In this game, Berkes' slightly passive opening allows Judit Polgar to establish a lead in development. Berkes decides to set a trap, which Polgar seems to fall into. However, a White's neat 14th move showed that Black was actually the one that had...
Here is a game that shows the dangers of ignoring the threats against your castled king. After some inaccurate opening moves by Smirin, instead of exchanging off pieces, as Sutovsky is preparing an attack, he plays to solve his problems by force. ...
This is one of Tal's best games. It was played when he was just 19, and it was his first appearance in the finals of the USSR Championship. It was likely the first game to bring international attention to Tal, and he later wrote that it was repr...
I posted a brilliant game that was won by Dmitry Ostapenko a while ago. You can find it here. Ostapenko won another great game that I would like to show you guys. He sacrifices a knight while the game is still in its early stages; he then shockin...
This is a very cool game; it features a brilliant shot by Shirov in the endgame. He is up two pawns, but due to the opposite colored bishops, it seems like the road to the win will be long and difficult. However, Shirov uncorks a fantastic bishop ...
This is a brilliant but little-known game by Janowski. He doesn't castle and instead begins to set up an attack. Saemisch realizes what his opponent is up to and begins to trade off pieces. However, just as it looks like Janowski's attack has fizz...
This game is brilliant and clean at the same time. Ostapenko, a little-known player, complicates things early on with a knight sacrifice on the 13th move. He then is given a chance to take his opponent's rook, but instead, Ostapenko decides to beg...
This is a game that Tal played in a simul at age 52. It is a remarkable game that is filled with a lot of complications, which arise right out of the opening. Tal immediately goes for more complications, which turn the game into a battle of tactic...
Here is another brilliant game by Morphy; you might not have seen this one before. He gives his opponent knight odds, but manages to win the piece back in the opening. Eventually, an endgame arises where Morphy has two rooks on the seventh rank. H...
This is a remarkable game by Nicolas Rossolimo (who the Rossolimo Variation is named after). He sacrifices his queen with a brilliant 18th move, and attacks his opponent's kingside for the rest of the game. Thanks to his two hard-working bishops, ...
This is one of Rashid Nezhmetdinov's most brilliant games. Here's a little information (from Wikipedia) about him: Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov (Russian: Рашид Гибятович Нежметдинов; Tatar Cyrillic: Рәшит Һибәт улы Нәҗметдинов, Latin: Räşit Hi...
This is a really interesting game. It was the fourth game of the World Chess Championship that took place earlier this year. Up until this point, the scores were even and the tension was at its highest. Anand needed a win, and he got it in style. ...
This is a brilliant miniature that I saw recently. Planinc unleashes a bold combination on his nineteenth move by leaving a rook en prise to start an attack on Vaganian's king. A neat quiet move follows two moves later, and white is forced to resi...
This is a really cool game. White develops a deep plan towards the end of the opening and on the 27th move, sacrifices the exchange to start a neat 15-move combination. A neat knight sacrifice enables a pawn to move forward, which eventually wins ...
Sorry guys, I haven't really been able to get on chess.com lately due to the large amount of homework I have to do every night for school. School also prevented me from playing in the Carlsen vs. the World match. However, I always thought the ide...
This is an interesting game. Pogonina, playing White, decides to start an early pawn storm on the 8th move instead of trying to castle. Although Dzagnidze builds up an attack by placing all of her major pieces on the c-file, Pogonina utilizes Bobb...
This is a neat little game. Vladimirov, playing White, gives up a knight midway through the opening to start an attack on his opponent's uncastled king. He seems to stumble when he allows Epishin to trade queens, but his killer 26th move settles m...
Sacrifices on empty squares are not as common as other kinds of sacrifices, but they can be just as deadly. Take this game, for example. Kalegin, playing white, decides to sacrifice a rook on the 20th move on an empty square. After it is captur...
This is a truly remarkable game. It starts off normally until Nezhmetdinov sacrifices his queen on the 12th(!) move for just two pieces. He then proceeds to build up an attack that his opponent is helpless to prevent. Eventually, Nezhmetdinov cras...
Here's a lovely game by Tartakower, in which he unleashes a long and pretty combination. His opponent snatches an unprotected pawn midway through the game and is quickly attacked. However, it looks as if he will be able to weather the storm, when ...
Here's a remarkable game that I came across recently. The players are largely unknown, and Karmov, playing black, unleashes a neat combination in the opening that leaves his queen hanging for several moves. Musaiev puts up a resourceful defense, ...
Here's another endgame masterpiece played by Capablanca. Once again, like my last article featuring one of his games, his opponent is Yates. In this game, Capablanca is able to win a pawn in the middlegame and then simplify into a rook endgame whe...
I thought that this game was very interesting. Garry Kasparov faces off against The Times (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times) in a 1998 charity consultation match. The game eventually transitions into a endgame where each side has three mino...
In case you haven't heard about it already, Andor Lilienthal passed away recently. He was a Hungarian chess master who played against ten male and female world champions. During his long career, he defeated Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botv...
