This is the first time I tried to write an article on Chess.com, so if you have any suggestions, please tell me. Back in the 19th and early 20th century pawns were thrown away in the openings. The only thing that mattered was a chance to attack, ...
550 AD - Northwestern India - Persian poem in 600 AD describes chess coming to Persia (Iran) from India First called: "Chaturanga" - a Sanskrit word translated as "4 limbed" or "4 parts" The four divisions of an army: five foot soldiers, three ...
Have you ever played chess? Did you know that chess is the oldest skill game in the world? But chess is more than just a game of skill. It can tell you much about the way people lived in medieval times. If you look at the way a chess board is set...
This is an article that I read in a local newspaper here.Found it interesting,so thought of sharing it with everyone else. Here's some trivia about VishyAnand-The world chess champion. Vishwanathan Anand was born on 11 December 1969 in Chennai,Tam...
All ecuadorian chess players are now invited to join the group "Ecuador" here in Chess.com There we can talk in Spanish and create or participate in the Forums. See you there,Fernando.
Dawid Przepiorka (1880-1940) was the winner of the 1st Polish Chess Championship in 1926, which was held in Warsaw. In 1939, Poland was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union. In 1940, Przepiorka was arrested by the Germans while he was in a che...
When White offers the Danish Gambit, how many pawns should Black accept? It is possible to accept or decline the pawns offered. Each time the Gambit is offered Black has to decide how many bites of the Danish should be taken. For some the appetite...
The London International Chess Congress of 1922 provided us with many memorable games. Jose Raul Capablanca was the reigning world champion at the time and headlined an impressive cast of participants. His first round game was against ...
Albéric O'Kelly de Galway ( 1911-1980), was a Belgian Grandmaster in 1956 and an International Correspondence Grandmaster in 1962, most famous for being the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1959 and 1...
Round 3Van Wely 1/2 WellsSmeets 1-0 SokolovWerle 1/2 SpeelmanL'Ami 1/2 AdamsTimman 1/2 CherniaevWade 0-1 ShortRound 4Wells vs. ShortCherniaev vs. WadeAdams vs. TimmanSpeelman vs. L'AmiSokolov vs. WerleVan Wely vs. Smeets Round three had exciting...
The word tabiya used to refer to the initial position, however, over the years it has come to describe critical points during play at which players decide the future course of the game. Kasparov became the youngest ever world champion at th...
In the following game the white pieces were commanded by Josif Dorfman. He was born in Ukraine in 1952 and tied for first in the Soviet Championship with Boris Gulko in 1977. They came ahead of the likes of Petrosian, Tal, and Polugaevsky. A playo...
I believe these are most of the openings and gambits and traps there is.... Anderssen's Opening: 1. a3 Anderssen's Opening, Polish Gambit: 1. a3 a5 2. b4 Anderssen's Opening, Creepy Crawly Formation: 1. a3 e5 2. h3 d5 Anderssen&...
This text is translated from Dutch to English. Correct me on my mistakes if u see some please, thanks. The openings that i am going to give a look at are all played regularly at all levels. Its important you can recognize them a...
The year was 1968. I heard the book would be available in America. The place to obtain it was at 80 East 11th Street in New York City. The United States Chess Federation had been at home there for a few years. In the same building, on another floo...
Reuben Fine was born in New York City on October 11, 1914. He learned to play chess from his uncle in 1923 at the age of 8. He began tournament level chess at the Marshall Chess Club. He won the 15th Marshall Chess Club Ch...
The Flea House designated the Chess and Checker Club of New York, which was located on 42nd Street near Times Square. It was a place where players could come and play chess, checkers, Russian checkers, Spanish checkers, dominoes, go, backgam...
Arturo Pomar-Salamanca was born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on September 1, 1931. He was a child prodigy, learning the game at age 4, and pupil of Alexander Alekhine during World War II (Franco’s regime in Spain paid Alekhine to...
Why I can't move f pawn in the opening, coach? There are opening where you can move f pawn: Bird, Dutch. But there are more examples of don't touch this. You surely know some games in King's Gambit and the famous mate in two. &n...
First of all, this article is intended for novice players who may have heard of the ruy lopez opnening but haven't studied it and understand it. People who have studied it should not bother reading it. This is an introduction to the Span...
Who was Bobby Fischer’s father? Was it Dr. Paul Nemenyi or Hans-Gerhardt Fischer? Robert James Fischer’s surname could just as easily have been Nemenyi or Wender. Paul Felix Nemenyi (ne-MEN-yi) was born on June 5, 1895 in...
Hi everybody, being a member of the All Nations Chess League (located on www.playchess.com), I used our team forum to post a few brief overviews of the most common chess openings last year. My intention was not to give a fully detailed rev...
Chess and computers was a marriage waiting to happen, and when it did, so we had the reality of computer chess. The following; derrived from books and other sources of info, covers some of the earliest roots of computer chess; technol...
This is one of the simplest of all openings and is therefore very suitable for beginners. Its main idea is violent attack on the center, using rapid and aggresive development principals . Initial moves are 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4. This openin...
