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Victor Korchnoi- matured with age, but for most it's a different experience.
Why do chessplayers get weaker? There are a number of explanations for why chessplayers decline with age, but one of the primary ... | Read More
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History books are wonderful windows into the human past but beware, they can also be misleading. On the whole, historians do a remarkable job of piecing together what happened long ago but they too make mistak... | Read More
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I am going to be hosting an unofficial tourney on chess.com that uses Swiss pairings. How it works is, first you register. To do that, send me a message with your username and your current rating and the section your entering (U1000, U1400, U1700,... | Read More
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[Scene:Bpawneo and Wpawniet's Tragic Story]
(A voice trails off) "King, King!"
WKing: 0h my dearest Queen! What's the matter?
WBishop: Your highness, one of our pawns have been taken !
WRook comes in looking broken..
WQueen: No ! My beloved p... | Read More
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I played a 3 minutes blitz game against one of the best blitz players of the World.
He is Grandmaster Emanuel Berg, one of the best players from Sweden.
He played the french defense, an aggressive line to exchange the light bishops. I prevent... | Read More
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Since I've started coaching on Saturdays I've curtailed my involvement in tournaments quite a bit. In fact since the North Carolina Open on Labor Day, the only rated games I've played were in the Triangle Chess League on Thursday nights. League pl... | Read More
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Learning chess is quite a journey. If you have a bit of a talent, you will progress quickly in the beginning. But what next, since the topic is so vast and the amount of material so intimidating?
First bruises
Well, your tournament games can be ... | Read More
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The league is messed up at the moment ,so much so that we are not sure if we are still in a relegation dog fight or unlikely title contenders. Best think the former at the moment and get points on the board, well after our dreadful start to the se... | Read More
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Hi everyone!
For fun, while teaching my daughter how to move the knight, I recorded a 1-minute video showing going fast from a1 to the other 3 corners of the board and back to a1 as fast as possible.
If you can do it faster than me, I'll give yo... | Read More
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Last weekend, I played WA Class, a pretty big tournament
From all the past failure tournaments, this one was probably the worst of them all.
The tournament was 6 rounds long, and I played in the highest section, where 2000 is the lowest one can ... | Read More
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Five months, 175 hours, and 1200 tactics problems later, I've completed the Seven Circles tactics training program.
I plan to write a recap blog post or two on lessons I learned following this intense program. There are some small changes I made ... | Read More
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Recently, interesting things are happening to me. I start to play alot more "Online chess" because I got wifi on my mobile devices, and it is easier to create challenges on chess.com app than using the website itself. Therefore I started playing a... | Read More
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Chennai, India
The World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between the defending world champion Viswanathan Anand of India and challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway, winner of the 2013 World Championship Candidates Tournament.
Carlsen... | Read More
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This month, rather than puzzles from actual games, the puzzles are all composed positions, mostly chess problems. The world of chess problems is a centuries old art and has produced a wide range of spectacular achievements. W... | Read More
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This is a brief review of the 2013 World Chess Championship match between reigning champion Viswanathan Anand, and challenger Magnus Carlsen. This best of 12-game match was held in Chennai, India in November of 2013. The video shows all moves of a... | Read More
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The day I met Kasparov.
Kasparov- not the nicest bloke you'll ever meet. They say you should never meet your heroes. They're not far wrong. In the v... | Read More
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After 1921 Capablanca held his title for 6 years, but no challengers were able to fund a match. Then 1927 and Alexander Alekhine happened...
Capablanca - Alekhine, 1927, 3-6-25 (Notes from Chessbase)
The Cuban Grandmaster was heavily favored. H... | Read More
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Anand-Carlsen 0-1 in One-Game Match>
Mc Murhy tried it in One Flew of the Cookoo's Nest, but failed. Anand did try too, to be honest. In just one single game of the match (perhaps the most uneventful in the history of chess World championships)... | Read More
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I first published this on my blog today, which can be found here: http://thechesscoachingwebsite.blogspot.co.uk/
Magnus Carlsen with his trusty orange juice- the undisputed 16th world champion.
Finally a new era has... | Read More
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I've seen some complaints about the short length of the championship match. Like, if it were longer, Anand would still have the chance to catch up. Yes, there were instances of recovering from -3 disadvantage (Steinitz, Euwe and Smyslov pulled tho... | Read More