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GM Gserper | Pictures of a chess board and chess pieces are very popular in ads for banks, insurance companies and similar businesses. The companies want to underline their wisdom and strategic thinking. Unlike dice, cards, and other games of chance, chess is a game of skill and a stronger opponent generally beats a weaker opponent. I could be totally wrong here, but it seems to m... | Read More

GM Ginger_GM | GM Simon Williams explores the much misunderstood role of diagonals in the attack with two brilliancies. Can you find the key diagonals and how two of the greatest players ever, David Bronstein and Akiba Rubinstein, exploited them? | Read More

PeterDoggers | Today the Tal Memorial took off with what happened to be a Shakhriyar Mamedyarov one-man show. Azerbaijan's number one grandmaster won the blitz opener with 7.5/9, two points more than runner-up Levon Aronian. Mamedyarov setting up the pieces again after one of today's blitz games. The Tal Memorial is a super tournament remembering the eighth world champion Mikhail Tal (1936-1992). The... | Read More

NM linlaoda | This post will be a little different. We'll be learning from a game of a bullet super-grandmaster a couple of their key traits that we can implement in our own games:Principal #1: take free material if isn't a blunder (it tends to be easier to play with the pawn up)Principal #2: when you have a choice, choose to defend your forces and thus reduce potential threats. This is a very important one tha... | Read More