Chess

The Memento by GM Magesh and GM Arun

After watching Inception, the following were the exact words that lingered in my mind, “Fantastic movie!!! Can someone please tell me the actual story???” I guess the feeling of a movie being above your immediate understanding is the trend these days....Read more »

VIDEO: Couples In Chess

by GM Dejan Bojkov

Grandmaster Bojkov follows up his debut video about piece activity with an extremely instructive lecture on "piece couples" in chess. Mainly, the evaluation of Rook and Bishop vs. Rook and Knight come Watch Video »

Caruana Wins Biel 2010

Fabiano Caruana (pictured) won the Biel Young Grandmasters Tournament after a three way play-off with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son. All three finished on a score of 5.5/9, and since the best mathematical tie-break belonged to Son, he ...Read more »

Keeping A Promise And Doing The Impossible

In my last blog, I was talking about why someone would quit chess, but what gives someone the incentive to win?  What keeps you fighting when the going gets tough?  A lot of that depends on how badly you want it.  If you don’t want it enough, you are...Read more »