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  • Book review: ZUKA

    Fight the King's Indian, Gruenfeld, and Dutch defenses with ZUKA by David Rude.Thinker's press, Inc. 2012, Davenport, IA. 44e0 pages, ISBN: space 101888710-63-2 $29.95 at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Gr%C3%BCnfeld-Defenses-stand-alone-cohesive-... | Read More

  • Tactics, Tactics, Floating in the Air

    IMPORTANT: [At the end of the puzzles, you should click MOVE LIST so you can see my instructive notes and variations. If you are having trouble solving a problem, just click SOLUTION, and then MOVE LIST. Even if you solve everything, DO click MOVE... | Read More

  • Fighting For Your Chessboard Rights!

    IMPORTANT: [At the end of the puzzles, you should click MOVE LIST so you can see my instructive notes and variations. If you are having trouble solving a problem, just click SOLUTION, and then MOVE LIST. Even if you solve everything, DO click MOV... | Read More

  • Russia vs. China Match: Rapid Chess

    If you have read Part I of the article, you already know that China prevailed in the classical games over Russia: 26-24. Now even more points were at stake: 100 instead of 50; contested in rapid chess. This offered us good chances to overcome our ... | Read More

  • A History of Blitz

           Today, possibly 90% of chess is played on the internet and possibly 90% of the chess games on the internet are played at fast time controls.  Classical chess is still the Gold Standard, but fast games seem to be coin of the realm. ... | Read More

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    • "Morphy's Games of Chess" by Philip Sergeant

      Today I'm gonna be reviewing the book Morphy's Game of Chess by Philip Sergeant. About The Book: Publication Date: June 1, 1957 | Series: Dover Chess Three hundred games by the greatest player of all time: 54 against such masters as Anderss... | Read More

      • Luidefunes
      • | May 19, 2013
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    • About Paul Morphy

      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

      • Luidefunes
      • | May 18, 2013
      • | 50 views
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    • Random Thoughts of Pharue, #1

      So, I fell in love with the Bird's Opening for awhile... Played it quite a bit to get various lines, etc, and then I played against Rybka 2.2 (1200 ELO) in Arena. A few games later, finally decided I'm going back to being unpredictable. Now, what ... | Read More

      • Pharue
      • | May 11, 2013
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    • Move Over TV News

      Great News youtube.com/watch?v=rfXUWeuotWQ youtube.com/user/proofofLastdays/videos hummingbird027.com The Harbinger youtube.com/watch?v=_GyZZmhE66k Great news reports, but she is a post trib'er youtube.com/watch?v=c6sLWvNeZ3A Great teachings ... | Read More

    • Bertin Gambit: What Would You Give for an Attack?

           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

      • batgirl
      • | May 5, 2013
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  • ECO Openings With Moves

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    A00-A39 White first moves other than 1. e4, 1. d4: A00 Irregular Openings Anderssen's Opening: 1. a3 Anderssen's Opening, Polish Gambit: 1. a3 a5 2. b4 Anderssen's Opening, Creepy Crawly Formation: 1. a3 e5 2. h3 d5 Anderssen's Opening, An... Read More »

  • Fool's Mate

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    Fool's mate, also known as the "two-move checkmate," is the quickest possible checkmate in the game of chess. One example consists of the moves leading to the position shown... There are eight slight variations on the pattern — White might p... Read More »

  • From's Gambit

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    A countergambit against White's Bird's Opening: 1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6. While this looks pretty tame as gambits go, since no Black piece is aimed directly at White's King, an example of how things can get out of hand is 4. Nf3 g5 5. d4 ... Read More »

  • Bird, Henry Edward

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    Henry Edward Bird (1830-1908) was an accountant and strong amateur player from England.   In 1851, at the age of 21, he was invited to the first international chess tournament, held in London.  In round 1, he was knocked out by Bernhard Horwitz... Read More »

  • Antoshin, Vladimir

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    Vladimir Sergeyevich Antoshin (ahn-TOE-sheen) was born on May 14, 1929 in Moscow. In 1954, he was part of the Soviet team that won the silver medal in first ever Student Chess Olympiad in Oslo.  He played 1st reserve.  Korchnoi played board 1.... Read More »

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