two years ago. She is now charming and pretty young lady. But that is not all! My wife is going to deliver our second sweetie Klara in February. The bad news is that I still haven't got a son who could one day possibly succeed my chess deed. Time will tell.

There is a Christmas problem for you to solve. Drag your mouse below the brackets to reveal the answer. How fast did you success?
Black to move and mate in 2.

[ 1... bxc3 e.p. (en passant!) 2. a3 (or whatever else) c2# - very easy, isn't it? ]

by Jerzy @ 07 Jan 2008 08:51 pm

Girls can play chess as well so not all is lost ;-)