Here is a game from the 2008 Linares tournament, GM Leko - GM Ivanchuk with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw that black played the Caro-Kann to combat 1. e4 where black establishes a pawn on d5 early in the...
The Plachutta is a device found in chess problems. A piece sacrifices itself on a square where it could be captured by one of two similarly-moving pieces for example, a bishop and a queen moving along a diagonal, or two rooks moving along a differ...
Please excuse my poor annotations. Alot of the moves im not too sure whats going on, and have kind of stated the obvious. But anyway, the game is still great.
The great chess genius Alexander Alekhine played many great games during his life, but some of them stand out. The games of his that illustrate the theme "mind over matter" are especially pretty. Here are two examples. &nb...
George Henry Mackenzie does it again in this King's Gambit accepted miniature. Straight from the opening, Black goes for the knockout. Black's Queen infiltrates White territory, prevents White from castling and then comes 11...
The "Game of the Century" was played between chessmaster Donald Byrne and 13-year old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York on October 17, 1956 and was nicknamed by Hans Kmoch ni "Chess Review". The tex...
Louis Paulsen (1833-1891) was a German chess Master. He was among the top five players in the world around the 1860's and 1870's. Paulsen put forward the idea that any brilliant attack would have failed against correct defense. His id...
This game is one of those unknown masterpieces of chess. Black leaps at a "forced" mate early in the game, and is struck by chess lightning.
Al Horowitz (photo) and Herbert Seidman played this game in New York during the US Championship of 1942. Neither of these great players won the event (Samuel Reshevsky did), but they produced a masterpiece to be talked about&nb...
Here is a game from the 2008 Morelia/Linares tournament, GM Shirov - GM Anand with full annotations and commentary: This game is a perfect example of the power behind the thematic exchange sacrifice on c3 in the Sicilian. Bla...
Adolf Anderssen (1818-1879) well known by his impressive victory in the world's first international chess tournament held in London in 1851. The event is often considered to be a world chess championship, although the term does ...
Checkmate is the heart of a chess game. There are many known mating patterns - how certain pieces coordinate to deliver mate and chess players should know these by heart. Knowing how to deliver mate opens a world of possib...
Here is a game from the Women's section of the 2008 Moscow Open, WFM Kiseljova - WGM Pogonina with full annotations and commentary: This game is a good illustration of the battle between material and piece activity. Early ...
George Henry Mackenzie (1837-1891) was a Scottish-American chess Master. He entered the British Army in 1856 at the age of 19 and retired as Captain in 1861. He moved to the United States in 1863, during the American Civil War. From 1865 through ...
For many years, the Russian chess players have been dominating the field. Unlike the US, the Russian government, acting as sponsors, promoted a vast program of chess activitiy, encouraged and professionalized its top flight talent. Because no othe...
In this game, the power of the pawn move h4 is shown. After a dubious opening line by his opponent, Polugaevsky sacrifices his rook. It seems as though he does not have enough compensation, but then a few subtle moves brick in his opponent's with ...
This is an interesting game played in Moscow between Ukranian Grandmaster Ossip Bernstein (1882-1962) and Cuban chess legend Jose Raoul Capablanca (1888-1942). The heat of the fight suddenly concentrates around Black's far advanced c-Pawn...
this is a game that shows the strenght of the bishops in the diagonals.
Here is a game from the 2008 Moscow Open, GM Zviagintsev - FM Slugin with full annotations and commentary: This game clearly illustrates the importance of development. As we saw in the game white sacrificed a pawn early and bl...
This game is one of the greatest attacking gems. White sacrifices both his rooks, initiates a huge light-square assault, and forces the win of Black's queen.
The Dragon Variation calls for sharp play on Black's part. But the same obligation falls on White as well. In the following game White stumbles at move 10. His mistake seems a very small one, but he soon finds that he has lost the initiative. ...
Here is a game from the 2008 Corus Group C event, GM Negi - GM Grivas with full annotations and commentary: This is a good example of the dangers of taking a "poisoned" pawn or piece. In this game black decided to pl...
