Submitted by
WIM energia on Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:44am.
The last article was about how to collect a library of positions and use it to improve your chess. This would improve your technique, increase the quantity of familiar positions, and make you overall a better player, but chess is a game too and on... Read more »
2779 reads | 9 comments | 2 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:01am.
Russians versus Fischer
by Dmitri Plisetsky and Sergey Voronkov
Hardcover, 462 pages
Everyman Chess.2005
http://www.everymanchess.com/
There is only one player who has beaten Bobby without making a single move on the board. No, hi... Read more »
1625 reads | 33 comments | 1 vote:
Submitted by
billwall on Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:11pm.
In 1968 the movie entitled The Thomas Crown Affair was released, starring Steve McQueen as Thomas Crown and Faye Dunaway as Vicki Anderson. Thomas Crown stages a two million dollar bank heist while Vicki is the insurnace investigator who suspect... Read more »
2266 reads | 15 comments | 1 vote:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:32am.
Russians versus Fischer
by Dmitri Plisetsky and Sergey Voronkov
Hardcover, 462 pages
Everyman Chess.2005
http://www.everymanchess.com/
http://www.chess.com/article/view/russians-versus-fischerpart-x
How time flies!Today many see Ka... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM arunabi on Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:03am.
Last week we saw the sidelines of the Botvinnik System and for this week we shall head into the mainlines of this system. This system a couple of years ago was considered very dangerous for Black and was played only by few Elite Players. But now t... Read more »
1980 reads | 9 comments | 2 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:12am.
Russians versus Fischer
by Dmitri Plisetsky and Sergey Voronkov
Hardcover, 462 pages
Everyman Chess.2005
http://www.everymanchess.com/
http://www.chess.com/article/view/russians-versus-fis... Read more »
2188 reads | 38 comments | 4 votes:
Submitted by
GM vbhat on Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:02am.
For better or for worse, the opening tends to be the aspect of the game that gets the most attention. More books have been written about that phase than the middlegame and endgame combined. This importance, though, is probably overstated at lower ... Read more »
5341 reads | 21 comments | 3 votes:
Submitted by
IM Silman on Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:21am.
ChessPaladin2009 asks:
The subject of my question to you is: when White opens with the Queen Pawn, what are black’s best defensive opening option(s)? Some people say that Queen Pawn Openings always lead to positional chess games that often lack... Read more »
7128 reads | 34 comments | 7 votes:
Submitted by
SWRR2009 on Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:30am.
Hi again everyone,
This time we will try to take a look at how black can answer a variation which a lot of sources consider to be critical to the whole survival of the Dragon. I’ve tried to include a lot of possible deviations for black tha... Read more »
1917 reads | 20 comments | 1 vote:
Submitted by
GM Gserper on Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:53pm.
The Ponziani Opening is one of the oldest openings in chess (it was mentioned for the first time in 1497!). Yet it was never really popular. Top chess players avoid it because Black has many reliable ways to equalize. For the club players the open... Read more »
4669 reads | 18 comments | 4 votes:
Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:54pm.
Arthur Bisguier was born October 8, 1929. He became an International Grandmaster in 1957. He remembers when "there were so few of us." He was the US Junior Champion in 1948 and 1949. He was the US Open Champion in 1950, 1956, and 1959. Fischer won... Read more »
1049 reads | 25 comments | 0 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:16pm.
Russians versus Fischer
by Dmitri Plisetsky and Sergey Voronkov
Hardcover, 462 pages
Everyman Chess.2005
http://www.everymanchess.com/
The Secret Meeting
Anatoly Karpov and Bobby Fischer met for the first time in the Fried Chicken To... Read more »
1642 reads | 26 comments | 2 votes:
Submitted by
WIM energia on Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:26pm.
Two years ago I spent the summer in Ukraine, a chess Mecca, took chess lessons, played a couple of tournaments. In theory I know many methods that are designed to improve your chess, but in practice I hardly ever put... Read more »
4485 reads | 21 comments | 5 votes:
Submitted by
GM arunabi on Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:24am.
This week in our article we shall see The Botvinnik System. We wanted the readers to understand the opening clearly. So to begin with we decided to check the side lines that are played by white against this system. In this system White is consider... Read more »
3368 reads | 9 comments | 0 votes:
Submitted by
repecmps on Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:58am.
Chess training program for ratings < 1200
Disclaimer:These advice are taken from my personal (short) experience. They are written by a novice for the novice.
I only release my ideas today to the public. Nobody ever tried these programs and I ... Read more »
2439 reads | 32 comments | 6 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:32am.
Russians versus Fischer
by Dmitri Plisetsky and Sergey Voronkov
Hardcover, 462 pages
Everyman Chess.2005
http://www.everymanchess.com/
“Spassky was a very talented man, but his character was weak, he didn’t work hard, he was lazy ... Read more »
2528 reads | 21 comments | 4 votes:
Submitted by
SWRR2009 on Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:28am.
Hi guys, you know the rules to predicting these games, stop when you hit the highlighted portions and answer before moving on. Take all the time you want and good luck!
Almasi,Zoltan - Watson,William N
German Bundesliga, 1995
1.... Read more »
3891 reads | 25 comments | 5 votes:
Submitted by
GM vbhat on Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:30pm.
Before playing in the Montreal International this fall, I spent a good amount of time studying strong GM games (usually Kasparov games) and middlegames, but I also spent some time reviewing some technical endgames and my openings.
For such a stro... Read more »
2742 reads | 15 comments | 0 votes:
Submitted by
IM Silman on Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:40pm.
A blog appeared by farbror (10/05/2009) that claimed I seemed to be recommending the Latvian Gambit to chess.com readers while badmouthing the same opening on my site.
Dear farbror and all the people that think I have turned into a Lativan Gambit... Read more »
3187 reads | 44 comments | 3 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:08pm.
Russians versus Fischer
by Dmitri Plisetsky and Sergey Voronkov
Hardcover, 462 pages
Everyman Chess.2005
http://www.everymanchess.com/
Boris Spassky enjoyed the indulgence of authorities not only because he was the world champion. He ha... Read more »
1566 reads | 9 comments | 3 votes:
Submitted by
GM Gserper on Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:08am.
Before we start the discussion about the Latvian Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 f5), I have a confession to make. I never really trusted in this opening. It is one thing to play a risky King's Gambit and it is a totally different thing to play the same... Read more »
4471 reads | 28 comments | 4 votes:
Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:18pm.
I have long said that chess requires intelligence and character. This is the motto of the Grandmaster Chess School operated by Alexander Khalifman and Gennady Nesis. They express it as a formula, "chess = intellect + character." The school is in S... Read more »
1663 reads | 20 comments | 0 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:57pm.
Russians versus Fischer
by Dmitri Plisetsky and Sergey Voronkov
Hardcover, 462 pages
Everyman Chess.2005
http://www.everymanchess.com/
“Well, I still have my music."
-Taimanov’s comment to Fischer after the Match
Chess... Read more »
1337 reads | 2 comments | 4 votes:
Submitted by
WIM energia on Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:45am.
I just came back from the US Women’s Championship and want to share with you my impressions as well as chess game fragments. First of all, I would like to thank all the chess.com fans who were rooting for me during the Championship; it is amazin... Read more »
3537 reads | 24 comments | 5 votes:
Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:09am.
Russians versus Fischer
by Dmitri Plisetsky and Sergey Voronkov
Hardcover, 462 pages
Everyman Chess.2005
http://www.everymanchess.com/
There was no love lost between Bobby Fischer and Efim Geller.The burly Odessa grandmaster exuded co... Read more »
1606 reads | 13 comments | 2 votes: