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6 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 a b c d e f g h PUZZLES Select mode: Rated Learning Rush Solve as many puzzles as you can in 5 minutes! Each puzzle gets harder. 3 strikes and you’re out. Start ...
6 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 a b c d e f g h PUZZLES Select mode: Rated Learning Rush Solve as many puzzles as you can in 5 minutes! Each puzzle gets harder. 3 strikes and you’re out. Start ...
6 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 a b c d e f g h PUZZLES Select mode: Rated Learning Rush Solve as many puzzles as you can in 5 minutes! Each puzzle gets harder. 3 strikes and you’re out. Start ...
By IM David Pruess: Hey there, chess friends! I am happy to announce that Chess.com University is returning to activity in the first week of June, thanks to the efforts of four new directors! With some assistance from IM Rensch and myself, these...
Anti Moscow variation by GM Magesh and GM Arun Submitted by GM thamizhan on Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:47am. Our topic this week has nothing to do with exchanges and slow maneuvering like the ones we saw last week. This week it is all about being imag...
The Icelandic Gambit by GM Arun and GM Magesh Submitted by GM thamizhan on Wed Jul 8, 2009 11:24pm. Today we will take a look into another uncommon opening, The Icelandic Gambit. Even though this variation is not as sharp as the Kings Gambit op...
The French defense by GM Magesh and GM Arun Submitted by GM thamizhan on Wed May 6, 2009 11:43pm. Every player has a unique playing style and that should play a huge role in their opening choice. Notice that we use the word "should" here, since...
The Hypermodern Nimzo by GM Prasad and GM Panchanathan Submitted by GM thamizhan on Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:53am. This week we will be studying the Nimzo Indian defense. This opening was introduced by Grand Master Aron Nimzowitsch who can be called ...
The Ruy Lopez by GM Prasad and GM Panchanathan Submitted by GM thamizhan on Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:21am. It was nice to read your overwhelming responses to last week's Najdorf article. We could see plenty of opening requests, however we are writing...
After a good night's sleep I made sure that all the rooms got at least two wakeup calls the next morning. I went down to have breakfast around 9.30 am and half the team had already finished their breakfast while the remaining decided to skip it. T...
I was hopping around the spectators area in the tournament hall like a mad frog in total anxiety as Soumya Swaminathan, the only medal aspirant for the Indian team, was finishing her penultimate (12th)round game against the Peruvian WIM Cori Tello...
If you are a parent with two kids and one of them is going through tremendous success while the other is just downright depressed? What do you do? Very delicate aint it? I guess only a parent will be able to answer this, but I feel I am in a simil...
When a Roger Federer set foot onto the pale green grass in the Wimbledon this year, nothing less than the championship was expected from him. When a Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar walks into the cricket ground with his cricket bat nothing less than a cen...
It was 2 pm in the afternoon and as always I was packing my bags in the last minute to catch a flight at 5.30 in the evening. For some reason it has become extremely difficult for me not to finish any task before its ultimate deadline in my life. ...
Barcelona is a very nice place to stay with plenty of things to do. For the last couple of weeks we have been engaging ourselves in different leisurely activities here ranging from swimming in some of the best beaches to cooking, napping and ofcou...
As of June 13, 2009, there are four players rated over 2800 (chess.com ratings). The players are: Ouachita (Bobby Johnson) - 2848 LucidDream - 2833 Nonnetrovouno - 2808 cuendillar - 2807 None of these top four players seem to have any ti...
After months of planning and endless conference calls we (2 Grand Masters and 2 International Masters) decided to make this Eurotrip happen. For those who have an American passport or a European union passport, it will be hard to understand why so...