Here is a good miniature from the late 1800's that shows an amazing display of chess mastery. New York State Champion Julius Finn defeats his opponent in a beautiful way. In the final position, White offers his Rook in exchange for the Black K...
Estonian Grandmaster Paul Keres (1916-1975), enriched new openings with new ideas; in this respect his experience in correspondence tournaments stood him in good stead, for they developed his ability to make deep and precise analyses. It was in th...
Victor Korchnoi (1931-) from Leningrad, learns to play chess at the tender age of seven. He competes against experienced Masters for the first time during the Leningrad Championship of 1950, he finish second. The characteristic features ...
Here is another miniature where Rudolf Charousek displays his brilliant chess ability. He loses his castling rights early, then he sacrifices two pieces. Black makes the fatal mistake of neglecting his Queen-side development. In order to ...
Rudolf Rezso Charousek (1873-1900), was a Hungarian-Jewish chess player. He learns to play chess in his early teenage years, and his international debut comes at the Nuremberg Tournament of 1896. He doesn't win any prize but he defea...
"What about White's combinations? Has White weighed all the factors in his swift attack against the enemy King? At one time nearly all of White's pieces are in danger, and should he not take this into account and strenghten his defens...
Carl Schlecter (1874-1918) was a leading Austrian Chess Master at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known as the first player in sixteen years who was a serious threat to claim Emanuel Lasker's World Title (the match ended in ...
Igor Bondarevsky (1913-1979) comes into prominence in 1936 when he finish on top in a Russian tournament of first-category players, winning a number of games in splendid combinational style. After this victory he is invited to enter the 10th Russi...
Vasily Smyslov, outstanding member of the Soviet School comes to the world in 1921. He learns the game of Chess when he is still a child, his first teacher is his father, an engineer who works at the Moscow Motor Works. When it...
During the Moscow International Tournament of 1925, chess fans all over the world follow with unflagging attention the battles taking place on the boards. The name of World Champion Jose Raoul Capablanca is prominent in the newspapers. It is at th...
Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934), a Jewish and a patriotic German, was one of the strongest chess players and the most influential chess teacher of the late 19th century and early 20th century. He was a medical doctor by profession and...
George Hatfeild Gossip (1841-1907), was the winner of the Correspondence Tournament of the Chess Players Chronicle in 1873-1874. He played the following game during the Sixth American Chess Congress of 1889 in New York. Many believe the ...
George Henry Mackenzie does it again in this King's Gambit accepted miniature. Straight from the opening, Black goes for the knockout. Black's Queen infiltrates White territory, prevents White from castling and then comes 11...
Louis Paulsen (1833-1891) was a German chess Master. He was among the top five players in the world around the 1860's and 1870's. Paulsen put forward the idea that any brilliant attack would have failed against correct defense. His id...
Al Horowitz (photo) and Herbert Seidman played this game in New York during the US Championship of 1942. Neither of these great players won the event (Samuel Reshevsky did), but they produced a masterpiece to be talked about&nb...
Adolf Anderssen (1818-1879) well known by his impressive victory in the world's first international chess tournament held in London in 1851. The event is often considered to be a world chess championship, although the term does ...
George Henry Mackenzie (1837-1891) was a Scottish-American chess Master. He entered the British Army in 1856 at the age of 19 and retired as Captain in 1861. He moved to the United States in 1863, during the American Civil War. From 1865 through ...
For many years, the Russian chess players have been dominating the field. Unlike the US, the Russian government, acting as sponsors, promoted a vast program of chess activitiy, encouraged and professionalized its top flight talent. Because no othe...
This is an interesting game played in Moscow between Ukranian Grandmaster Ossip Bernstein (1882-1962) and Cuban chess legend Jose Raoul Capablanca (1888-1942). The heat of the fight suddenly concentrates around Black's far advanced c-Pawn...
The Dragon Variation calls for sharp play on Black's part. But the same obligation falls on White as well. In the following game White stumbles at move 10. His mistake seems a very small one, but he soon finds that he has lost the initiative. ...
One attractive feature of the Dragon Variation is that White cannot get by with merely indiferent play. Planless moves by White usually results in a promising middle game for Black. Take the game below for instance. White plays carelessly; his cen...
Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky (1806-1853) was a 19th century chess Master of German descent and a teacher of Mathematics. He is most remembered as the man who lost "The Immortal Game" against Adolph Anderssen in 1851. ...
This game was played in Milwaukee in 1949. White executes a brilliant attack using the opened f-file. One of the important factors that contributed for this smashing attack being successful was the powerful posted White Knight at e5. In the end Bl...
In the following position, Black can win by playing the simple 1...fxe5, remaining with a superior position and a won game. Unfortunately, he sees an "attractive" combination that wins the exchange. Without any attempt to check the sound...
