This is one of Timman's best games. Facing off against the world champion Kasparov, he goes on a daring kingside attack. It only takes a minor slip-up for him to start a forcing combination to win the enemy queen. The picture is just to supposed ...
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...
The game I will show you today was played in the first round; and I was playing against the top seed of the tournament, the highly creative Armenian super grandmaster Tigran L Petrosian. I am presenting this game because it's important in ch...
This year's U.S. Chess Championship opens today at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis and continues until the 17th May. 24 qualified players (list and criteria here) will compete throughout 9-rounds swiss tournament for a $135,400...
They called him one of the best closers of all time in St. Louis Cardinals history. But today, his opening game was hard enough – on the chess board. Over his major league baseball career as a hard-throwing reliever, Todd Worrell has pitched ove...
The top 24 chess players in the country begin competing this hour in the 2009 U.S. Championship. Also known as "The Super Bowl of Chess" (it's the same as the gridiron version, but without the cheerleaders, testosterone, or multimillion dollar com...
This game was a series of forceful sacrifices build up to final climax. This game, which Morphy played blindfold, is a illustration of how to draw the enemy king into the open and then annihilate it.
You know how there are always some games that you win in a really sad way? Well, here are some of my saddest wins.
In May 1851, London staged the Great Exhibition to showcase British technology. There were already railroads everywhere and the modern ships had reduced the voyage to the Americas from one month to twelve days. London’s thriving chess communit...
Analysing our own games is very essential and perhaps one of the most important things to do in our chess preparations. There are certain ways to analyse our own games to get the maximum benefit out of it. Here is some advice: (1) write down as m...
Below is a 'classic' game of Karpov that I never truly understood. It is an amazing game, or rather, it had a very amazing move, though not in any positive sense of the word. I'll let you see for yourself. ...
I ran across this well-known game while looking into the Modern Defense. Judit Polgar, then 19, defeated Alexei Shirov, then 23, at the 1995 Donner Memorial in Amsterdam. Shirov tried the Modern Defense, and Polgar responded with the Monkey's Bum ...
I've always been rather poor at rapidplay, especially bullet and blitz chess. Nevertheless, here's one example of an exception to the rule - at a rapidplay tournament (30 mins each) quite a few years ago now: ...
Ah, this was a fascinating game of how my old chess coach and I versed each other in chess. And for the first time I won. This is my game and watched how 1 sacrifice changed the whole outcome of the game.
There is a typo at the end the move is Ra1# This is a game I played so you can see it and comment on it. If you have anything to say, comment away
In this game, W Foldeak faced off against F Nagy in Budapest, 1942. Here, we see White's marvelous Knights dance around the board into Black's defences! After the 8th move, it took just 5 brilliant moves for White to force Black to resign. "Gallop...
In 1834, between the months of June and October, the Westminster Club of London celebrated a series of matches between the best chess players of England and France, or in fact, the best chess players of the world, since in those times Paris an...
For those of you folllowing David Pruess's blog here on chess.com, you'll know that 4 of us from the Bay Area went to play in Cappelle la Grande, France. Before the tournament, we spent a few days in Paris, where one of Jesse's friends (Jason Ston...
I recently stumbled across Jan Van Reek's chess site, which includes a History of Correspondence Chess page and some annotated databases. One finds there a PGN collection of great historical CC games -- including the game given below, which is the...
Note from dpruess: Saturday is the one day that chess.com does not have a weekly columnist. On this day we will endeavor to bring to you chess perspectives from a variety of excellent chess writers. This week we present an article from the 19 yea...
This is an amazing game where Geller beats the World Champion Karpov in his only defeat at the 1976 USSR Championship. I think it´s a game where the French defence doesn´t work due to the great game that Geller made. Enjoy it, as i did :
