Last week we saw some of the straight-forward theoretical draws and some exciting well-fought draws. Today we will take a look at some other continuations for black. To begin with, playing the sicilian itself is a huge move towards avoiding a...
Last week we had left off with the interesting Knight sacrifice on f7 in the Anti-Moscow Variation. Today we will continue our discussion and take a look at several other options that have been tried out over the last few years. This opening in pa...
Last week we studied how white can convert his minute structural advantage into something useful in the Exchange Ruy Lopez. Black's agenda here would be opposite to White's ideas as one would expect. Black has a pair of bishops, but lacks space to...
“Every once in a while a man comes to the game and changes the way the world looks at it.” This is a quote from an advertisement portraying Sachin Tendulkar as the “Man” and the game obviously being “Cricket”. If you do not know Sachin (You most l...
The king's gambit is a fascinating opening that has been in practice for more than four hundred years in chess history. If you try searching for King's gambit games in your database you will start seeing games starting from the early 16th century....
We discussed the “Hypermodern” Nimzo Indian defense a few weeks earlier. When any professional chess player talks about the Nimzo Indian defense, the Queen's Indian defense also comes into their mind automatically as these openings go hand in hand...
As we had mentioned the previous week, today we will be discussing the English opening. It has been named after the famous English Chess Master Howard Staunton. One of the trickiest parts with this opening is that it can be transposed into a...
We studied the first three encounters between Van Wely and Radjabov in last week's KID Bayonet attack article. Let us continue to discuss the remaining games of these players. In their constant battle for "The Pursuit of Satisfaction" by which we ...
This week we will study The King's Indian Defense (KID) Bayonet Attack. This sharp and dynamic opening was regularly employed by some of the World Champions like Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian. They introduced exce...
You have probably noticed that we have changed our title names in the article. You must have read plenty of articles and maybe seen some videos where people and sometimes Anand himself try to explain the secret behind his first and last names. Wel...
After our lesson in the calm and positional Ruy Lopez last week, we are ready to get back into some sharp variations again. This week we will take a look into the Sicilian Dragon. Our readers may wonder how one can explain the strategy and the bas...
This will be our first article aimed at guiding enthusiastic chess fans with useful opening ideas. Rather than focusing on deep calculation and analysis, our goal is to provide the readers with a better objective understanding of opening theory. P...
