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Attack and Defense in the Dragon

There are different schools of thought on how a chess player should structure their opening repertoire. Many of the top players nowadays seem to play a huge variety of different openings, each picked to match a particular opponent or a particular competit...Read more »

VIDEO: How to Play Against the Albin Counter Gambit!

by GM Roman Dzindzichashvili

Counter this! GM Roman Dzindzichashvili provides the indoctrination to the Albin-Counter Gambit this weekend, and he doesn't hold anything back! Take Dzindzi's recommendation (particularly, 6.Bg2 inst Watch Video »

European Chess In Schools Campaign

PRESS RELEASE: The Chess in Schools and Communities Campaign (CSC) is working with the Kasparov Chess Foundation Europe on a political campaign to garner support for chess to be introduced to schools Europe-wide. The focus of the campaign is a written de...Read more »

Two united pawns in the sixth line

Hello everyone, this is my first post in chess.com and I want to explain an important idea in the endgame.Two pawns in the sixth line are more strong to a rook , only a rook can't prevent the promotion of one of these two pawn. Diagram 1   The diagram i...Read more »