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 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...
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...
MATE IN 4...TRY IT OUT :) THIS IS A REAL GAME! THERE ARE 2 BLACK BISHOPS BECAUSE I PROMOTTED A PAWN TO THAT :)
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) ...
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...
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.
THIS IS AN EPIC-LY HARD PUZZLE! NO REALLY
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 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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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....
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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...
Who was Bobby Fischer’s father? Was it Dr. Paul Nemenyi or Hans-Gerhardt Fischer? Robert James Fischer’s surname could just as easily have been Nemenyi or Wender. Paul Felix Nemenyi (ne-MEN-yi) was born on June 5, 1895 in...
It had been a bad night for Fred, mostly of his own making; but having an man point a gun at him really put things over the top. He'd spent most of the past hour playing for a win in a R+B vs. R endgame (ultimate...
1.) A group of chess enthusiasts had checked into a hotel, and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as t...
