The French Defense is one of the most widely used responses in black’s chess arsenal against 1.e4. It is a known for being a robust and resilient defense that can lead either to boring, maneuvering play or to raging attack and sacrifices. As ...
The Sicilian Sveshnikov variation is a increasingly popular line in the Sicilian Defense. Evegny Sveshnikov, who the variation is named after is a Russian Grand Master who was the main driving force in the development of the variation in ...
I think that there is no one on Chess.com that can disagree that I like the Sicilian defense. From my articles I think that one is not on a Sicilian. This is because the Sicilian is what I know best. I am a Najdorf player, following the example ...
Hi in my previous articles on the Sveshnikov many raised the issue of the Rossolimo and how it has had good results against the Old Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6). Since I received your comments I have looked into the variation and it has grow...
OK. I was bored today. This is the second installment in my series of articles on the Checkhover Variation of the Sicilian. In my first article I went through 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Bxc6 Bxc6. This time I will be ...
Hi today I would like to share with you one of my favorite openings. This opening is called Ponziani’s opening. I have played this opening both tournament play as well as in casual play. In both areas I have had high success rate. The Ponzi...
If you have a friend that loves to play the two knights defense as white I have a surprise that you can spring on them the next time that you play. Yes this is an old well published trap but it never the less makes for great fun to defeat your opp...
This variation is known as the Checkhover Variation, and I will be going farther and exploring the Polgar system. The move order to reach this is exactly the same as the open Sicilian. We start as I said in the open Sicilian. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf...
Once again I will be addressing my favorite defense to 1. e4, the Sicilian Pelikan This opening is characterized by the move order 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5! ...
Hi everyone have a little bit of a suggestion for you. There are people in this world that are straight forward and totally honest. Some are the cheating scoundrels that we hear about for cutting corners. Then we have the tricksters, like me. ...
