Nine years later after the match between Labourdonnais and Mac Donnell, the same situation occurred but this time, in Paris, with an Englishman challenging a Frenchman, and in both cases the guest triumphed. The match Saint Amant – Staunton ha...
This exciting game features a good alternative for Black to avolid the Four Knights, but Steinitz chooses the wrong defense and gets torn apart by Blackburne. Much of the action is at f7, though the center is the main battlefield.
After World War I, a group of players came to fame whose ideas were to cause a considerable revision in chess thinking. Aaron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935), Richard Reti (1889-1929), and Gyula Breyer (1894-1921) headed the school. Also Saviely Tartakowe...
Here is a very interesting game played by Emanuel Lasker and Wilhelm Steinitz in England, 1895. Here, White is quick to attack with 24. Qc3 pinning Black's e5 Pawn and preparing for a series of "interesting" attacks on Black's defence. It continue...
International Master Andrew Martin from England presents a regular series of articles to answer any questions that Chess.com readers have about the game of chess. If you want to ask Andrew a question, then send an email to askandrew@chess.com and...
The Scotch Game has been played for many years. The first world champion, Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900), played the move 4...Qh4. The same Steinitz who developed the concepts of positional play, brought his queen out early. Today, due to specific l...
The first known blindfold event in Europe took placein 1266.Philidor demonstrated his ability to play up to three blindfold games simultaneously in 1783 with great success, with newspapers highlighting his achievement, having taught himself to vis...
Zukertort's win in the London 1883 chess tournament was his most significant success: he won his games against most of the world's leading players, scoring 22/26, and he finished 3 points ahead of Steinitz, who was second with 19/26.This tournamen...
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin was a leading Russian chess player. He served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet school of chess," which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century.He became serious about ...
Here is what you've all been waiting for - the answers and winners of the Chess.com Holiday Puzzler competition! The standard of entries was incredibly high, so a BIG thank you to all members who submitted answers. Where necessary, equal scores...
Welcome to the 2008 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler! How many of the 20 questions below can you answer? Don't answer in the comments! Send your entries to holidaypuzzler@chess.com and you could win one of these fabulous prizes! 1st Prize: 1 year of...
Chess came to Cuba with Columbus. Chess is mentioned as being played in Cuba in 16th century books. In 1838, Johan Maelzel (1772-1838) went to Cuba and introduced that country to The Turk chess automaton. As he sailed from Cuba back to Amer...
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872-1906) was one of the strongest chess players in the world and known for his blindfold chess play and mental feats of memorization. He suffered from tertiary syphilis which may have led to mental illness. Before he di...
International Master Andrew Martin from England presents a regular series of articles to answer any questions that Chess.com readers have about the game of chess. If you want to ask Andrew a question, then send an email to askandrew@chess.com and...
Johannes Hermann Zukertort (7 September 1842 – 20 June 1888) was a leading chess master of German-Polish-Jewish origin. He was the "world number two" for most of the 1870s and 1880s behind Wilhelm Steinitz, who won both of the matches they played ...
Today (October 31) is Alexander Alekhine's birthday. Here is some Alekhine trivia. Alexander Alekhine was born on Halloween, October 31, 1892. This would have been October 19 on the Old Style or Russian calendar, which was in affect until 1918....
Who is the strongest chess player in the world? We can assume that it is Viswanathan Anand after he won the 2008 world chess championship, followed by Vladimir Kramnik, his challenger. But on the official world chess federation (FIDE) rating for...
The telegraph match of 1890/91 between Chigorin and Steinitz was probably one of the more interesting ones in history. This game, the first of the two, demonstrates Chigorin's unique style of play.
The 2009 Daily Chess Calendar features an exciting position from a master games. All the greats from Steinitz, Lasker, and Capablance to Anand, Kasparov, and Tal are included. This calendar is a must have for every player and enthusiast. http://ch...
In the previous article of this series we saw a very interesting miniature climaxed by an incredible white attack. In the name of keeping the universe balanced (or at least keeping the French lovers happy!), this game will be the exact oppos...
Here is a game played a long time ago between the first official World Champion William Steinitz and the father of the Soviet School and Master of Attack, Mikhail Tchigorin. Steinitz castles in the opposite wing on move 19, making it very clear th...
Johannes Zukertort (1842-1888), was a remarkable man. Born in Riga and educated in Germany, he was the all-time Renaissance man of chess. A linguist, he spoke eleven languages fluently and had, in addition, a working knowledge of Arabic, Turk...
The great London tournament of 1862 was one of the strongest tournaments of the 19th century and only the second event recognized as a true international chess tournament. Several legendary players participated and many great games and novel...
Adolf Anderssen Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818-March 13, 1876) was a German mathematics teacher was the first player to go over a 2600 ELO rating in 1850. who won the first international tournament in London, 1851, which was a knock-out ev...
