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 Kill KID By Semko Semkov Softback:p.140 Chess Stars.2009 http://www.chess-stars.com/   "Warning! Do not kill any kid around, I only refer to the King's Indian Defence! That one, I am trying to kill for more than 20 years." These words of... http://www.chess.com/article/view/kill-kid Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:01:33 -0800 http://www.chess.com/article/view/kill-kid When you have to drive somewhere you have never been before, there are two types of people.  One type gets a map and plots a route to the destination, prints out driving directions from the computer, or uses a GPS navigator.  The other type reli... http://www.chess.com/article/view/driving-without-directions Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:55:46 -0800 http://www.chess.com/article/view/driving-without-directions http://www.chesspublishing.com/content/ Chesspublishing.com is celebrating its 10th Anniversary.The tiny sapling that was planted a decade before has now become a banyan tree.Cheers.What is more, every one is invited to the party.If you visit ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/what-is-new-in-theoryoct09 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:29:35 -0800 http://www.chess.com/article/view/what-is-new-in-theoryoct09 Last week we saw the sidelines of the Botvinnik System and for this week we shall head into the mainlines of this system. This system a couple of years ago was considered very dangerous for Black and was played only by few Elite Players. But now t... http://www.chess.com/article/view/botvinnik-sytem-part-2-by-gm-magesh-and-gm-arun Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:03:08 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/botvinnik-sytem-part-2-by-gm-magesh-and-gm-arun For better or for worse, the opening tends to be the aspect of the game that gets the most attention. More books have been written about that phase than the middlegame and endgame combined. This importance, though, is probably overstated at lower ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/developing-an-opening-repertoire Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:02:55 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/developing-an-opening-repertoire ChessPaladin2009 asks: The subject of my question to you is: when White opens with the Queen Pawn, what are black's best defensive opening option(s)? Some people say that Queen Pawn Openings always lead to positional chess games that often lack a... http://www.chess.com/article/view/options-for-black-vs-1d4 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:21:39 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/options-for-black-vs-1d4 This week in our article we shall see The Botvinnik System. We wanted the readers to understand the opening clearly. So to begin with we decided to check the side lines that are played by white against this system. In this system White is consider... http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-botvinnik-system-part-1-by-gm-magesh-and-gm-arun Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:24:20 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-botvinnik-system-part-1-by-gm-magesh-and-gm-arun A blog appeared by farbror (10/05/2009) that claimed I seemed to be recommending the Latvian Gambit to chess.com readers while badmouthing the same opening on my site. Dear farbror and all the people that think I have turned into a Lativan Gambit... http://www.chess.com/article/view/splat-the-lat-not-quite Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:40:00 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/splat-the-lat-not-quite I have long said that chess requires intelligence and character. This is the motto of the Grandmaster Chess School operated by Alexander Khalifman and Gennady Nesis. They express it as a formula, "chess = intellect + character." The school is in S... http://www.chess.com/article/view/khalifman-busts-seirawans-caro-kann Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:18:04 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/khalifman-busts-seirawans-caro-kann This week we shall see an old line in the Sicilian Pelikan or the Sveshnikov Variation. This system was very popular in the seventies and after taking a break it sprung back to life in the late nineties especially after a couple of strong wins by ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-forgotten-system-in-the-sicilian-pelikan-by-gm-magesh-and-gm-arun Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:52:32 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-forgotten-system-in-the-sicilian-pelikan-by-gm-magesh-and-gm-arun Basheer Unneenkutty asked: Today I had a game in which my opponent played 3...Nxe4? in the Petroff Defense: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nxe4. I played 4.Qe2 (aiming Nc6+ to get black's Queen). He responded with 4...d6 and after 5.Nxf7 Kxf7 6.Qx... http://www.chess.com/article/view/petroff-gone-bad Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:35:23 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/petroff-gone-bad This week we shall study another interesting early g2-g4 idea in the Slav Defence. To play against the Slav Defence Meran is not everybody's choice. The side that comes up with a new idea has a better chance of winning the game. For white players ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-latvian-bayonet-by-gm-magesh-and-gm-arun Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:44:54 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-latvian-bayonet-by-gm-magesh-and-gm-arun In this final part of the series I shall explain what works for Black and what doesn't against the Groningen Attack.Let us start with 4...0-0.This plays right into White's hands as his moves 4.g4 and 5.Rg1 are aimed at the castled king.How about ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-beat-the-groningen-attackpart-ii Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:53:38 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-beat-the-groningen-attackpart-ii This opening made its debut in Groningen at the 1997 FIDE World Championship. That was how it acquired the name, Groningen Attack. The line 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.g4 has shock value. But if you are prepared, it loses its effect. Last tim... http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-beat-the-groningen-attackpart-ii2 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:07:00 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-beat-the-groningen-attackpart-ii2 Chronotis asks: One bit of common advice for selecting openings is to choose those that match your style of play. I have three questions about this. Do players under master class really have a style other than patzer style? Supposing we do, how w... http://www.chess.com/article/view/picking-an-opening-by-style Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:13:38 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/picking-an-opening-by-style The recent losses of  GM Magesh, one of our own authors to the Groningen Attack* have thrown a kind of creative challenge to all of us. First of all, we would not like a friend to lose, and  not  in this  dreaded opening.While GM Magesh ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-meet-the-groningen-attack-1nf3-nf6-2c4-e6-3nc3-bb4-4g4 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:38:41 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-meet-the-groningen-attack-1nf3-nf6-2c4-e6-3nc3-bb4-4g4 Most smart players have a knack for taking their opponents into uncomfortable areas very early in the game. Like we have discussed in previous articles, chess not only involves strategy over the board, but also before the actual game is started. S... http://www.chess.com/article/view/caught-off-guard Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:30:36 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/caught-off-guard http://www.chesspublishing.com/content/ For first time readers:This is a series devoted to recent developments in theory from ChessPublishing.com. While it would not be possible to deal with every TN on the site,the focus would be both on topica... http://www.chess.com/article/view/what-is-new-in-theorysept2009 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:40:48 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/what-is-new-in-theorysept2009 Alexei Shirov was born on July 4, 1972 in Riga, Latvia. He was World Champion Under 16 in 1988 and became a grandmaster in 1990. He defeated Vladimir Kramnik in a match to play a world championship match against Garry Kasparov. Instead of playing ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/shirov-against-the-slav-exchange Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:48:19 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/shirov-against-the-slav-exchange This week we shall have a look at the Dutch Defence. To begin with we have an interesting concept, the 'h-file operation.' Usually the advancement of the h-pawn occurs in variations like Sicilian Najdorf, Dragon, Classical System, KID samisch vari... http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-h-file-operation-in-the-dutch-defence-by-gm-magesh-and-gm-arun Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:25:55 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-h-file-operation-in-the-dutch-defence-by-gm-magesh-and-gm-arun