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...
Staunton Preview: Mickey Adams
To get ready for next month's Staunton Memorial I present some games featuring the players in this year's event where I'll be arbiter and will post some reports. First up: Mickey Adams. Information about the event is at http://www.howa...
Who was that masked man playing the Short Variation? Evgeniy Najer
Episodes of "The Lone Ranger" would often end with someone saying, "Who was that masked man? He never told us his name." Another would answer with, "Why, he's the Lone Ranger." This would be followed by the Lone R...
How To Become a Master
Whether you are a begginer or an intermediate player or an advanced player you will find this article very helpful in improving your chess skills and eventually becoming a master.... Chessvideos.tv Just type the following into your adr...
Frank Marshall's Greatest Tournament
Cambridge Springs 1904 was an international tournament with 16 players. Eight were from Europe and eight were from America. Marshall was clear first with a score of 13-2 consisting of 11 wins, 4 draws, and no losses. A full two points back were Da...
Chess Champions 1
Adolf Anderssen Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818-March 13, 1876) was a German mathematics teacher was the first player to go over a 2600 ELO rating in 1850. who won the first international tournament in London, 1851, which was a knock-out ev...
Captain Evans
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (1850-1908) was one of the greatest and most overlooked masters of all time. He challenged Steinitz to the world championship twice, in 1889 and 1892, but lost both times. Nevertheless, he was still one of the best playe...
Michael Botwinnik - the Center strategist
Michael Botwinnik has done very much for the development of chess theory. Perhaps more than anyone else. And he was a very strong chessplayer - and world champion for a long period. It is an open secret, that he was a lover of a strong pawncenter....
Mikhail Tal - not always ingenious
A few days ago here was shown the famous game Mikhail Tal-Tolush (UdSSR-championship 1956) with the brilliant sacrifice 15.Bb5!. If you have not seen yet, please go through it and come back.- In that game we saw Tal in his elements - ...
Tigran Petrosian - the Iron Man
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1929-1984) was a Soviet Grandmaster (1952) and 9th world chess champion (1963-1969). He was Armenian champion at the age of 17. In 1964, he won the championship of the Trade Unions in Moscow. Be...
The Great Pillsbury
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872-1906) was one of the greatest American chess players who ever lived. His most famous accomplishment was winning Hastings 1895 as an outside bet. Though he tragically died early from syphilis, he could still create mast...