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Paul Morphy Years covered: 1848 to 1869 Overall record: +198 -26 =24 (84.7%)* * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games Based on games in the database; may be incomplete. 221 exhibition games, odds ... | Read More
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We had a pretty cool discussion at chess club tonight about chess books. A rapidly improving young player (very strong tactician, the rest of his game will catch up eventually if he's anything like I was...) was asking about which chess books ar... | Read More
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Johnny Marr (1917-2011) was a noted club player in Edinburgh. I did not know him well but did play him in league matches a couple of times. Once, just at the point when I thought I had a winnable position against him but was very nervous about blu... | Read More
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The chess videos here on chess.com are excellent. There are, of course, many great videos for beginners and intermediate players but some are a little too advanced for me. For example why should I care about how a grand master prepares for his ... | Read More
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The Cunningham Defense in the King's Gambit Accepted begins 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Be7. White moves the Bishop to give his King a place to go with 4. Bc4. If Black continues with the threatened 4... Bh4+ and White replies with 5.... | Read More
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Now,everyone who says 1000 rating can be achieved in 1 year of study....... please do not read further.This blog is not useful for you.
In India getting a FIDE rating is incredibly difficult and people with ratings around 1600 do very well in Sta... | Read More
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Here's a rather long and involved posting on the Cunningham that I had created for another forum a while back and which I'm reposting now for anyone who might be interested in such things:
When I first started playing the King's Gambi... | Read More
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Ana and I played in the Panther Open yesterday, run by Cub Noble, one of my favorite chess people. It was a fun tournament, and we enjoyed traveling to Cedar Falls - it was nice to have a new venue! I thought I'd make my boards in this post pu... | Read More
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Welcome everyone to the second instalment of my rook endings blog series.
Having already introduced the Lucena position in part 1 in which the attacker can force a win, this second part looks at a forced draw position known as the Philidor posit... | Read More
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A notação é a forma como os jogos de xadrez são recordados a fim de poderem, com segurança, serem analisados posteriormente. Os signos usados nos sistemas de notação são tal como letras, cujas palavras e textos representam partidas. As est... | Read More
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Welcome to the second book review.
This time, I am reviewing a book by one of the titled masters on Chess.com, Jeremy Silman.
Here is the summary:
For over 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to st... | Read More
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Click on the ECO Code (A00 - E99) to go directly to the game. You can also look games up by the name of the opening (ie Ruy Lopez - Berlin Variation, QGD - Tartakower Defense etc) or by the players names in my other indices.
A00 Sokolsky Openin... | Read More
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hello,i am currently working on rook endgames,but it seems its just too complicate for me to understand.i have an average fide rating(2000+)and on this level its a must to know the rook endgames.i know the basics like lucena,philidor,back rank def... | Read More
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This is a list of 27 most important chess traits represented in form of quotes from the greatest chess players of all times: Kasparov, Fischer, Karpov, Lasker, Tarrasch and many others. To be good at something we need to understand what and how th... | Read More
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Learn the the most important drawing technigue in chess, the Philidor Position (or Philidor's position), also known as the third rank defense. François-André Danican Philidor (September 7, 1726 – August 31, 1795) was a French composer who co... | Read More
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Should the Knight be an attraction at the Circus? All the other pieces move in imaginable ways. The Rook is a duffer who sows the seeds of Hades when he creeps into your backrank. The Bishop acts like it's so proper but then snipes and skewers you... | Read More
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ŠALJIVI ŠAHOVSKI REČNIK
Amater: U šahu - onaj koji igra samo za novac.Analiza: Neoboriv dokaz da ste mogli dobiti partiju koju ste izgubili.Birdovo otvaranje: 1. f4. Otvaranje nazvano po jakom ali kratkovidom engleskom majstoru koji je često... | Read More
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Silver Tape Chess
A few pieces of advice for an improving chess player
Draft 1.0
Why Chess?. 2
Training. 2
Training Schedules. 3
The Stoyko Exercise. 3
Replaying Master Games. 4
Correspondence Chess. 4
Chess Books. 4
Study Bud... | Read More
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A long, long time ago... in September of 1706 in Amsterdam to be exact, a man named Mr. Caze dated his manuscript on chess, "Instruction pour ce livre d'échecs : contenant les diverses manieres de jouer le gambit," in a letter of introd... | Read More
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Click on the opening to go to the game. Multiple entries for the same name and/or ECO code refer to different games and aren't duplicate entries.
Pictured here is the great hypermodern GM Aron Nimzovitch, who probably holds the record for the mos... | Read More