Here is a game from the 16th Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament, GM Timman - GM Hillarp Persson with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw black play the very common and thematic exchange sacrifice in the Sicilian with ...
Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946), became the fourth World Champion after defeating the invincible Jose Raul Capablanca in 1927. The result of this match surprised almost everyone since Capablanca was the widely favorite to win (Alekhi...
A exciting game, showing an opening fight for a slight adavantage and the crowning of a passed pawn in style. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS AND TITLE BY IRVING CHERNEV.
Gyula Breyer (1893-1921) was a Hungarian Chess player. He was a leading member of the Hypermodern school of chess theory, which favored controlling the center with pieces on the wings. In 1912 Breyer won the Hungarian Championship i...
This game was found in the book 107 Great Chess Battles by the well known Grandmaster Alexander Alekhine. After a classical style response to the Sililian Defense, Dragon Variation with 6 Be2, Hasenfuss makes an intersting pawn push with 8...
Here is a game from the XIV International Tournament of Dos Hermanas, GM Shirov - GM Vallejo: In this game we saw a very sharp battle starting with 5. g4!? all the way to the end of the game. There were many critical points where the...
Here is a good miniature from the late 1800's that shows an amazing display of chess mastery. New York State Champion Julius Finn defeats his opponent in a beautiful way. In the final position, White offers his Rook in exchange for the Black K...
Here is a game from the 2008 Russian Team Championship, GM Svidler - GM Alekseev with full annotations and commentary: This game was a perfect example of the power of transpositions in chess. The game started off with white pl...
Why I can't move f pawn in the opening, coach? There are opening where you can move f pawn: Bird, Dutch. But there are more examples of don't touch this. You surely know some games in King's Gambit and the famous mate in two. &n...
Estonian Grandmaster Paul Keres (1916-1975), enriched new openings with new ideas; in this respect his experience in correspondence tournaments stood him in good stead, for they developed his ability to make deep and precise analyses. It was in th...
Here is a game from the 2008 Russian Team Championship, GM Yemelin - GM Popov with full annotations and commentary: This was quite an interesting game. First we saw white employ 4. Nc4 which is a rare choice in the Petrov de...
Victor Korchnoi (1931-) from Leningrad, learns to play chess at the tender age of seven. He competes against experienced Masters for the first time during the Leningrad Championship of 1950, he finish second. The characteristic features ...
In this old-fashioned game, White has a seemingly unstoppable attack, only to find the tables are suddenly turned!
Here is another miniature where Rudolf Charousek displays his brilliant chess ability. He loses his castling rights early, then he sacrifices two pieces. Black makes the fatal mistake of neglecting his Queen-side development. In order to ...
Here is a game from the 2008 Sydney International Open, GM Jones - IM Bitansky with full annotations and commentary: This was a very interesting game where we saw both players castling their kings to opposite sides of the boar...
An amazing game between 10-years-old Joshua Waitzkin and IM Edvard Frumkin Good job Mr.Waitzkin! Almost everyone knew Josh after this game and he become more and more popular.
Rudolf Rezso Charousek (1873-1900), was a Hungarian-Jewish chess player. He learns to play chess in his early teenage years, and his international debut comes at the Nuremberg Tournament of 1896. He doesn't win any prize but he defea...
"What about White's combinations? Has White weighed all the factors in his swift attack against the enemy King? At one time nearly all of White's pieces are in danger, and should he not take this into account and strenghten his defens...
There is no moment in chess that is more magical than the queen sacrifice, especially when it leads to checkmate.Although it might seem that opportunities for such sacrifices occur more often in games among lower-ranked players because of their sh...
In this game Magnus Carlsen played white and lost to a Fianchetto variation stratagy, while he was using the English Opening: Symetrical. Magnus played this game when he was 10, so some of the moves weren't all that smart. But he was still a c...
This game was Magnus Carlsen's first win against a NM, National Master. He played this game when he was only ten years old. He used the English Opening and his opponent used the Three Knights System General.
In this entertaining game, Rubinstein sacrifices his queen early on-for the sake for winning a pawn. But he hastens to return it in order to go into a rook ending with an advantage, which he nicely converts.
I am going to be posting a series of games by Jose Raul Capablanca. He is, in my oppinion, the greatest player ever to live. They will be played in chronological order. The following game, however, is not in chronological order, but it is my ...
