Call to all Ecuadorians
All ecuadorian chess players are now invited to join the group "Ecuador" here in Chess.com There we can talk in Spanish and create or participate in the Forums. See you there,Fernando.
Jacques Mieses Plays Henny Youngman's Best Line, "Take My Wife, Please!"
Jacques Mieses (1865-1954) was born in Leipzig, Germany. In 1939, he fled Nazi persecution of Jews. He was accepted in Great Britain where he became a citizen. In 1950, he was the oldest player (85) awarded the grandmaster title and the first Brit...
Happy Birthday Alekhine
Today (October 31) is Alexander Alekhine's birthday. Here is some Alekhine trivia. Alexander Alekhine was born on Halloween, October 31, 1892. This would have been October 19 on the Old Style or Russian calendar, which was in affect until 1918....
Marshall Pushes 50 and Bogoljubow
Frank Marshall (1877-1944) was the chess champion of the United States from 1909 to 1936 when he gave up the title. He played a match against Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1907. Despite losing to Lasker with 8 losses and 7 draws, Ma...
Scholar's Mate
Don't you think its werid if people fall for scholar's mate. You would have to be a serious beginner to fall for. I even heard at the nationals people fall for it. Now isn't that sad. Hopefully, people will grow out of it. If you don't know what I...
His Own System
Capablanca had his own distinct way of thinking. This game is a good illustration of that. He uses principles like zugzwang and preventing counterplay to totally lock down his opponent. Some think he might have read My System and used its principl...
Philidor!
François-André Danican Philidor 1726 - 1785) was a French C\hess player and composer. He was regarded as the best single chess player of his age. Although the title of World Chess Champion was not yet in existence. Philidor's book Anal...
Magnus Carlsen's First GM Norm
In 2004, Magnus Carlsen of Norway became the second youngest player to earn the title of international grandmaster at 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days. The first norm was at the Corus GMC in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands in January 2004. The second nor...
The Magnus Effect
We've all heard of the great Magnus Carlsen and his achievements. So here's my little tribute to him: a game that will probably make its way into the tactics books within the near future.
Young Superstars: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was born October 21, 1990 in Nogent-sur-Marne, just outside Paris. He plays 1.e4 and when playing Black, the Sicilian Najdorf or Dragon against it. Maxime prefers the Grunfeld against 1.d4 and 1...c5 or 1...Nf6 against 1.c4...
The Beast from Baku
This is a nice game from the young garry kasparov. Sacrfices abound, with excellent endgame play included. One is reminded of the legendary "game of the century" and bobby fischer.
SELFISHNESS DESTROY CHESS
Some chess players are so determined to win that forgot the main value of every mental game;pleasure. They use every way to reach their destination . Some days before i was playing with a man from Austria with higher rating than mine. In the midl...
Confessions of a Chess addict
The Journey begins... &nb...
Chess.com Most Popular Among Canadians
As of today, there are 116 332 people and six intelligent monkeys in the United States who are members of chess.com. That's quite the number, isn't it? In fact, those assorted mammals alone make up 43.7% of the site's total members. Impressi...
Go To Your Local Chess Club!
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The King-Side Attack
From the 8th move onward in this game, Tarrasch maps out a plan that will decide the game. He pries open the g-file, and posts both of his rooks on it. Then he swings the queen over, which crushes the barriers. Finally von Scheve's king cannot hol...
How Much Is Too Much?
This was my response to the recent Chess.com survey question as to how many turn-table games we prefer to play at one time. My answer became an article, which I thought I would post here, as such: From my experience, there are players wh...
Invention of chess ?
Chess is the game whose ...
Sofia Polgar: A Winner on Board
The Polgar sisters consist of Susan or Zsuzsanna (April 19, 1969), Sofia or Zsofia (November 2, 1974), and Judit (July 23, 1976). Judit is still active and is the highest rated woman ever. Susan was the Women's World Champion (1996-1999). Despite ...
Understanding Tal
Mikhail Tal was a rather unique player. His wild, sacrificial style lead to some very different opinions of Tal. To some, he was the most successful patzer ever to play. To others his regular lack of objectivity was the very thing that...
Staunton Preview 2: Jan Timman
Jan Timman, "The Flying Dutchman", needs no introduction. He has been a major force in the chess world since the 1970s. He returns to the Staunton this year hoping for a major victory. Not only has Jan defeated Kasparov, he has done so from a po...
Facts About Chess
The word tabiya used to refer to the initial position, however, over the years it has come to describe critical points during play at which players decide the future course of the game. Kasparov became the youngest ever world champion at th...