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Christmas Puzzles 2014 – Curious chess

12/31/2014 – New Year's Eve is a time for light-headed celebration, for Champagne and fireworks, for parties and laughter. In this spirit we bring you the seventh installment of our Christmas puzzle with a number of curious chess problems which are not hard to solve but require a keen sense of humour. They all come from an author who inspired our 2002 Christmas column. Enjoy.

Christmas Puzzles 2014 – My Favourite Studies (2)

12/30/2014 – As mentioned before, artistic endgame studies used to be great fun, providing human brains hours of solving pleasure. Until the day when this was replaced by the less challenging action of pressing Alt-F2 in a computer program. In part two of this article our senior editor Frederic Friedel helps the flesh-and-blood thought processes along with some useful solving hints.

Christmas Puzzles 2014 – My Favourite Studies

12/29/2014 – Chess endgame studies used to be great fun, especially the creative and artistic variety that brought hours of solving pleasure. These days you simply enter the position in a computer and hit "Go". The solution usually appears in milliseconds, giving you milliseconds of enjoyment. Why don't you try to work with a chessboard and pieces. Here are two studies with solving instructions.

Fifteen years of ChessBase Christmas Puzzles

12/27/2014 – For the fifteenth time we end the year with our traditional Christmas puzzles. To celebrate we bring you a retrospective of some of the best puzzles from the early years. Remember some of our readers were not born when we started, for others it may bring back nostalgic memories. Looking back at 2001 today we have added two "retro" problems by Raymond Smullyan.

Christmas Puzzles 2013 – the prizes

3/10/2014 – Our 2013 Christmas puzzle contest ended with a flood of entries, submitted by readers from around the globe. They were all vying for the valuable prizes: programs signed with a personal dedication by the participants of the strongest tournament in chess history. We bring you a small sample of letters and the names of the three lucky winners. Are you amongst them?

Christmas Puzzles 2013 – solutions (2)

2/4/2014 – The winners of our 2013 Christmas puzzle contest will be announced after the Zürich Chess Challenge (where their prizes will be signed). The puzzles were selected by problem expert GM John Nunn, who gave us the solutions to the first four, and now provides his wonderfully lucid explanations for the remaining problems. In addition we give you the solutions to our brain teasers.

Christmas Puzzles 2013 – solutions (1)

1/22/2014 – The prize contest is now closed, we have received your entries and will announce the winners after the Zürich Chess Challenge (where the prizes will be signed) at the beginning of February. The seven chess puzzles were selected by GM John Nunn, who now gives us the solutions to the first four, with extensive explanations that make them interesting even to readers who are not problem fans.

ChessBase Chrismas Puzzles 2013

12/31/2013 – It's been a great year, with more chess than ever before – and more visitors than ever before flocking to our news site. We thank them for the wonderfully positive feedback we routinely receive, which makes our whole endeavour eminently worthwhile. As always we end the year with our traditional Christmas puzzles, and once again we have entrusted multiple world champion solver John Nunn with their selection. Now with all seven puzzles.
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