This week's puzzle is authored by Grandmaster Dr. John Nunn, one of the world's best known chess players and authors. It's a deceptively simple looking affair until you spend some time with it. We wish you the best of luck finding the solution which we will post here sometime after January 1st. Our thanks to Dr. Nunn and ChessBase.com for this little brain teaser.

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This week we invite you to try your hand at some simple tactics involving forks. Just as basketball players practice layups and free throws, chess players need to practice elementary tactical positions over and over until solving them becomes second nature. In each position it is White to move and you are asked to find the fork. Solutions appear after Diagram 10. Good Luck!

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The Australian player C. J. S. Purdy wrote in his book Guide to Good Chess, "You can play chess with the wizards of the chess world, living or dead, any time and anywhere you like, at negligible cost. The wizard's games are printed--in a simple notation--and you just play the games over, understanding little at first but gradually more and more." We're taking Purdy's advice this week with a game from one of the all-time great wizards of the game, Paul Morphy. This game was played nearly 150 years ago! Annotations provided by the Encyclopedia of Openings CD by Convekta, Ltd.

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This week it's Mate in 2 puzzles! If you can't get some of these don't feel bad, just remember the world champion missed a Mate in 1 this week! Thanks to Richard James and his awesome site ChessKIDS.com for providing the positions for this week's quiz.

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This week we challenge you with ten more tactics problems with motifs including double attacks, discovered attacks, and some not so obvious attacks! Thanks to Richard James and his awesome site ChessKIDS.com for providing the positions for this week's Tactics Quiz.

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Tactics are one of the most important keys to understanding chess. The best way to understand tactics is to practice with lots of tactical problems. With this Tactics Quiz we begin a series of tactical quizzes to challenge you and make you a stronger chess player. Thanks to Richard James and his awesome site ChessKIDS.com for providing the positions for the Tactics Quiz 1.

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Welcome to Not for Kids Only. Here you'll find puzzles, games, problems and other fun chess activities for kids--and kids at heart. You can access Not for Kids Only by clicking on the "kids" link from any ChessMaine.net page. We hope you enjoy this new resource and as always we welcome your comments

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