Who is the Strongest Chess Player?
Who is the strongest chess player in the world? We can assume that it is Viswanathan Anand after he won the 2008 world chess championship, followed by Vladimir Kramnik, his challenger. But on the official world chess federation (FIDE) rating for...
The Beginner's Guide to Chess Chat
Chess players have a reputation of being a bit antisocial, and it's not suprising when the average chess.com chat log looks something like this: Chess_Guy 1: hey Chess_Bloke 2: hey Chess_Bloke 2: hurry up about it Chess_Guy 1: gg Chess_Blok...
Chess Puzzle
Here is a chess puzzle:
Chess.com-One Year
Well, I can't believe it. Yesterday, I celebrated my one-year anniversary on chess.com. I'm very surprised that my account is still here... My experience has helped me to realize just how far an idea can go. In a year, this once-small website (wi...
Proof games
Proof games what is a proof game? You might ask. well...a proof game is like retrograde chess but you are set up with a diagram, a short game.You will be a number of moves in which this diagram is set up in and your job is to try and see how did...
THE DANCE OF HORSES(A DIFFICULT QUIZ)
TWO WHITE AND TWO BLACK HORSES HAVE BEEN PUT IN THE CORNERS OF A CHESS BOARD WITH 9 SQUARES(3X3).(THE TWO WHITE ARE IN THE FIRST LINE AND THE TWO BLACK ARE IN THE THIRD LINE). TRY TO EXCHANGE THE POSITIONS OF THE WHITE AND THE BLACK HORSES WITH T...
great finish in BLITZ game...and a great mate in 4 the other night :)
MATE IN 4...TRY IT OUT :) THIS IS A REAL GAME! THERE ARE 2 BLACK BISHOPS BECAUSE I PROMOTTED A PAWN TO THAT :)
Why Play Chess?
The grandest tradition in chess history is not, as most would expect, making excuses or even emasculating your opponent (May Bobby Fischer rest in peace). It is vilifying the game. Raymond Chandler (No, I've never heard of him before either) ...
CHESS.com strategy
I´m not so long playing on CHESS.com. In my games I noticed that some players are slowing down when they are worse or losing. At first it didn´t make any sense to me. You are going to lose this game anyway, so why slow down? And then...
Another Mate in 3....but sweeter than lame unrealistic ones...
MATE IN 3...WHITE TO MOVE...HOPEFULLY IT WASN'T TO LAME...just doing my first post...kinda an experiment...like ''how to do it'' kinda thing.
epicly hard puzzle!
THIS IS AN EPIC-LY HARD PUZZLE! NO REALLY
Шахматы
Комеди Клаб Сергей БессмертныйВыпуск №44 Следующее, о чем хотелось бы поговорить – это о шахматах. В каждой стране свои правила и свои особенности этой игры. Итак. Эстония. В Эстонии шахматы еще не придумали. Голландия. В го...
i hate knight
i have lost a lot games bcs knight blind, as it walks no linearly is very easy u don`t capt all possibilities of its attacks, my friend, i advise: look at knights all the time, ever as possible change knights by bishops. knights are falses, ...
Misconceptions About Chess
from my new website, ChessUp.org. (www.chessup.org/) Some people have some crazy ideas in their heads about chess. Maybe even you have had some of these thoughts before. Here, I go over some of the most common misconceptions about chess...
Trash Talk
There comes times in my on-line chess challenges that I can not play like a monotonous, robot. That's when the trash talk comes out. Most of the time, it is just a friendly "You got destroyed" or "Were you playing with...
Chess fun with boring start.
I want to earn some money to pay for my chess school. I want to do it in the way of chessplayer earning this money giving myself chess lessons. I will teach how to improve your chess, starting to fight for something during tournaments o...
Top 10 Played Openings Part 1 of 2
This text is translated from Dutch to English. Correct me on my mistakes if u see some please, thanks. The openings that i am going to give a look at are all played regularly at all levels. Its important you can recognize them a...
MacHack Attack
In 1957, Alex Bernstein created the first really complete chess program at IBM. It ran on an IBM 704, one of the last vacuum tube computers. It took about 8 minutes to make a move. In 1958, Alan Newell, John Shaw, ...
Forgeries in Chess
Since Bobby Fischer's death, there have been at least three forgeries of his signature on eBay and other auction sites. One must be careful of these forgeries. Lawrence Totaro, a Las Vegas collector and researcher, wrote a very ni...
A Chessic Goodbye
My darling Petrovna, I never thought I'd be sending something like this; but after a relationship as tempestuous and complicated as ours, I thought it would be best to get my feelings down on paper, so there would be no misunderst...
The Devil's Chess Companion
Here is my own Satire of Satires, an homage to Ambrose Bierce's brilliant work, The Devil's Dictionary which contained comical (and cynical) definitions of commonplace words. Analysis- A language with no known native speakers....
Chess & Art
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The Problem
1. Arin Hellstroem was an obsessive man, to say the least. This trait had served him well in some endeavors, and in fact had made him fantastically wealthy. But the complication was that, once his mind got wrapped around a problem, it wouldn't...