Many of us know how hard it is to pull up a game against a solid opponent. But today, what I would like to show you is how to actually withstand the sharp attacks and precise maneuvers of a stronger player and be exactly that kind of nuisance all ...
Earlier this year, I decided to take part in one of the strongest chess competitions in my country, the 34th International Open Bulgarian Chess Championship “Georgi Tringov Memorial.” This was a tough tournament which happened to ...
Thousands of chess players dream of learning all the subtleties of the game of chess. There are different ways to do so, but all of them are related to one and the same question: How do we study correctly on our own, so that we don’t waste our tim...
A constructive plan for white in Ruy Lopez Exchanged Ruy Lopez Exchanged has always been an interesting alternative to the bishop’s retreat to a4 for White. With Bxc6, White damages Black’s pawn structure and either trades pieces to get into a fa...
It was July 2007 and I was playing casually some chess at Playchess.com, when, unexpectedly, my game formula matched me to play a game with the handle called Raffael, which was currently the top blitz player in the honorary list. Well-known by all...
In my new article of the series “Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a Chess Coach”, I would like to present to you one of my best games in my chess career. That game was played at one of the most important tournaments in Bulgaria – The semi...
My second article for December, part of the Series “Inside the Master Mind” is going to cover a game, in which I managed to beat the second strongest Bulgarian grandmaster after GM Topalov – GM Kiril Georgiev (FIDE rating 2670). The most interesti...
In today’s article, part of the Series “Inside the Master Mind” I want to show you one of my most memorable games, which tells the story of how I beat the World Champion in classical chess for 2005 and the player with the highest FIDE rating for 2...
In today’s article, part of the “Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a Chess Coach” Series, I would like to show you one of my most interesting games in my chess career. I say interesting, since then I used my own opening system in a serious...
In today’s article, part of the „Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a Chess Coach” Series, I chose to show you my very good theoretically-based win with black. This game was played in the third round of the international chess festival for ...
In today’s article of the „Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a Chess Coach” Series I would like to show you one of my first great wins against strong chess masters with a more than 2450 ELO rating. This game was played in 2006 at the stro...
In the fifth article, part of the “Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a ChessCoach” Series I would like to present you one very good positional win of mine as played in French Defense. When a tournament player has to play a spec...
In this fourth article of the series “Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a Chess Coach”, I would like to present to you one of my best wins against chess players of high class – the so-called grandmasters. That game was played at one of the...
In this article from the “Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a Chess Coach”, I would like to show you one of my best recent games. That game was played at the prestigious open tournament in Teteven (Bulgaria) this year and my op...
In my second article, part of the series “Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a Chess Coach”, I would like to show you one of my best recent games. This game has been played in the 7th round of one of the most prestigious Open to...
In my first article from the “Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a Chess Coach” Series, I choose to present one of my most beautiful chess games in my career as a tournament chess player. This game was played during the Bulgaria...
