Online chess community where you can play chess, learn strategies and tactics, read chess news, see book reviews, find rules & tips, get free downloads, and more! http://www.chess.com/ 2007 Chess.com Who is The Champion of The Champions? By Fritz Baumbach, Robin Smith and Rolf Knobel Hardback.224 pages Exzelsior Verlag.Berlin.2008 http://www.zeitschriftschach.de/ Imagine a world champions' tournament in which Fischer,Tal and Kasparov w... http://www.chess.com/article/view/battle-of-giants Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:44:07 -0800 http://www.chess.com/article/view/battle-of-giants Mikhail Tal, the former world champion, and Bent Larsen, the Great Dane, met in a semifinal candidates match in 1965. Larsen was ahead after winning game one. Tal won game two. Games three and four were draws. Larsen won game five and Tal came bac... http://www.chess.com/article/view/tal-larsen-candidates-1965-deciding-game Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:13:12 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/tal-larsen-candidates-1965-deciding-game While I was writing my last article about the "Janowski Bishops," I found an exciting game between Janowski and Chajes, New York, Rice Tournament, 1916. The combination conceived by Janowski, besides being too deep, has an interesting history. Fif... http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-old-master-art Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:17:02 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-old-master-art The past two weeks, I've shared my games from rounds 4 and 6 of the Montreal International. This week, I want to share my game from the 5th round, as white against GM Sergei Tiviakov. With a draw against Bacrot in the books, I was looking to take... http://www.chess.com/article/view/bhatting-practice Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:42:14 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/bhatting-practice UltraCorr3 (CD) Edited by Tim Harding System requirement:ChessBase 8 or higher version ChessMail.2009 http://www.chessmail.com/ http://www.chess.com/article/view/ultracorr3part-i http://www.chess.com/article/view/here-is-gods-plentypart-ii ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/here-is-gods-plentypart-iii Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:49:57 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/here-is-gods-plentypart-iii The games of the old masters were characterized by a more free-wheeling attitude with respect to material. A development advantage was the holy grail for chess players, and they would strive for that lead by sacrificing whatever it took. Pawns wer... http://www.chess.com/article/view/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants3 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:09:52 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants3 The London 1883 chess tournament was one of the most important competitions of the nineteenth century where most of the leading player competed. It was won convincingly by Johannes Zukertort (22/26) ahead of Wilhelm Steinitz (19/26) by three point... http://www.chess.com/article/view/london-1883-and-johannes-zukertort Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:26:32 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/london-1883-and-johannes-zukertort Hi everyone, and welcome to my second "annotated" game from my vast number of blitz games played on live chess here.  This time the game is set to a mere 3 minutes for the entire game.  Be prepared for one heck of a beautiful attacking pattern.Â... http://www.chess.com/article/view/queen-sac---smother-mate Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:49:36 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/queen-sac---smother-mate Miguel Najdorf (1910-1997) was born in Warsaw, Poland. He was playing at the Buenos Aires Olympiad in 1939 when World War II broke out, and decided not to attempt to return home, taking Argentine citizenship.Today I want to share with you a myster... http://www.chess.com/article/view/najdorfs-evergreen-game Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:39:51 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/najdorfs-evergreen-game Zugzwang: A situation in which a player is limited to moves that cost pieces or have a damaging positional effect or A situation in a chess game in which a player is forced to make an undesirable or disadvantageous move.According to Nimzowitsch, w... http://www.chess.com/article/view/zugzwang2 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:59:16 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/zugzwang2 ed note: GM Bhat is in Brazil playing in the Contintental Championship. In his absence, who better to replace him than... a former student of his. IM Sam Shankland has two GM norms and is quite a strong player in his own right. In July he played 3... http://www.chess.com/article/view/liu-shankland Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:54:53 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/liu-shankland The following game was played in Hagerstown (Maryland) City Park, once voted the "second most beautiful city park in America" (I presume Central Park in NYC is first).  I was visiting relatives there, and we decided to go for a walk in the park.Â... http://www.chess.com/article/view/offhand-brilliancy Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:45:47 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/offhand-brilliancy After my tournament in Montreal, I went to Philly to play the 7-day schedule of the World Open. The 7-day featured a pretty small group of players, most of whom were above 2500! After a draw with GM Vladimir Potkin (2721 USCF) in round 1, I got th... http://www.chess.com/article/view/serenity-now Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:32:54 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/serenity-now It was July 2007 and I was playing casually some chess at Playchess.com, when, unexpectedly, my game formula matched me to play a game with the handle called Raffael, which was currently the top blitz player in the honorary list. Well-known by all... http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-games-of-a-chess-coach-winning-against-kasparov Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:44:32 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-games-of-a-chess-coach-winning-against-kasparov In his moment, Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961) played the most perfect chess of the epoch! Many of his games were models of precision. He played the endgames like the gods! said Tartakower, a leading master at the time. Before World War I, Rubinstein... http://www.chess.com/article/view/akiba-rubinstein-the-perfect-artist Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:53:49 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/akiba-rubinstein-the-perfect-artist All of us admire chess sacrifices. Sometimes it is possible to win (quite correctly, not as a result of an opponent’s blunder) even being a piece down. Usually it is connected with an opportunity to convey a tactical operation – give a... http://www.chess.com/article/view/winning-when-a-piece-down Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:25:31 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/winning-when-a-piece-down The fifth world champion Max Euwe (1901-1981) was a truly interesting man: mathematician, engineer, astronomer and computer specialist. He is the only world champion that was not a professional! But this did not impede him from reaching the chess... http://www.chess.com/article/view/max-euwes-immortal-game Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:33:18 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/max-euwes-immortal-game http://www.chess.com/article/view/great-game2 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:46:50 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/great-game2 A game that flows along smoothly until an inconsequential pawn move forces White to resign. White's Queen is surrounded, Black's last move took away her only remaining flight square.  What should/could White play on move 26? http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-immortal-zugzwang-game Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:16:06 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-immortal-zugzwang-game Well as you all can see from my title.. I played a FM and GM!! I played them both on I.C.C. Well the GM the time control was 60 0.. After this game i wasted about 48 minutes and the GM wasted about 52 1/2 minutes. Here it is.. No annotations ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/my-games-verses-a-gm-and-fm Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:18:50 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/my-games-verses-a-gm-and-fm