There have only been a few "serious" games in which 4 or more Queens appeared on the board at one time. In many databases there is a game Sumpter - King, Australia 1965, with 7 Queens, which was later proven to be spurious; many chess si...
Italy and United States have their new chess prodigy. Fabiano Caruana, a young player with dual citizenships, won the First Saturday-GM group in Budapest, Hungary, with 7 points out of 9 and scored his third and last GM norm. Caruana is 14 ye...
He has been one of the greatest chess players ever, now he is a politician and a very brilliant speaker. Former chess world champion Garry Kasparov was in Milan, Italy, on June 30 and July 1: he spoke about "Absolute" and "Competiti...
The Albin Counter Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5) is quite rare in GM practice and only very few “dare” to play it. Russian GM Alexander Morozevich is one who plays it occasionally and with success. American GM Hikaru Nakamura is likely the s...
The Cochrane Gambit (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 Nxe5 d6 4 Nxf7) is, perhaps, not well known by its name, but is a playable early assault on the Black King's position, which leads to dynamic positions with chances for both sides. John Cochrane was bor...
The Grünfeld defence relies on one of the main principles of the hypermodern school: a large pawn centre could be a liability rather than an asset. The opening is named after Ernst Grünfeld, the player who first employed the defence in t...
The Queen's Indian is one of Black's most respected defenses to the queen's pawn opening. It's an established favorite among top GMs such as Kramnik, Anand, Adams, J. Polgar and (when he was at his best) Karpov. The opening is cons...
Dragon variation of the Sicilian defence has always been regarded as one of the sharpest variations of all chess openings. The name "Dragon" comes from the resemblance of Black's kingside pawn structure to the constellation "Dra...