Each month we will send you a short newsletter like this one.

If you are just starting, some of the content of this newsletter may be very hard to understand. But don't worry - as you progress, so you will understand more and more. So keep these newsletters, so that you can come back later to the material you do not understand now - you will find it very useful. Taking out Premium Student Membership puts you on the same ladder as the World Champion and more than 130,000 competition players. You will get a FIDE Student Rating (which puts you on the ladder) and much more besides. As you play games and improve, you will see your rating increase. If you work very hard at chess, you may be able to climb to the top. No matter where you are on the ladder from beginner to World Champion, you can enjoy some of the puzzles that follow. Every single one of them occurred in a game between two juniors. I sincerely hope that you will gain as much pleasure from chess as I do. Have a wonderful 2012.

Gens Una Sumus We Are One Family

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov FIDE President

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Puzzles

Selected by FIDE Senior Trainer Kevin OConnell (www.kochess.com)

3 White to move

1 Black to move :

A.Bajanmuunh-H.Hadrys, World Youth Championship, Girls under 10, Bratislava 1993 2 White to move:

R.Vasquez-S.Gedvilaite, World Youth Championship, Girls under 10, Bratislava 1993 4 Black to move. Is 1Nb4-c2 a good move?

D.Rudistorfer-R.Quintino, World Youth Championship, Boys under 10, Bratislava 1993 SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLES

D.Rudistorfer-R.Quintino, World Youth Championship, Boys under 10, Bratislava 1993

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