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  • Back to Back!

    Our club, Modbury, specifically the Modbury Marauders team, which I am in, has won the Interclub tournaments here in Adelaide for the second year running! Back to back champs! And there's one round to go and we have the bye.  The closest team n... | Read More

  • Magnus Carlsen vs. Viswanathan Anand - 2013 Tal Memorial

    The #1 ranked chess player in the world, Magnus Carlsen, battles the reigning World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, in Round 5 of the 2013 Tal Memorial. Carlsen chooses the Rubinstein system of e3 and Ne2 in response to Anand's Nimzo-Indian Def... | Read More

  • Kings Place Rapidplay! Strong rapidplay in London...

    Last Saturday Kings Place near Kings Cross played host to probably the strongest one day event London has held in decades. The format was a 6 round swiss with 30 minutes each to complete the game. 187 players took part, 67 in the top section inclu... | Read More

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  • 02: Rejuvinating

    It's nice to finally play Chess again; this is something I truly love. Unfortunately, I've lost a lot of what I used to have. Over the past few months I've been playing more and more, and I'm getting my skills back. It's a good thing I've started ... | Read More

    • Ghostwoof
    • | Jun 19, 2013
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    • | 1 comment

  • Beauty and Entertainment: To Queen or not to Queen

    This looong puzzle has been featured in 2012 in an entertaining Video by GM Gregory Kaidanov. Highly recommended. Here is a tiny variation that lets black survive one move more.   | Read More

    • zaq42
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 20 views
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  • My State Chess Championships Game

    i won 3, lost 2. here is one game. i might show the other ones too. | Read More

    • 55575chess
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 17 views
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  • wow

    Just took a shit today. | Read More

    • k2killer
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 21 views
    • | 1 comment

  • New Username

    As You all know, my old username was TheBlueKnight9, But I changed it lastnight! I am woundering when I will be able to change it again (back to TheBlueKnight9) Because it will not allow me to do so! I have a friend who has changed his username th... | Read More

  • One of my Favorite postions

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    • 55575chess
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 20 views
    • | 1 comment

  • iBall Slide 7334i: 10.499 rupias lanzaron la tarjeta dual de la tableta 3G llamada en espera dual ef

    Mercado de Tablet PC en la India ha sido testigo de una gran empresa que viene de otros fabricantes, como el Kindle Fire de Amazon, Fonepad y otros de Asus y más, la India tiene su propio fabricantes Karbonn y Micromax interno, su precio atractiv... | Read More

    • tianyu1001
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 9 views
    • | 0 comments

  • Back to Back!

    Our club, Modbury, specifically the Modbury Marauders team, which I am in, has won the Interclub tournaments here in Adelaide for the second year running! Back to back champs! And there's one round to go and we have the bye.  The closest team n... | Read More

    • BorgQueen
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 44 views
    • | 2 comments

  • Magnus Carlsen vs. Viswanathan Anand - 2013 Tal Memorial

    The #1 ranked chess player in the world, Magnus Carlsen, battles the reigning World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, in Round 5 of the 2013 Tal Memorial. Carlsen chooses the Rubinstein system of e3 and Ne2 in response to Anand's Nimzo-Indian Def... | Read More

  • wolf music...straight outta real leapordskin...

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    • wolfven
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 19 views
    • | 0 comments

  • Connect with Kosteniuk on Social Sites

    Hi everybody! I want all chess players to connect with me on all Social sites, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Email and more. http://goo.gl/n5bES <--- Here is how to do it! | Read More

  • A Friendly Game

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  • Magnus Carlson

    Are there any recent GM Tournaments that Magnus Carlson played in? | Read More

    • Bookfair
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 19 views
    • | 0 comments

  • Game #1 Analyzed.

    Below is my first game on chess.com.  I will be analyzing every game I play here in one way or another, possibly including youtube videos.  I play on other chess sites and my rating is typically between about 1600 and 1900.  Here, I have to sta... | Read More

  • Putting the Pieces Together

    I have been focusing almost exclusively on calculation and visualization for the past two years.  I believe it has significantly helped my chess, but I won’t know for sure until I get back into playing local tournaments (once my boys get a bit ... | Read More

    • roi_g11
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 65 views
    • | 0 comments

  • Pawns In The Endgame

    This post will show you how to use your pawns in the endgame. I will mainly focus on K and pawn, K and rook, and K and queen endgames for now, since covering all pawn endgames would be too much for one post.     I hope you enjoyed my p... | Read More

    • pianoman4
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 60 views
    • | 1 comment

  • Chess Tactics 101, Lesson 1

    Sharpen your tactics with these tactical motifs to train your brain to recognize the important and powerful tactical patterns that  show up in chess games repeatedly. These are the basic tactical maneuvers used in building complex combinations. ... | Read More

  • Queens Pawn

    Any thoughts? | Read More

  • 20130619 Lesson 0002

    Backwards Pawns: trade them for good pawns Bishop pairs: good when center is open Rook behind passing pawns Chase Knigts away from center | Read More

  • Me awesome!

    Me awesome! You awesome? ME AWESOME! You awesome! | Read More

  • Rubinstein Demolishes The French!

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    • Reyth
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 52 views
    • | 2 comments

  • Learning Tactics High Rating

    Visit and learn.Please click the following link :http://www.chess.com/tactics/problems?sortby=rating_hard&page=1 ***** Click the numbers under ID# Example : then you can analyze yourself,or if you want to know the solution,Click the arro... | Read More

    • Ninzo
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 73 views
    • | 1 comment

  • Recongizing Eternal_Patzer

    You may or may not know Eternal_Patzer, also known as EP. He is a great friend of mine as well as founder of a great group called the Dan Heisman Learning Center. This group has been around for almost a year and is already at 2400 members! EP has ... | Read More

  • chess_loves

    Drag the pieces to solve! 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 a b c d e f g h HELPRESTARTSOLUTION White to move Want more chess puzzles? Want a tactics rating? Check out the Tactics Trainer and 10,000+ tactical puzzles! | Read More

    • munnu_jain
    • | Jun 19, 2013
    • | 19 views
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  • Daily Puzzle 6/19/13

    I loved the daily puzzle today. Definitely "short and sweet"! In my younger years, I would probably not have seen the easy checkmate because I would be protecting my queen like a baby! I'm happy to say I have improved LOTS as a chess player. | Read More

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