So i'm reading a magazine, and i found this game. It's a very nice one, showing how to punish your opponent if he carelessly sets up an annoying pin. White breaks it in nice fashion, giving up his queen, to force a king hint all the way down to hi...
Here is a well played game by Michael Adams.
Here is a well played game by Michael Adams, but lost.
This game is a nice strategic masterpiece. White slowly maneuvers his pieces until the board explodes into a tactical battle. Sacrifices abound as the black king is slowly constricted and suppressed.
Here is a game I recently played that I was very proud of. This game relates to a theme of chess I've been trying to really work on which is creating weaknesses. In the past I found myself never exploiting the little weaknesses of the position bec...
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 ...
This is a very nice showcase from Topalov. He unleashes an exhange sacrifice early on to obtain a pawn mass in the center. From then on, he gives up whatever he can to advance this mass. In the end, a pawn must inevitably queen.
Here is an excellent game played by Michael Adams.
Here is an excellent game by Michael Adams.
Here is a excellent game by Michael Adams.
Here is a game with Michael Adams playing against the current World Chess Champion.
The weakness of black's back rank is a major theme in this game. White leaves his queen en prise and then blows the black position open with a lethal rook+bishop combo. In the end he only needs two pieces to mate.
The Match of the Century Fischer vs Spassky 1972 The name Bobby Fischer, at least to Americans, is synonymous with chess. A prodigy in the 50s, a world class player in the 60s, the 70s saw Fischer at his pinnacle. He earned the right to challen...
Here is an excellent game played by Michael Adams but lost.
An excellent win for Michael Adams!
Here is a game from Corustoernooi 2007, Ruslan Ponomariov - Veselin Topalov Topalov was at his best this day, beating Ponomariov in a wild and very imbalanced game. Actually Pono was better after the opening, but hesitant play (21.Nb1?!) got him ...
It is stalemate in 10 moves. Can you find it? Here is the game:
The Polish Immortal was a famous game between Glinksberg and Miguel Najdorf played in Warsaw. Some sources give its date as 1930 or 1935, and give the name of the player of the white pieces as "Glucksberg". Garry Kasparov gives the date of the gam...
The Peruvian Immortal is the name given to a spectacular game played by the Peruvian master (later grandmaster) Esteban Canal against an unknown amateur in a simultaneous exhibition he gave at Budapest in 1934. In just 14 moves, Canal sacrificed b...
Johann Lowenthal was a professional English chess master in the 19th century. Lowenthal was originally born in Budapest, the son of a Jewish merchant. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native city. In 1846, he won a match against Carl Hamppe...
Here is a game from the 12th Bavarian Open, GM Yemelin - IM Kaplan with full annotations and commentary: This game was a nice display of the benefits of forcing weaknesses near the opponent's King and the results it can bri...
In 1999 microsoft sponsored a game b/w GM gary kasparov and the world via the internet.This fantastic lasted for 124 days.On the sixty-second move 51.01% voted to throw in the towel.
