Siegbert Tarrasch was born March 5, 1862 and died February 17, 1934. He was one of the best players of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Around 1890, he may have been the best. World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz offered him the opportunity to p...
Nine years later after the match between Labourdonnais and Mac Donnell, the same situation occurred but this time, in Paris, with an Englishman challenging a Frenchman, and in both cases the guest triumphed. The match Saint Amant – Staunton ha...
Tony Miles (April 23, 1955-November 12, 2001) became the first over-the-board grandmaster born in the United Kingdom in 1976. His best results were in the 1970s and 1980s. He was able to win games against several former world champions. His most f...
I felt bad for all those people (non rated) in chess tournaments so this article is about them! This article shows what is your real rating suppose to be? 0-500 rating If you lost many games. Never got a troph...
In this article, as a continuation from last week, we will discuss the lives and games of Labourdonnais and Mac Donnell and their epic match, a match we consider to be the first battleground in chess. The match also constitutes a turning poi...
Samuel Reshevsky was born in Russian ruled Poland Nov. 26, 1911 and died in New York April 4, 1992. After learning to play at age four, Reshevsky was a celebrated prodigy who gave simultaneous exhibitions at the age of eight. His family came to th...
The fame of invincibility that Capablanca had in his younger years is general knowledge. After his 8-1 victory in the match against Frank J. Marshall in 1909, there followed an almost uninterrupted series of successes until his crowning as World C...
This is another one of Adolf Anderssens greatest games. It is absolutely beautiful and it has a similar look to the Immortal Game
Eugene Torre is part of Philippine history because of his skills in playing the game of CHESS.He is known as Asia's First Chess International Grand master.He competed and won in many competitions abroad.He is best known for his victory over Anatol...
Sergey Karjakin wrapped up his Corus win yesterday by winning his last round game. Here is the game from the 12th, penultimate game, which put him into the leader group tied with 5 others. His more active pieces make all the difference. (btw, i e...
What a day for Corus. The last round was filled with surprises, as 3 solo winners emerged from the pack. In the A Group, 6 came into the round tied for the lead. 4 of those leaders drew, but Sergey Karjakin emerged victorious in his game with Dom...
This game was good. It consisted of good tactical and strategical planing. The ending was a total, total blunder. I hung a peice with while giving him mate.
For my next set of articles I am going to feature the greatest chess player of all! Capablanca! I believe his games will be an excellent source of knowledge for all levels of play.
Given the ongoing articles concerning Bobby Fischer, I was reflecting on how we could tangibly remember him.A few possibilities come immediately to mind: [1] A de novo Bobby Fischer biography. It may be that the American-based fans m...
You might remember Wesley So as a Promil kid a couple of years back, but now he’s more known as one of Philippine chess’s rising stars. Last year, at the tender age of 12 years, he became the youngest-ever Pinoy to get the rank of International Ma...
As Andrew Martin has the week off, let me pay a little tribute by presenting one of his games in the Sicilian Grand Prix Attack, the variation he helped establish as a major weapon in the 1980s. Here he plays a popular line against a defensive pla...
Player Profile - Wesley So Top Philippines player and currently world's youngest Grandmaster Wesley So, the World’s Youngest Grandmaster (at 14 years 1 month) and the No. 1 ranked player in the Philippines, was born on 9 October 1993 in Cavite, ...
Source: http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Bobby_Fischer_Biography.html Robert James Fischer was born in Chicago, Illinois at the Michael Reese Hospital by the banks of Lake Michigan on March 9th, 1943. His father Gerhardth Fischer was born in Ber...
As promised in the previous article, today I bring a very curious game. Undoubtedly, two strategists face to face. And besides, two Argentines. Miguel Najdorf, although born in Poland, but developed his most important chess race in my country. S...
I bring to share with you some of my fellow countryman Miguel Najdorf, the greatest chess player in my country (as I understand it). Miguel Najdorf (born Mendel (Mieczysław) Najdorf in Grodzisk Mazowiecki near Warsaw, Poland, April 15, 1910 – died...
When mankind has wanted to make predictions, he (and she) has (have), over time, turned to the stars, the sun, crystal balls, philosophers, religious prophets and gurus, scriptural writings, and a sundry of other devices, not to ignore history, it...
In this game, Robert Fischer battles Robert Byrne in the U.S. Championship of 1963. They played the King's Indian defence: Finachetto Variation. A notable SAC in this game is 15. Nxf2, played by Fischer! To Byrne, it looked like a tasty treat. To ...
At the end of the first half of this double-round tournament, Capablanca stood a point and a half ahead of his closest rivals, Lasker and Tarrasch. When he met Lasker again in the seventh of the final ten rounds, even a draw would virtually assure...
hou yifan, the 14-year-old chinese chess prodigy, has recently been awarded the grandmaster title by FIDE. in doing so,she has broken the rscord setby judit polgar in 1991 to become the youngest female grandmaster in the history of chess.
