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 P. master the notary of Hungarian King III. Béla (1172-1196 AD) wrote down the history of Hungarian people. His work is visible in Budapest. This history was written in Latin between 1196 and 1203. Anonymus (P. master) gave the title of his work:...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/besiged-romans-in-the-castle-of-veszpreacutem-ndash-gesta-hungarorumThu, 19 Nov 2009 02:25:55 -0800http://blog.chess.com/cgs/besiged-romans-in-the-castle-of-veszpreacutem-ndash-gesta-hungarorumThis article is connected with my previous article. There is in territory of Romania - where are living Hungarian population - in a little village in Székelyderzs (Darjiu in Romanian) a fortified Church from the early Middle Ages. Today the pari...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/mediaeval-church-and-opening-of-late-middle-agesFri, 16 Oct 2009 13:23:21 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/mediaeval-church-and-opening-of-late-middle-ages I'm writing these rows from Veszprém city where in 9 February died the Romanian handball player Marian Cozma in consequence of gipsy band's attack. He was the member of Romanian representative team and MKB Veszprém team. Here in chess.com was...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/the-cozma-monumentSat, 26 Sep 2009 07:38:47 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/the-cozma-monument                                            In my previous article demonstrated an interesting game of Alekhine. According to a number of people Alekhine made it up. Now i read in his biography that in...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/a-real-alekhine-gameSun, 30 Aug 2009 06:18:34 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/a-real-alekhine-gameGenerally there aren't five Queens in a real chessgame. Earlier was demonstrated four Queens in my article. (Four Queens on the chessboard) Then was playing another chess giant: Andor Lilienthal. Now Alekhine plays with Nikolay Grigoriev who was ...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/alekhinersquos-guinness-record-five-queens-on-the-chessboard-ndash-at-the-same-timeSun, 23 Aug 2009 06:15:34 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/alekhinersquos-guinness-record-five-queens-on-the-chessboard-ndash-at-the-same-timeThe first Hungarian who played chess was Beatrix Queen the wife of Mathew Corvinus King (Mathias Rex). The Queen played chess with the Czech King in July, 1479. On the first picture there is the bust of Beatrix from the Louvre. She wore crown on h...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/bowler-hat-and-blood-of-a-snail-ndash-the-most-beautiful-game-in-dresdenSat, 14 Mar 2009 02:01:01 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/bowler-hat-and-blood-of-a-snail-ndash-the-most-beautiful-game-in-dresdenIt was the motto of great emperor (imperator) Caesar. Morphy toke Caesar's advice when arrived to Europa and swept the European chess kings. But Morphy not only came, saw and won, he was still famous by his exhibitions of blidfold play. Neverthele...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/veni-vidi-vici-ndash-morphy-on-the-diamond-skySat, 28 Feb 2009 06:59:15 -0800http://blog.chess.com/cgs/veni-vidi-vici-ndash-morphy-on-the-diamond-skyIn an interesting way in the Hungarian language the chess pieces are called as dark- and light-coloured pieces. The knight is called as hussar, and so thus we have arrived to the dark-coloured horse, which was the next to the last sacrifice of Ale...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/according-to-the-ancient-pagan-custom-alekhine-sacrificed-his-dark-coloured-horseSun, 25 Jan 2009 08:53:25 -0800http://blog.chess.com/cgs/according-to-the-ancient-pagan-custom-alekhine-sacrificed-his-dark-coloured-horseIt happened 13 years ago. At the beginning of December was published a Morphy-book in Hungary, in my editing, in Hungarian language. My good friend grandmaster István Bilek scrutinized the manuscript and wrote an article in the „Sportissimo" ma...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/morphyologiaTue, 23 Dec 2008 04:19:15 -0800http://blog.chess.com/cgs/morphyologiaThe story revived in the Olympiad in Leipzig in 1960. In the Letelier - Fischer game was a protagonist on the chessboard: the Black Queen. She sent her Rooks forward to raise the White King from his throne, from f2 to e3. As it happened in that m...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/when-the-black-queen-enticed-the-white-king-from-his-throne-ndash-in-a-fischer-gameFri, 19 Dec 2008 10:52:29 -0800http://blog.chess.com/cgs/when-the-black-queen-enticed-the-white-king-from-his-throne-ndash-in-a-fischer-gameThe victory in the Chess Olympiad never came of itself. In 1978 in Buenos Aires was the Olympiad. There were 66 teams of men and 32 of woman. It's a pleasure that the number of teams in Dresden grew to 146 and 111. But the serendepity we could se...