Advent of Chess is an advent calendar by Offerspill, Norway’s biggest chess club with World Champion Magnus Carlsen as founder and chairman. The club is open to anyone, and we host weekly tournaments online. For more information about the club and how to join, see our registration page.

Every day until Christmas, you will be able to open a door to reveal a chess problem. Each correctly answered problem is awarded one ticket in the drawing for a chess board signed by Magnus Carlsen!

The problems in the calendar won’t be the usual chess problems you’d find in a book of chess puzzles. Instead of finding the best move, you’ll get problems where you need to find out which moves have been played in the past, or the sequence of moves that lead to a certain position. You’ll find unorthodox problems like helpmates, selfmates, and retrograde analysis problems, but no “Mate in 2” or “White to play and win”!