1.d4 d5 2.e4!? loool...what a strange move! 2...dxe4 that's the main line. 2...e6 that is french defense and 2...c6 is karo-kan defense.. After 2...dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 (4.Bg5 is also possible) 4...exf3 5.Nxf3 and now if 5...Bg4 White can play ...
Here are some classifications of chess openings.Open games are usually double king pawn games (1.e4 e5).The most common response is 2.Nf3 (King's Knight Opening). However, White can play:2.a3 - Mengarini's Attack2.Bb5 - Portuguese Opening 2.c3 - ...
In 1857, in an Opera House in Europe, the American chess master Paul Morphy and two strong amateurs, the German noble Duke Karl of Brunswick and the French aristocrat Count Isouard, who consulted, playing together as partners against Morphy(Googl...
Poster of the long awaited match There was great interest in the staging of this match. Belgrade put up the highest bid of 152,000 dollars. Buenos Aires followed with 150,000 dollars, and Reykjavik offered 125,000 dollars. After consider...
Free Chess Openings Videos, Click Here: Chess Openings Category – Flank Opening Opening Move Sequence – Can be reached through many move sequences ECO Codes – Not relevant King's Indian Attack, o...
Young Masters Age is against Bobby Fischer as he seeks again to be the world champion. Chess is more than ever a young man's game. IN THE eyes of Bobby Fischer, the reigning world chess champion, Gary...
The Fischer King In the surreal setting of war-torn Yugoslavia, reclusive chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer emerged to meet Boris Spassky. At about 3:30 PM on Sept. 2, Bobby Fischer shook hands wi...
Free Chess Openings Videos Here: Chess Openings History shows us that chess players first started analyzing openings in the 1400s, and possibly earlier. A lot of openings were named after countries or people, and most openings have a term attach...
he Peacock vs. the Wren Not since the youthful pianist Victor Borge, with the whole Danish Royal Symphony sawing away seriously behind him, looked up at the audience in the middle of a long troll--and winked--had a spo...
There was great interest in the staging of this match. Belgrade put up the highest bid of 152,000 dollars. Buenos Aires followed with 150,000 dollars, and Reykjavik offered 125,000 dollars. After considerable negotiation, the President of ...
Fischer and Spassky Ready to Play Chess Not Far From a War Even by his own eccentric standards, the reclusive American chess genius Bobby Fischer has come up with something seriously weird in agreeing to make a comeback against his old rival Bori...
Alekhine's death – an unresolved mystery? – In 1946 Alexander Alekhine, the fourth world champion, was penniless and ailing, ostracized by the chess community. Then, on March 23, the British Chess Federat...
Schachgenie Aljechin (Chess Genius Alekhine) - Hans Müller In the summer of 1957 I participated in the Swedish ...
Marcel Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887 in Blainville, Cervon in Normandy. As early as 1902 Marcel Duchamp was painting in the garden of the family home. A pioneer of Dadaism and Surrealism, Duchamp was equally passionate about chess. In 1923 ...
The earlier article on Time/Tempo/Tempi in Chess focused on NOT WASTING TIME when you make moves. How about gaining tempo/tempi/time? Well, a way to look at it is, if you HAVE time, you can use it however you want. If you don't have time, you ...
Here is what Al Horowitz had to say about this great Polish Grandmaster from the 20th century: "Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961), what a player! Only by a strange quirk of fate did he fail to reach the World's Championship, having defeated ea...
It's rare to see four queens on the board at once and remain on the board until the game is over. But that's what happened in this French Defense game where International Master Bernard Zuckerman lost to National Master Louis Levy in...
French opening is an opening that black choose, for an answer to the white famous 1.e4. The french opening works on solid position for lack of flexibility.The opening is 1. ... e6 2. d4 (usualy) d5 (The strong point of the opening). At this ...
Chess is a game of strategy and tactics. Each player commands an army of 16 chessmen --- pawns and other pieces (the king, queen, bishops, knights, and rooks). A well-played chess game has three stages. In the opening, the players bring out their ...
Saviely Tartakower (1887-1956) was one of the top 10 players in the world in the 1920s and 1930s. He was a Jew of Austrian and Polish parentage who lived in Russia, went to school in Switzerland, moved to Vienna, became a German master, serv...
Chess was probably introduced in Russia in the 9th century AD through the Caspian-Volga trade route. At the time, there was a Volga trade route to Baghdad. In the 10th century, chess reached Russia from Byzantium and from the Vikings. Arou...
n 1607, the first ballet with a chess theme was Ballet des Eschecs, performed for Louis XIV of France. Francois-Andre Danican Philidor (1726-1795) was a famous music composer. He was exposed to chess by the musicians in the French king's co...
he first world team competition took place in Paris in 1924 to coincide with the Olympic Games. There were 54 players from 18 countries. Czechoslovakia won the Gold Medal. The Silver went to Hungary and the Bronze went to Switzerland. The individu...
Compositions are chess positions other than which arises during a chess game, usually, but not necessarily, composed for solving. The chess problem and the composed chess ending are the true art forms of chess. Orthodox compositions co...
