How not to play sicilian defense!
This game shows how one should not blunder in sicilian opening. I was white in this game. Hope you enjoy it!(and learn something from it). Any suggestions are most welcome!
Threats in all Directions
Paradoxically, a weakened Queen-side can incur a loss on the opposite wing, as is masterfully demonstrated in the following game, played in New York during the US Championship of 1936. American chess giant Reuben Fine (1914-1993), shows us how it&...
The Hypermodern Réti Opening
When pure ideas clash, only a fine line separates success from failure. Here are two great Americans in a battle for the ages. Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan is the hypermodernist against the modernist Al Horowitz (photo). The game takes plac...
The King-Hunt
In this game, White takes advantage of a small error by Black to employ a king-hunt on all 8 ranks. He uses his whole army, even the king, and a blaze of tactics to finish off the enemy king.
Nezhmetdinov's immortal
Truly amazing game by the master of sacrifices , and Tal's own coach . Enjoy :)
The Immortal Zwischenzug
"The jargon of chess is replete with foreign words and phrases, suggesting the universality of the game. From the German, for example, comes the togue twister "Zwischenzug," a tactic that enjoys a respectable reputation. It mea...
A Rare Appearance From the Evans Gambit
Here is a game from the current 2008 Corus Group B event, GM Short - GM L'Ami with full annotations and commentary: This game is a good example of creative opening play and imagination in chess. It shows that you do not al...
Passed Pawns- In Style
In this brilliant game, Black sacrifices a piece in the opening for some devastating passed pawns. He then sacrifices all his remaining material to force them through to the coronation.
The Great Reshevsky
Samuel Herman Reshevsky was born on 26 November, 1911 in Ozorkow, Poland. He learned to play chess at the tender age of four. By the time he was eight he was giving simultaneous exhibitions and defeating some of the prominents players of the count...
Powerful Moves
This is an interesting short game played in New York in 1956. After 12.Bb5+ is all over for Black. Three moves later, Black's choices are to lose his Queen or give up his King. He resigns. (If someone out there know who these players are...
Boris Spassky: World Champion
This game, from the World Championship match of 1969 between Tigran petrosian and Boris Spassky, both from the Soviet Union, shows Spassky conducting a brilliant Kingside attack. When Spassky plays 15.g4!, he challenges Petrosian to a battle ...
An Average Game
Being a beginner, I thought this was an excellent game. my opponent made some mistakes, and I capitalized;(i love knights) But I would also like to improve from this. readers, can I have any input?
Killer Pins
In the following brilliancy-prize English Opening between GM Ludek Pachman and A. Chirich, the opening is Hipermodern. That is, one side attempts to provoke the other into taking control of the center with the view of taking it back and leavi...
Intuition and Emotion
"The intuitive touch, the instinctive factor in winning chess, possessed in varying degrees by all good players, is self-acquired and cannot be learned in the text books. Its highest manifestation is in the flair for decisive combination, usu...
Sicilian Nature
Here is a game from the recent Rilton Cup, GM Kulaots - GM Ernst with full annotations and commentary: This game is a perfect illustration of the typical Sicilian battle. First we saw both players castling on opposite sides of...
Down Argentine Way
The old famous chess trap "Noah's Ark", has caught many naive chess players off guard and even Grandmasters. It is usually the Ruy Lopez which embraces the diabolical set up. Down Argentine way, three-time Argentine C...
Attack, Precaution and Defense
Are moves of the Rook Pawns good, bad or do they make little difference? The answer lies in the relative value to the total picture. Curiously, the moves have the atributes of attack, precaution and defense. Sometimes they keep enemy forces from d...
A Startling Move
In this game, played during the Piatigorsky Cup tournament of 1966 in Santa monica California, pictured Danish GM Bent Larsen (1935-) defeated World Champion Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984). Never before has a World Champion been so caught with his p...
Five Queens
During this game a very unlikely event occurs. Some people say that this is a composition by Alekhine, but in any case it demonstrates his boundless imagination and is delightful to play through.
The Unfortunate Queen
CCGM Peter Clarke of England and pictured GM Ludek Pachman of Czechoslovakia (1924-2003), played the following game during the Kecskemet tournament of 1964 in Hungary. They reached an early dinamic point with 11...f6. It would be enlight...
Zagreb 1965
In the following game, White violates the principles of development, he never moves his Queen side Knight and Rook, yet he still wins. Because nearly every position is specifically different, general principles may be applied only as a guide,...
Time and Space
The following Nimzo-Indian Defense, played by two young and promising European stars, Rumanian GM Florin Gheorghiu (1944-), and pictured Soviet legend Leonid Stein (1934-1973), is a complex illustration of the dangers of a material bent, particula...
Aron Nimzovich
Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935) was a Latvian-born Danish Grandmaster and a very influential chess writer. He is the author of "My System" and he is widely remembered by his "Immortal Zugzwang" famous victory over&nb...
The Two-Rook Sac
This amazing game shows White sacrificing both his rooks, then breaking through and finishing off Black's king.