Chess.com is very pleased to present the first in a series of regular articles by renowned chess author and experienced coach, International Master Andrew Martin. Andrew will be answering any questions that members have about the game of chess. ...
Every novice soon learns a table of [DH: "average"] material value for the pieces, the most popular being 1-3-3-5-9, but with a bit more experience he learns that this table is not always reliable. There are two reasons for this: one is that an ac...
Chess does not roll ever outward towards infinity. It encroaches slightly upon the infinite multitudes, but could never seek to encompass all. The roles of the pieces and the restrictions of the board, as well as opening positions and the moveme...
Here's how I managed to draw one of my online chess games out of a pretty hard position. Took some pretty hard thinking but I got it in the end.
Here's the position I found myself in when playing on live chess. The initiative has been mainly black's for the last lot of moves and I was having a rather hard time of it defending my King. Here's how I got the initiative back again and checkmat...
Have you ever played chess? Did you know that chess is the oldest skill game in the world? But chess is more than just a game of skill. It can tell you much about the way people lived in medieval times. If you look at the way a chess board is set...
In some games that I have observed, I have seen "torture", or the continuous stupid moves that make a game that is obvious as to who the win will go to. Some will argue that the losing player can just resign, but many players (such as myself) beli...
Zsuzsanna (Susan) Polgar, former world women’s chess champion and a board member of the US Chess Federation (USCF), is being sued by the USCF for alleged unauthorized email access. She allegedly accessed email messages sent between other USCF boa...
Do you have a burning question about chess that you would like to have answered? You're in the right place! I am very pleased to announce that starting soon at Chess.com is a new weekly column by International Master Andrew Martin from Lon...
Chess: The Sixty Four Stratagems. “The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us” Thomas Huxley. ...
I have noticed that on chess.com, an otherwise tremendous way to waste one's time, that 78%* of articles on here are whinge-fests, nought but complain-athons consisting of such dazzling content as: "I hate it when players never resign" (erm, prov...
I often hear chess referred to as a sport. To me it is clearly not a sport. When I think of a sport such as soccer, basketball, swimming, etc. what is involved is competition requiring highly developed physical skills and attributes of the play...
I’ve never seen or heard so many chess references in a political campaign like this one for 2008. Here are some of the samples of what I have seen or heard so far from quotes or headlines. “McCain is playing checkers. Obama is playing chess.” ...
Iowa City Man Accused of Murdering Neighbor By Dave Franzman, Reporter By Dave Franzman Story Created: Oct 19, 2008 at 2:05 PM CDT Story Updated: Oct 20, 2008 at 9:58 AM CDT IOWA CITY - Iowa City police say a chess game argument turned ...
In this game, black resigned after white queen put his king in check, I was wondering why? There are still moves to be made, and I dont see a mate anytime soon. Also, mistakes could be made. I learned a while back that early resignations were o...
Here is games played by grandmasters and people, (games):
Compared to other sports cheating in chess are relatively few and almost negligible among professional players –cheating to win that is- until the advent of computer programs and wireless technology. Cheating to lose is however another matter. Th...
Chess boxing is a game where two people play chess and boxing. They play three minutes of each game. Who ever gets KO or checkmate loses. On to the video.
HOURRAYYY! Chess.com has reached an all time high of 300,000 Members! I Congratulate and thank all the staff, erik, and of course the members that have contributed and made this site a better place. I have only been at this site for a couple of mo...
GM Ray Keene and I will be doing a book on the upcoming Anand-Kramnik match that will appear shortly after the match. We mplan to preview much of the material here. We'll start with a bit Ray wrote on a new computer predicition project. Persona...
The 16th Computer Games Championship ended in a tie with Rybka and Hiarcs, an England Chess Computer. They beat all the other computers, but didn't play each other. Rybka drawed against Cluster Toga. Hiarcs drawed against Cluster Toga too.
A quarter of the games of th 1985 World Championship mathc between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov were over adn Karpov was leading b the score of 3.5-2.5. Kasparov does seem to have upped his game after defeats in games 4 and 5 which turned his...
The 1985 World Championship match had clearly taken a major turn in the last two games. After three games, challenger Garry Kasparov was leading 2-1 with a win and two draws but world champion Anatoly Karpov upped his game to win games 4 and 5 and...
It was all square between reigning world champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Garry Kasparov after 4 games of the 1985 World Championship with two draws and both players having one win each. With Karpov winning the most recent game, Game 4 is se...
