I've noticed there are fewer resources available to those who want to learn about the Colle-Zukertort, a solid, positional chess opening system for White. Thus, I thought I’d make a quick-start guide for anyone who wants to try it out sometime. Th...
If you're like me, you don't read much opening theory. You play Chess, enjoy it, but don't know many of the nuanced trap lines that have been developed over the years. You probably, like me up until this evening, have never even heard of the Magnu...
Srikanth Narahari asked:The following variation of the Smith-Morra Gambit is one of my favorite opening lines with White: 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3 Nc6 5.Bc4 e6 6.Nf3 d6 7.O-O a6 8.Qe2 Be7 9.Rd1 b5 10.Bb3 Ra7 11.Be3 Rd7 12.Rac1 Bb7 13.Nx...
In 1988 and 1989 there was a series of six World Cup tournaments organized by the Grandmasters Association. The overall winner was Gary Kasparov, who won two of the tournaments outright and tied for first in two others. The following game between ...
The king's gambit is a fascinating opening that has been in practice for more than four hundred years in chess history. If you try searching for King's gambit games in your database you will start seeing games starting from the early 16th century....
History The Vienna Game was originally called Hamppe's Game after Carl Hamppe (1815-1876) and took its current name in the 1890's due to its ongoing popularity in Vienna, for centuries the capital of the Holy Roman and Austro-Hungarian Empires. A...
Milko Popchev of Bulgaria was born in 1964. He became an international grandmaster in 1998. Nikola Nestorovic of Serbia was born in 1989. Since this game was played, he became an international master. The tournament was at Stara Pazova in Serbia d...
The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.e4) can be a bit scary. White generally gets a strong attack in the main line. In this article, I explore a more confrontational approach. After 2...dxe4 3.Nc3, Black can play the opening blast 3...e5!? and ob...
Many players work hard to develop a useful defense to the Ruy Lopez. There are many varieties of the Spanish, many of them complicated with theory running more than 20 moves. In this article I show some ideas in the old-fashioned classical lines. ...
Welcome back to the continuation of our study of the latest developments in the Queen's Indian defense pawn sacrifice variation. Last week we saw white bulldozing his way through black's defenses with this newly found pawn sacrifice idea. Now it i...
Tony Miles was the first over the board chess grandmaster born in Britain. For more of his biography see http://www.chess.com/article/view/tony-miles---the-first-native-born-british-grandmaster. His partner in this game is Amador Rodriguez Cespede...
Most players shun the awkward-looking move 1. f4. "How rediculous!" they cry. "You are revealing your king to a deadly attack by the queen! You shall be crushed to a pulp for your insolence! You shall bow down to my superior knowledge of the openi...
One of my favorite openings is the Ruy Lopez opening. It has so much advantages to it. Let me show you... See! You have so much space and your pieces are in a well develpoped, well protected position. It takes practice to fully rea...
We discussed the “Hypermodern” Nimzo Indian defense a few weeks earlier. When any professional chess player talks about the Nimzo Indian defense, the Queen's Indian defense also comes into their mind automatically as these openings go hand in hand...
If you have a friend that loves to play the two knights defense as white I have a surprise that you can spring on them the next time that you play. Yes this is an old well published trap but it never the less makes for great fun to defeat your opp...
The Lasker Trap is a chess opening trap in the Albin Countergambit, named after Emanuel Lasker. The Albin Countergambit begins with the moves 1. d4 d52. c4 e53. dxe5 d4I would continue to explain this trap but I found a video on youtube that I t...
We will continue our discussion of the English opening this week. We had left off last week with a beautiful game from Anatoly Karpov in the World Championship match (Game 2) against Gary Kasparov in the year 1987. So today we will begin with the ...
The English looks like this: white goes for d5 but not with the usual e4,he goes 1.c4 while still keeping his central pawns ready to advance.The other advantage is that he doesn't block his c2 pawn after Nc3. This is how it looks like,white's sec...
Here are the basic ideas behind the Sicilian and some variations.Pls don't hesitate to post anything regarding this opening. Both players rush for the center,white has d5 and f5,while black has d4 and b4.Usually white has initiative early in th...
There are different opening theories. You can start anywhere you want. I just wanted to give some tips for the opening of a chess game. Read and comment if you like it and dont comment if you dont. lolz! . * Avoid Moving a Chess Piece Twic...
John Nunn was born April 25, 1955 in London. He won the British Under 14 Championship in 1967 and the London Under 18 Championship two years later. At, 15, he entered college, eventually becoming a doctor of mathematics. In 1975, Nunn was the Euro...
As we had mentioned the previous week, today we will be discussing the English opening. It has been named after the famous English Chess Master Howard Staunton. One of the trickiest parts with this opening is that it can be transposed into a...
Every player has a unique playing style and that should play a huge role in their opening choice. Notice that we use the word "should" here, since we have personally seen many players getting into trouble with wrong opening choices. The opening we...
Anyone who enjoys chess openings should eagerly await every volume from the New In Chess publication "Secrets of Opening Surprises". The 9th, for example, contains a number of gems. I'm going to look at one opening that might be of special intere...
