The Second Most Excited 1907 Game from Karlsbad :-)
Dear ladies and gents, This is a "re-arranged digested" 1907 game of Karlsbad between Leonhardt and Tartakower, hope you would like it Love,Anthony
Fine's Ultimate Memory Test
Reuben Fine (New York City, 1914-1993) was one of the best Chess players in the world from the mid 1930's through the early 1940's. He was an International Grandmaster, Author of several Chess books and psychologist. Fine won four gol...
This Double Check is lethal
How often do we see an eleven-move checkmate between masters? no very often of course. Israel A. Horowitz once said: "The popular notion persists that Chess is an epic battle when masters get together. Far into the night the wrangle goes on,w...
Mikhail Botvinnik: World Champion
When Alexander Alekhine died in 1946, the world was left without a champion. Shortly after that sad event, Mikhail Botvinnik won the coveted title in 1948; yes, the college professor-looking player from Russia. His sound, profound and brillia...
Benko Gambit
The Benko Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5) has been around since the 1930s. In the USSR, it was called the Volga Gambit and plyed by Opocensky in the 1940s. Pal Benko started playing and analyzing it in the 1960s, and wrote his book, ...
NimzoIndian - Leningrad Variation
The Leningrad (perhaps we should call it St Petersburg) variation of the NimzoIndian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5) was a favorite of Boris Spassky (from Leningrad). It was also played by Alekhine,Reti, and Korchnoi. This game, fro...
The Giuoco Piano - No Quiet Game Here
The Giuoco Piano (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5) means "Quiet Game." Up until the 19th century, the term applied to any opening that was not a Gambit. Here is a game that is certainly not a quiet game. White sacs his Rook...
Rubinstein Takes Mieses Pieces
Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961) was one of the world's top 5 players from 1907 to 1922. Before World War I, he challenged Lasker for the world championship title, but negotiations fell through. After World War I, he challenged Capabla...
Nimzovich and the Nimzo-Larsen Attack
The move 1.b3 is known as Larsen's Opening, or sometimes called the Nimzo-Larsen Opening. That's because Aron Nimzovich played it through transpostion. He would play 1.Nf3, then 2.b3. Here is an example of one of his earl...
Kibitz with Steinitz
Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900) was world champion from 1886 to 1894. In 1862, he played in his first international tournament in London, which was the first British Chess Federation Congress. Steinitz took 6th place. The event was ...
Tartakower Power
Saviely Tartakower (1887-1956) was one of the top 10 players in the world in the 1920s and 1930s. He was a Jew of Austrian and Polish parentage who lived in Russia, went to school in Switzerland, moved to Vienna, became a German master, serv...
A Benoni with a Czech
The Benoni Defense, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5, can be a good choice for Black if he likes a crampled game for awhile. Ben-Oni is Hebrew for child of my sorrow. In this game, Black was sorry he played this opening, as White sacrificed on the kin...
A killing blinfolded combination
Blindfolded Chess is everything but an easy feat. In 1783 Philidor played three simultaneoulsy blinfolded games; it was said at the time that no one will ever break that record. Experts were proven wrong as usual, Morphy p...
History repeats itself.
Frank Marshall, a former United States Chess champion impresed the Chess world with his famous and sparkling victory over S. Lewitzky in the Breslau International Tourney in 1912. Marshall's move 23...Qg3!!! has been considered by many as the ...
A "Ten seconds per move" knockout.
Many people think that Chess games last hours and are boring; to a degree this is true. Oscar Tenner as Black executed the following "ten seconds per move" master piece against Otis Field in New York in 1923. White resigned bef...
Keres Plays the Keres Attack
The Keres Attack in the Sicilian Defense, 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g4!?, is an aggresive opening for White. There were a few correspondence games with this opening in 1900, but it was Paul Keres who first employ...
Michael Adams Plays for Mate
Michael Adams of England, born in 1971, became one of the strongest players in the world. His father taught him the game of chess at the age of 6. His father had intended to teach him checkers, but Michael wanted to play the game with ...
Chigorin and the King's Gambit Declined
Here is a nice game where Black declines the King's Gambit. Chigorin, playing the King's Gambit as White, finds a nice combination with a Rook sacrifice to force the win. Chigorin never feared the King's Gambit. This ...
A Budapest Gambit Assault
The sacrifice of a queen in the course of a game is something all chess players would like to have a taste of. The opportunity does not come easy, but when it does, we're always too eager to play it. Just imagine yourself slamming your queen d...
Dutch Treat - A Great Mate
Isaac Boleslavsky was a Soviet Grandmaster and a well-known opening theorist (you can check out the Chessopedia for more details of his life). He helped train Petrosian and was his second when Petrosian beat Botvinnik for the world champions...
Anand Beats Kasparov
In 1995, the World Chess Championship (Players Chess Association - PCA) was held in New York between Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan (Vishy) Anand. The match started on September 11 (9/11), 1995 on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center.&n...
Schlechter's Queen & Rook Sac
Carl Schlechter (1874-1918) was one of the top 7 players in the world from 1900 to his death by starvation in 1918. He learned the game when he was 16 and soon gave up his studies to devote himself to chess. In this game, Carl was 19 y...
Reshevsky Misses Mate in One!
In 1934, the New York State Chess Association sponsored the New York State Chess Championship in Syracuse, New York. It has held at the Hotel Onondage from August 13th through August 25th. In round 11, Samuel Reshevsky met Arnold Denke...
Queen Sac That Leads to Mate
Here is an interesting game in which White sacrificed his Queen to force mate. It's a familiar pattern - get the Bishop on Bishop 6 and threaten to put the Rook on Rook 8 for mate.