"In the Middle Ages, the Roman Church condemned chess, as it did many other forms of amusement, as a tool of the devil. In later times, however, the church not only has softened its position, but has come around to warmly encouraging the...
Andor Lilienthal (1911-) is a Hungarian Grandmaster born in Moscow; he moved to Hungary at the age of two. He played against many World Champions during his ilustrious chess career. Among the great players he defeated are: Lasker, Alekhine, E...
Viacheslav Ragozin (1908-1962), Soviet Grandmaster, chess writer and editor, played Black in this game against Hungarian Grandmaster Andre Lilienthal (1911-). White was winning by move 22, but when he missed the killer 23.Bf4, Black ...
This game popularly came to be known as the ukraine immortal, because black blindly accepts white's crazy sacrifices and the king falls into a wonderful trap...
This game was played at Nottingham in 1936 between World Champion Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) and future World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995). Alekhine played White, he had Botvinnik a Knight down and it seemed like he had&nbs...
Here is what Al Horowitz had to say about this great Polish Grandmaster from the 20th century: "Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961), what a player! Only by a strange quirk of fate did he fail to reach the World's Championship, having defeated ea...
This is not a puzzle, is a complete game played in 1942 in New York between Herman Helms and Oscar Tenner. White offers his Queen as a juicy bait to get the Black King into a lethal mating net.
Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (1908-1983) was one of Czechoslovakia's greatest chess players ever. He established himself as a legend during the Olympiads of the 1930s. His tournament record was impressive, with his tactical skill ...
This is an example of a check mate in the opening which is quite strange....i was playing against a club player and i was with the white pieces...
Dear ladies and gents, The first formal test of the Dragon system was in Germany, 1887 Tarrasch lost a whole piece there!
The following Giuoco Piano is from the book "How to Win in the Chess Openings" by I A Horowitz. It is an awesome game and I wanted to post it. Unfortunately, the names of the players are unknown, so is the time it was...
Israel Albert Horowitz (1907-1973), better known as I A Horowitz, was a Jewish-American International Master, a Grandmaster by today's standards, but he never got the title. Horowitz won the US Open Championship in 1936, 1938 and 1943. He is the m...
The following game ilustrates what poor development can do to a chess player. I played Black against Michael189, a very good player and a good friend of mine. White sacrificed a Knight early in the game for no apparent reason, then he ha...
Here is a game I played a while back, it is one of my favorites because I sacrificed three pieces and won nicely. First, I sacrificed a Bishop to get my Rook into play, then followed a Knight, lastly, I sacrificed my Rook. My eager and younge...
In 1920, Richard Reti (1889-1929), one of the top players in the world at the time, played a match against future World Champion Max Euwe (1901-1981). The result was 5-3 with four draws in Reti's favor. The game below is fr...
Their shortest game and a dazzling tactical battle, annotated. Morphy said to me, "I have a positive chess fever coming over me. Give me the board and the pieces and I'll show you some of Anderssen's games." And with ast...
This game was played in 1844 between Hoffman and Petroff, both Grandmasters of the era. Black's idea of surrendering his Queen to bind the enemy King with the lesser pieces is a true triumph of mind over matter.
At the Candidates Tournament in Curacao in 1962, which resulted in a victory for Tigran Petrosian, there was no rivalry as intense as the competition between America's pretty boy Bobby Fischer and the Hungarian Grandmaster ...
What is a brilliancy? a spectacular Queen sacrifice? a game full of masterly maneuvers? That's the question. Many Brilliancy Awards of the past are known to be full of arguments, errors and disagreements. The "standards" for a b...
Jude Acers (April 1944-) is a U.S. senior Chess Master who has set several simultaneous exhibition world records. Acers broke Capablanca's record in 1966 at the Louisiana State Fair, when he played 114 opponents simultaneously and wo...
Miroslav Filip (October 1928-) from Prague, Czech Republic, was Czechoslovak Champion in 1950, 1952 and 1954. He earned the International Master title in 1953 and became Grandmaster in 1955. He played the following game in 1961 against Klaus Vikto...
Frank Marshall was one of the top ten players in the world during the early 20th century. Amos Burn was one of the top ten players in the world at the end of the 19th century. Both players met at a grandmaster tournament in Ostend, Bel...
During the previous 2 games in which Spassky had opened with 1.e4 (Games 7 and 11), Fischer had answered with 1...c5., playing his beloved Sicilian Najdorf. Spassky and his team had undoubtedly prepared for this. Fischer w...
Herman Helms (January 1870-January 1963) was recognized by the US Chess Federation as the "Dean of American Chess" in 1943. His personal and over-the-board experiences began with World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz. He encountered, at times ...
