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...
In (Game 6) Robert Fischer lead off the Game with 1. c4 - and went into the Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense. Exchange Variation. BUT 41. Qf4 -!!!, would be another brilliant Game-Winning Move for Fischer! In this position Bor...
Here is a game from the 2008 Vlissingen Tournament, FM Van Eijk - GM Landa with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw white take on a very unconventional style of play especially early in the game with h2-h4-h5, g2...
In (Game 5) of the World Championship, Robert Fischer made an INTERESTING/INCREDIBLE Game-Winning Move, 27. - Bxa4!!! With this move, Boris Spassky either gets Checkmated or loses Material, but he chooses to Resign there. This ...
Please look at this amazing lady dance inserted in following diagram. I am sure that you never saw such a dancing queen before ! Otherwise let me know! Please look and enjoy! ( Do not miss the annotations in the first and also the explanations...
In (Game 4) of the series between Robert Fischer and Boris Spassky, it ends up as a Draw... The Sicilian Defense: Sozin Attack. Leonhardt Variation was used, and both Fischer (White) and Spassky (Black) fought hard to no avail. BUT even ...
The French Defense is really an interesting opening. Some players swear by it as black and some players swear they can refute it as white. The game below is a nice example of the latter. I was privileged to play a rather strong opponent in the f...
Here I was, just 17 years old, less than 2 years into my short chess career, and I found myself facing off against a master in the 3rd round of the NorCal Scholastic K-12 Chess Championships. To say the least, I was nervous, terrified, excited, an...
This game illustrates the beauty of pawnstorms, and old chess games. Played in 1834 between the two best players in the world at the time, this was a game which shows that position is better than mere material. La Bourdonnais was a noisy char...
After Robert Fischer failed to appear in (Game 2) over a disagreement about the presence of cameras in the playing hall, Boris Spassky was awarded a forfeit win leaving the score: Robert Fischer (0) and Boris Spassky ...
This is Game 1 of the 1972 World Chess Championship, Robert Fischer (Black)-Boris Spassky (White). In this game they played the Nimzo-Indian Defense which usually ends in a Draw but near the Endgame Robert Fischer played 29. - Bxh2&...
Bronstein goes into a sharp and risky line of the Sicilian, somewhat provocative against Kholmov, who proceeds to try a daring pawn sacrifice. After a slip-up by his opponent, he then blows him away with a stream of tactics. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS FRO...
Here is a game from the 2008 Canadian Open Chess Championship, NM Yap - WGM Karavade with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw white play a very aggressive and enterprising game starting with an early g2-g4 an...
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This extremely brilliant game shows Kotov in his element as he sacrifices his queen and proceeds on a king-hunt lasting nearly 20 moves. He demonstrates why it is never good to let your guard down. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS FROM THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF THE WO...
So this famous game Tarrasch - Lasker was played almost exactly for 100 years ( august 1908 ) in my living town Duesseldorf (germany). It is the second game of the title match for worldchampionshp. Tarrasch, a very dogmatic chess player, had ch...
Paul Morphy, the "Pride and Sorrow" of chess, gives us another outstanding performance in this game played in 1858. Al Horowitz considers this game in his "Golden Treasury of Chess" as "The most brilliant of Morphy&qu...
We all face lost positions, with seemingly no chance of saving the game. Therefore, why not counterattack? You have, of course, nothing to lose...
In the following Ruy Lopez, Sidney Norman Bernstein of New York (1911-1992), author of "Combat: My 50 Years at the Chessboard" gives us a tasty demonstration of his amazing chess abilities. After move 16, he manages to separate...
Most everybody knows about the 4 move checkmate. But, many people don't. I have been playing chess for many years, and did not know it untill one month ago. Someone was tryng to pull it up on me...
Mikhail Tal is one of the best attacking players of all time. One of his best ever games was the one in which he played Black against Bukhuti Gurgenidze and won with a wonderful sacrifice.
