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POLGAR-J
POLGAR-J
Location: Turkey
Joined: 5/7/13
Last Online: 5/8/13
Points: 0 points
polgar2013
polgar2013
Location: United Kingdom
Joined: 4/17/13
Last Online: 4/17/13
Points: 0 points
maiaia
maiaia
Location: sopron city, Hungary
Joined: 2/6/13
Last Online: 5/17/13
Points: 31 points
Judit-the-Polgar
Judit-the-Polgar
Location: United Kingdom
Joined: 12/27/12
Last Online: 12/27/12
Points: 1 points
Judit-Polgar
Judit-Polgar
Location: United Kingdom
Joined: 12/24/12
Last Online: 12/25/12
Points: 4 points


    • Choosing an heirloom chess set

      For years I've been playing on roll-up boards and plastic club pieces. I decided it was long past due that I invest in a serious wooden set that any master would be pleased to play on in a high-stakes game. First was the issue of pieces. There ar... | Read More

      • FirebrandX
      • | May 15, 2013
      • | 113 views
      • | 3 comments
    • Villemson's Gambit in the KGA

           Many openings go by various names. The opening(s) we'll be looking at in this presentation not only go by many names, the situation, like gambits themselves, gets very messy, muddy and uncertain very quickly.      The title of this ... | Read More

      • batgirl
      • | May 11, 2013
      • | 1323 views
      • | 9 comments
    • Judit Polgar's Mating Net

      perfect piece coordination! | Read More

      • Ronliv
      • | Apr 24, 2013
      • | 73 views
      • | 1 comment
    • Attack on an uncastled King, Polgar - Mamedyarov Ol. 2002

      Continuing to play through Giddin's 50 Essential Chess Lessons this evening I was treated to this following attack by Judit Polgar. | Read More

      • snits
      • | Apr 23, 2013
      • | 66 views
      • | 0 comments
    • The Famous Double Bishop Sacrifice

      Learn an instuctive castle busting combination from a famous chess game  between Emanuel Lasker and Johann Bauer played in Amsterdam in 1889. This sacrificial combination shows up repeately, most notably in the games between Nimzowitsch and Tarr... | Read More


Video Lessons



  • Polgar, Susan

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    Susan Polgar, born Zsuzsanna Polgar in Budapest, Hungary, was the oldest of three sisters, Judit and Sophia Polgar. She discovered the game purely by accident when she was not quite four years old. She had been rummaging around in a closet looking... Read More »

  • Gulko, Boris

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    Boris Gulko, born Feb 9, 1947 in Germany, is a Grandmaster (1976) and former Soviet champion (1977).  In 1974, he won the Moscow championship.   He tried to emigrate from the Soviet Union for over 7 years and was finally allowe... Read More »

  • Simultaneous play

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    Karl Podzielny played 575 games simultaneously in 1978.  In 30 1/2 hours he  won 533 , drew 27, and lost 15.  Vlastimil Hort played 550 opponents, 201 simultaneously, and lost only 10 games in 1977.  The best record for simulta... Read More »

  • Grandmaster

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    First used in connection with chess as a player of highest class in 1838.  On February 18, 1838, the London newspaper Bell’s Life published a letter by a reader to award the title of Grandmaster to William Lewis.   The title o... Read More »