Chess

The Decorous Salomon

Salomon Flohr was born November 21, 1908 in what is now Ukraine. He lost his parents during World War I and together with his brother was orphaned as a child and relocated to Czechoslovakia, where he learned chess and became a professional chess player. A...Read more »

VIDEO: Structural Thinking

by GM Melikset Khachiyan

Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan brings us a game in which he used a dominate structure and space advantage to create favorable tactics. When his young opponent, FM Tatev Abrahamyan, miscalculates his resp Watch Video »

Kramnik Gets Second Spot In Bilbao

With Alexei Shriov already having wrapped up first place in the Shanghai Masters, it was left to Vladimir Kramnik and Lev Aronian to stake their claim for the second qualifying spot. Both games in the final round were drawn, and as it turns out (it was no...Read more »

Do Ratings Really Matter?

In one of my previous blogs, someone made a comment basically saying that if you play for rating points maybe you should quit chess.  He goes on to say that you have to play for yourself and the results will come.  And though I agree 100% that you canâ€...Read more »