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  • Book Review: "How I Beat Fischer's Record" - by GM Judit Polgar!

    Today I have the pleasure of reviewing Grandmaster Judit Polgar's new book, How I Beat Fischer's Record for our community here on Chess.com - and I must say I found Judit's work refreshingly honest, surprisingly inspiring, and undeniably as i... | Read More

  • Angry Rooks

    Today we'll talk about a relatively common chess idea known as a "Rook Lift". When you do a Rook Lift, a Rook usually moves from the initial position to the third rank (or sixth rank for Black) and then jumps to the opposite side of the board almo... | Read More

  • Records in Chess

    Best match player.  William Steinitz played 27 chess matches from 1862 to 1896, and won 25 of the 27.    He won 160 games, lost 70, and drew 57.  Best Selling Chess Book. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess has sold over one million copies. Best w... | Read More

  • SOS - Secrets of Opening Surprises

    No time to study opening theory? Shock your opponent with an SOS! With an SOS you deviate early (usually before move 6!) from regular lines in mainstream openings. So you will reach positions you have actually studied without having memorized t... | Read More

  • A Cascade of Tactics

    Collopy: “This game was played in a serious manner (about an hour each spent on it) - although without clocks.” David S (2066) – R. Collopy (1722), Friendly match 2012 ECO: E10 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6                     ... | Read More


    • A Creative Genius

          David Bronstein a Soviet chess Grandmaster, missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. He was one of the world's strongest players from the mid-1940s into the mid-1970s, and was described by his peers as a creative genius and master of ta... | Read More

      • Shadow_47
      • | Apr 30, 2013
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    • Okoboji Open

      Greetings! Spring is now upon is, and woodpushers everywhere are gearing up for the slew of summer tournaments that make the warmest months the best time to get back to the board. Due to work commitments I probably won't be playing as actively as ... | Read More

      • Fins0905
      • | Apr 29, 2013
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    • Budapest Gambit

      One of the lesser played openings at the top level by black - The Budapest Gambit is a very sharp line which gives black excellent tactical opportunities unlike strategic ; which is the main theme of White. most of the games that i have played dur... | Read More

    • On Carl Schlechter . . .

            Sheenagh Pugh is an award winning poet and novelist from Wales. She also teaches creative writing at the University of Glamorgan.      Some of her published poetry books include: Prisoners of Transience Selected Poems Folk Music ... | Read More

      • batgirl
      • | Apr 14, 2013
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    • Chess Traps 101: The Kieninger Trap

      Learn how to play with and against the most frequently seen chess opening trap, the Kieninger Trap, a line from the a chess opening trap in the Budapest Gambit named after the German International Master Georg Kieninger. Together we build... | Read More


  • Candidates Tournament Round 10

    The race for the finish line is underway at the London Candidates Tournament!  In round 10, Vladimir Kramnik scored his second win of the tournament by beating his compatriot Alexander Grischuk with the black pieces in a Berlin endgame. Kramni... | Read More

  • The Strange Case Of The Tournament That Didn't Happen

    Surprisingly, this has nothing to do with FIDE, for once.The 2nd Barcza Memorial Tournament in Budapest was scheduled to run from 6-17 April and had a pretty decent line-up of strong players, including Zoltan Almasi (Elo 2685) and Ivan Sokolov (pi... | Read More

  • Polgar Chess Day

    The 2nd Aquaprofit-Polgar Chess day will be held in the Palace of Arts, Budapest at 3 pm on the 11th of October 2008. All three of the famous Polgar sisters will be giving a huge joint simultaneous exhibition on the day. More details here. The ... | Read More

  • Young Superstars: Fabiano Caruana

    Fabiano Caruana is the youngest US and Italian GM in history.  He was born in Miami, Florida, in 1992, went to school in Brooklyn, played in Queens in the Susan Polgar Club, trained with Pal Benko, defeated a GM at the age of ten, m... | Read More

Video Lessons



  • Abonyi, Istvan

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    Istvan Abonyi (1886-1942) was a Hungarian master.  He was born and died in Budapest.  In 1912, he played the Abonyi Gambit (1.Nf3 d5 2.e4) for the first time. In 1916, he played the Budapest Gambit (1.a3 Nf6 2.b3 e5) against  the Dutch surge... Read More »

  • Indian defense

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    This is going to be an article on the Indian defense. It is the most common reply against 1.d4 by white. It is a rather modern defense, and up until 20th century it was regarded as irregular. This opening is also transpositional, for example black... Read More »

  • Benko, Pal

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    Pal Benko was in Amiens, France on Jul 15, 1928 but grew up in Budapest, Hungary. Benko learned chess from his father in 1938, at the age of 10.  His first book was a collection of Capablanca’s chess games. In June 1945, in his first chess to... Read More »

  • 1933 in chess

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    On January 6, 1933, the 13th Annual Christmas Congress in Hastings ended.  The Premier event was won by Salo Flohr of Czechoslovakia, scoring 7 out of 9 (+5 =4).  He was followed by Pirc (6.5), L. Steiner and Sultan Khan (5.5), Michell (4.5), Al... Read More »

  • Alekhine's Defense

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    The moves 1.e4 Nf6 were played before Alekhine (analyzed by Allgaier in 1819), but Alekhine popularized it.  Alexander Alekhine first played this defense at Budapest in September 1921 against Saemisch and E. Steiner.  By May 1922 it was being c... Read More »