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/serendipity-in-the-chess-olympiad-30-years-ago-ndash-the-ribli-ljubojevic-gameMon, 24 Nov 2008 08:33:59 -0800http://blog.chess.com/cgs/serendipity-in-the-chess-olympiad-30-years-ago-ndash-the-ribli-ljubojevic-gameThe day before yesterday began the Chess Olympiad in Dresden, in Germany. In this year was the 30th anniversary that a little country for the first time won before the Soviet Union in the Olympiad and obtained the Gold Medal in Buenos Aires, in 19...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/take-the-bull-by-the-horns-ndash-alekhinersquos-beauty-prize-game-in-the-olympiadSat, 15 Nov 2008 04:07:12 -0800http://blog.chess.com/cgs/take-the-bull-by-the-horns-ndash-alekhinersquos-beauty-prize-game-in-the-olympiadWhen the Queen and Rooks all has left us for ever than begins the battle of light cavalry. In our case they are the two Bishops against the two Knights on the other side. This is the third side of medal as I had wrote in the previous article. Of c...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/the-battle-of-light-cavalry-ndash-and-those-amazing-menFri, 10 Oct 2008 10:16:44 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/the-battle-of-light-cavalry-ndash-and-those-amazing-menLet us see the reverse of the medal! Now the Bishops will be the protagonists as in the previous article were the Knights. In the first game again Chigorin will be the magician. When the game has open characteristic than is good choice the pair of...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/two-knights-against-two-bishops-ndash-when-the-bishops-are-in-the-limelightWed, 01 Oct 2008 04:08:03 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/two-knights-against-two-bishops-ndash-when-the-bishops-are-in-the-limelightMikhail Ivanovich Chigorin fought a great battle for the sake of the case that he could to reveal the real essence of chess-art. In this battle played an important part those literary debates where he was at iusse with one of „Steinitz-Tarrasch ...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/two-bishops-against-two-knights-ndash-in-the-em-lasker---chigorin-gameTue, 23 Sep 2008 06:43:22 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/two-bishops-against-two-knights-ndash-in-the-em-lasker---chigorin-gameIn the London Tournament in 1922 Alekhine remained unbeaten in spite of next game, which indicated winning position for Maróczy at the ending. The 30 years old Alekhine would has been defeated by 52 years old Maróczy, but the Hungarian grandmast...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/perpetual-check-or-victory-in-an-alekhine-ndash-maroacuteczy-gameFri, 19 Sep 2008 05:21:09 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/perpetual-check-or-victory-in-an-alekhine-ndash-maroacuteczy-gameMaróczy’s meetings with Tschigorin, Bird, Owen. March, 1950. In the „Magyar Sakkvilág” (Hungarian Chessworld) Dr. Árpád Vajda congratulates Maróczy on his 80th Birthday. January, 1951. The n...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/marczy-memorial-tournament-in-1952-the-last-part-11thMon, 08 Sep 2008 11:34:31 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/marczy-memorial-tournament-in-1952-the-last-part-11thGéza Maróczy was the uncrowned King of Queen’s endgames. I’ll bring the news from 1925, I’ll browse in the „Magyar Sakkvilág” (Hungarian Chessworld) magazine. There are the commemorations for the ...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/quintette-of-queens-endgames---marczy-is-the-conductorSat, 30 Aug 2008 08:07:33 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/quintette-of-queens-endgames---marczy-is-the-conductorInter armas silent musae. One voluntary banishment, one world war: between 1908 and 1920. At that time Maróczy was far away from chess. After 1920 Maróczy achieved successes of teaching. Among his students was Max Euwe the later ...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/marczy-memorial-tournament-in-1952-10th-partSun, 24 Aug 2008 04:12:00 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/marczy-memorial-tournament-in-1952-10th-partThe Hungarian engineer is forced to accomplish his calculations on the chessboard 100 years ago Maróczy left off the chess-playing on order that to sustain his family by his work. Nowadays to imagine that the best chess-player of the ...http://blog.chess.com/cgs/marczy-memorial-tournament-in-1952-9th-partMon, 18 Aug 2008 06:24:32 -0700http://blog.chess.com/cgs/marczy-memorial-tournament-in-1952-9th-part