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...
This amazing story started 75 years ago and isn’t solved even today. Most of its participants took their secrets to their graves. As years pass, many more victims will be claimed. But let me start from the beginning… Part One. In 1934,...
Andras Adorjan was born March 31, 1950. He was a candidate for the world championship. He has written chess books, including four with "Black is OK" in the title. His opponent in this game is Zoltan Ribli, who was born September 6, 1951 and who al...
We studied the first three encounters between Van Wely and Radjabov in last week's KID Bayonet attack article. Let us continue to discuss the remaining games of these players. In their constant battle for "The Pursuit of Satisfaction" by which we ...
This variation is known as the Checkhover Variation, and I will be going farther and exploring the Polgar system. The move order to reach this is exactly the same as the open Sicilian. We start as I said in the open Sicilian. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf...
Here is a game from the recent GM rapid match, GM Akobian - GM Shulman with full annotations and commentary: As we see with this game the Benko Gambit opening can be explosive and have a big payoff. Here Black quickly gam...
This week we will study The King's Indian Defense (KID) Bayonet Attack. This sharp and dynamic opening was regularly employed by some of the World Champions like Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian. They introduced exce...
I will always remember the day I signed up for my first chess club. Even though most of the members there were about my age (7-8 years old), they all seemed more experienced and smarter than me. So, when one of the kids asked me if I w...
We will continue our study of the IQP in the Panov-Botvinnik attack. We had given the main ideas related to the IQP pawn structure in last week's article, so we will get right to business this time with the games. The next game is a beautiful mi...
Here is a game from the 2009 Foxwoods Open, FM Mandizha - IM Robson with full annotations and commentary: In this game we see the Black player choose the very sharp anti-Moscow gambit against his much lower rated oppone...
I was playing around with possible responses for black to the two knights defence and stumbled upon this interesting response. Check it out. Is this a playable alternative??? Please leave your insights!
I have played a 30 minutes live chess game against a player who was more than 100 rating points ahead of me and I managed to beat him using the two knights defense.I have learned this defense watching this video where two FIDE masters explain it: ...
A great trap in the Scotch Game. Enjoy.
As we had mentioned last week, today we will be taking a look into the Panov-Botvinnik attack against the Caro-Kann defense. We will discuss some of the important positions and the different main variations of the opening like the previous week. W...
in this article I present a number of strategies for black involving early queenside play with the Queen against the white opening with 1.d4 and 2.Nf3. Some of these are almost completely unexplored and provide scope for original work. That's pre...
As far as I know, there isn't an article about any Anti-Pirc lines. So I'm glad to show this interesting one (it is called the delayed spike).... I used to play the Pirc a lot (as my name indicates), so I know this is a dangerous line! ...
Try moving your pawns to squares that anticipate the opposing Knights second moves in opening play. For example: If playing Black, move c6 to counter N-f3 on the King side or f6 to counter N-b3 on the Queen side. This is an extension of the Car...
Here is a game from the 2009 Reykjavik Open, FM Thorfinnsson - FM Lucaroni with full commentary and annotations: I was very interested in first seeing this game. The Dutch defense has been a bit suspect at the highest levels of...
In Chess, you start out with your prepared opening. Here is one thing to consider. When playing your opening, I reccommend that do not move a piece twice in the beginning unless you are forced to or their is a good thing in return. When white, m...
This game is about one line of the Queen's Indian Defense. White is Garry Kasparov. He was born April 13, 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan. He won the world championship in 1985 from Anatoly Karpov. He was FIDE champion until 1993 when he split with FIDE....
