Morphy played blindfold
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.
One minute sadness
You know how there are always some games that you win in a really sad way? Well, here are some of my saddest wins.
London 1851: The First International Chess Tournament!
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...
A Closed Game Explodes
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...
A mysterious game
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. ...
Judit, Alexei, and the Monkey's Bum
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 ...
Playing for a win
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: ...
The Great Queen
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.
A 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
The Galloping Knights!
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...
The First Battleground in Chess, Part I
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...
Hippocleides doesn't care
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...
Edinburgh vs. London, the first CC match!
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...
Garry the Great
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...
When a World Champion has no chance !!!
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 :
Bobby Fischer's Breakthrough: The Game of the Century
Robert Fischer was an excellant chess player no doubt, but do you think that he was recognized or appreaciated ever since he startied playing chess at the tender age of 6? For those of you who do, the answer is no. Bobby Fischer was but a 'promisi...
Bologan vs. Schlosser!
In this game, Viktor Bologan faced off against Philipp Schlosser in 2004. Here, White played 20. g5! and Black responded with 20...Qg6, not 20...Qxg5 because of (21. Rg3 Qh4 22. Rf4+-). White continues the attack with 21. Rh3+ Kg8 22. Qg4 gxf6 23....
J Corzo vs Capablanca
Here is a short darwed game by Capablanca.
Capablanca vs E Corzo
Here is a well played game by Capablanca! Enjoy!
Kasparov's Immortal!
1st a Rook, then a Knight, and then another Rook! Garry Kasparov sacrificed all of these pieces and still managed to get the win against Veselin Topalov in Netherlands, 1999. Immortal? Yes... The action began with 24. Rxd4? cxd4 25. Re7+ Kb6 26. Q...
A Wonderful Game at Gibraltar
The following game was given the title as the best game played at Gibraltar. Varuzhan Akobian demonstrated wonderful attacking mastery, but in the end, the game funneled out into an exciting draw. I have annotated the game.
PHILIDOR DEFENCE
THIS GAME HELPS YOU TO THINK A LOT IN YOUR FUTURE GAMES.ECO-E4 E5 {an 8 move game enjoy and i'll be hearing from you later}and note this-excersice #1 {1.e4 ..e5 2.Nf3 ..d6 3.d4 ..Nd7 4.Bc4 ..c6 5.Ng5 ..Nh6 6.Be7{what is the correct move that Blac...