The following text contains some basic chess concepts and advices, presented in the form of tasks. It was prepared for the Distractions column of the TeX online journal PracTeX, using the program ChessTask, and is aimed at hobby players of any strength. The given positions are all taken from my own games for the chess club SK Soltau, so they are no constructed examples but actually happened. While the tasks themselves are kept rather terse, I try to elaborate things a bit further when I unveil the correct moves at the end of the article. So even if you did not find the solution in first place, you can hopefully learn from the additional information.
Enjoy!
