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  • Personal Experience at the U.S. Women's Championship. Part 2.

    In my previous article we looked at the first three games from the U.S. Women's Championship. This article will cover the next three rounds I played. In the round-robin format all the participants play each other, so it seems the order doesn't r... | Read More

  • The Battle of Opposites

    If you have any knowledge of chess history, you have probably heard of the theoretical dispute - and antagonism - between Siegbert Tarrasch and Aron Nimzowitsch, the leaders of the classical and hypermodern schools (respectively). It appears that ... | Read More

  • Personal Experience at the US Women's Championship

    My next few articles will be about the US Championship that took place from May 2-13th in St. Louis. I was a participant in the women's event, where ten players competed for a purse of $65,000 and the title of US Woman Champion. This event is gran... | Read More

  • The Power of Positional Chess (Part 2)

    I’m going to come clean here. It’s time to let the cat out of the bag and admit to something strange and weird. It concerns my chess, and it’s about a particular chess move. No, I’m not going to wax poetic about a favorite opening or favor... | Read More

  • Typical Positions (Part 6)

    Chess openings are a bit like fashion - they follow trends. Certain lines become popular and then just fade away. In most cases, an elite player (or most likely his team) prepares an opening for a tournament and then everyone else follows his lead... | Read More


    • Had a wonderful time today, playing many exciting games. Win or Lose. :)

      Thank you so much for the friendship and the wonderful games with you all. :) Most memorable is the draw I made. I thought I was winning lol. But I can not make any head way with the lone bishop as the pawn will queen if left unattended. Enjoy th... | Read More

    • Chess Openings: Part IV: Beating Evan's gambit

      Hey! This is my 4th part of openings , and I selected it for defensive players. The opening is Evan's gambit and I will show you how to play against it with confidence. Evan's gambit is the 2nd popular continuation of Giuoco Piano (1st popular ... | Read More

    • The Skewer Lure - A Brilliant Chess Game

      The Famous Game "The Skewer Lure " was played between Andrews vs Jassens Game was played in London in th year 1864 The Game started with a Regular "Italian Game" and then to scotch Gambit like below(Italian Game was the most favoured Opening bac... | Read More

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    • My Thirteenth Chess Tournament, Game 1 (Quiet Queen's Pawn)

      In this game I was paired up with one of the lower rated players in my section. Supposedly, he was relatively new to chess. That probably explains why he didn't play a particularly ambitious opening, even though he had the White pieces. The game s... | Read More

    • Wrong computer analysis

      It's funny, how sometimes computer analysis can be wrong at some point. Here is the analysis of one of my games i've played today. On move 31th computer suggests one line, that goes like that  31. Qd7 Bxe4 32. Bb7+ Qxb7 33. Qxe8+ Qb83... | Read More

      • alymbek
      • | May 24, 2013
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Video Lessons



  • To hold your oppponent

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    To hold your opponent to a draw in a chess game is an important skill at all levels of chess I recently played in the Waterkloof chess tournament and manged to hold on for a draw, but I could have won the game had I been in the right state of min... Read More »

  • Algebraic notation

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    This article is about Algebric notation.First we will talk about what the pieces mean: K=king Q=queen R=rook B=bishop N=knight when pawns move,only the destination square is described. Here is an example of an opening with algebric notation... Read More »

  • Blackburne's Mate

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    Note how the white bishops are raking the black king position.White sacrifices the queen with Qxh5 gxh5.Having forced open the diagonal leading to Black's king,White plays Bh7 checkmate.The bishop is protected by the knight on g5. Read More »

  • Zwischenzug

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    The German word zwischenzug means 'intermediate move', and it is a common tactic that occurs in almost every game of chess. Picture your opponent making a move that directly threatens one of your pieces: after you opponent has done this you are ab... Read More »

  • Mating Patterns Part 2

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    Have you read Chessking47's (CK47's) article named Mating Patterns? If not, please head over there and solve the puzzles. I would've have never knew this if it weren't for IM Silman! First, I left off with Legall's Mate, so I will do Morphy's Mat... Read More »