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The queen is a powerful piece with lots of admirers. Many bow for her and handle her with respect.
The king is a loser, needs protection all the time, except in the endgame where the king can free himself and do all the crazy things.
Looking at ... | Read More
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I recently acquired a copy of the much acclaimed and long out of print The Best Move by GMs Hort and Jansa. The book presents the readers with 230 test positions to solve. These positions are utterly unlike those in the countless other problem boo... | Read More
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This is a Round 1 game from the 2014 FIDE Candidates chess tournament between Vishy Anand and Levon Aronian. The winner of this 14-round tournament, which is being held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, will act as the challenger to Magnus Carlsen in th... | Read More
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The Candidates:
Finally. The moment the whole chessworld have waited for.
The Candidate Chess Tournament 2014, started 13. March.
What many people have talked about, is who´s going to win the tournament and challenge Magnus Carlsen at the Worl... | Read More
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I have discovered the secret to long on-line games with a patient opponent. I just keep my favorite set out and by the hamper and mimic the game on it, giving me a chance to study the situation every time I pass, and that's a lot in my house. ... | Read More
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World Chess Championship Candidates tournament starts tomorrow!
Vishy Anand- is the old king now the kingmaker? And should be very exciting. This is the tournament that will establish the first chall... | Read More
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Welcome to this Blog Post :-)
The most important tournament of the year is starting in just a couple of days - Thursday the 13th will see the first Round of the Candidates tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (Note that sources mention the 11th,... | Read More
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So, chess dot com has these so called "fair play" policies - some are fine, by
It many are asinine.
For instance, if you are taking some time to consider a move, but the server decides you have taken too long, the server will force a resignatio... | Read More
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Players who have quit, or you never hear about anymore.
As I've suggested on this thread many times it's more or less impossible to make a decent living as a chess player, unless you are rated in the top twenty in the world. Demis Hassapis is a f... | Read More
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Welcome to this Blog post :-)
In a recent online rapidgame (15 Mins per player) I went for the Modern Benoni as black in response to White's kingside fianchetto setup vs the Kings Indian. For a while we were following a classic and very famous ga... | Read More
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Several SCU Chess Club members challenged Andrew FitzPatrick in a simultaneous exhibition at the SCU Unibar on Tue 04-Mar-2014. With several onlookers, Andrew defeated all but one challenger, Hayden Van Rys, their game ending in a draw.
Andre... | Read More
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Hello, and welcome to the second to last installment of my increasingly epic saga of one man trying to somehow eek his way to 2200 USCF in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. In this episode I detail my experiences at the Oregon Summer Open of 2... | Read More
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The King's Gambit is sound and should be played!
Recently I read that Hikaru Nakamura thinks the popularity of 1.e4 has declined at the top level due to the effectiveness of the Berlin Defense to the Spanish Opening.
Well in that case, why play ... | Read More
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I'm excited to announce officially via my blog that Super Grandmaster and U.S. Ranked #1 - Hikaru Nakamura - will be joining me, and all of you, on Chess.com/TV - March 5th at 7pm Eastern, 4pm Pacific (GMT -8).
We're calling the first (and hopef... | Read More
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2014 Candidates Tournament will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia between 11-Mar-2014 and 1-Apr-2014 (starting in 3 weeks). The players having qualified for this super tournament are:
1. Viswanathan Anand (IND, former world champion) 2. Vladimir... | Read More
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Yesterday I played in the first qualifier for Taiwan Nationals. And every time, one cannot stop being astonished by ... the lack of common sense and organization skills displayed.
The number of players were 101. The zero tolerance rule is str... | Read More
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Not for nothing is chess known as "the game of kings." No doubt the rulers of empires and kingdoms saw in the game fitting practice for the strategizing and forecasting they themselves were required to do when dealing with other monarchs and chall... | Read More
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There are an endless number of possible variations in chess, even after just a few moves have been played. That said, some chess openings are time-tested and popular. Recognizing and understanding the basics of these openings will increase your co... | Read More
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To talk about my first chess coach I need to start from the very beginning, or at least my chess beginnings.
I think the year was 1982; I was going into 9th grade at the time and hoping to get a remote controlled tank for Christmas from my grandp... | Read More
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“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make people want to shoot themselves.”
- GargleBlaster
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Hello again, and welcome to the, er... actually, I've lost count of how many blogs/articles (blogicles?) I've now written o... | Read More