The 1896 cable match between the United States and Great Britain took place on Friday, March 13th and Saturday, March 14th. The final rosters for each team were to be decided in the last few days leading up to the actual match. Brookly...
This was probably one of my best comebacks, but....i got disconnected. Nevertheless, it was a good game.
I made a tournament called, 1st Bangladeshi Knockout. I was expecting for only Bangladeshis to join it, but no one from Bangladesh joined and peoples from other countries joined.It was really unexpected.Don't you think? And please give me some...
Anderssen's Mate This checkmate occurs from a corner square with a Rook or a Queen, defended and protected by a pawn or a Bishop in the long diagonal which includes the corner square. The opposing King is checkmated at the s...
Rook, knight and pawn Mate Usually seen in endgames, this mate "is extremely useful to know." The combination of a Rook, Knight, and a pawn often proves to be a very potent fighting unit against an opposing King in an endga...
Anastasia's Mate Part 2: Since the previous article about the Anastasia's Mate became to long, i am going to post the game (analysed) here. Enjoi ... And a little puzzl...
Pillsbury's Mate Pillsbury's Mate.Pillsbury's Mate is a variation of Morphy's Mate*1, but the Rook delivers checkmate while the Bishop prevents the opposing King from fleeing to the corner square. Below is an ex...
Réti's Mate (My favourite) This checkmate came from Réti-Tartakower, Vienna 1910, and involves White dropping an early checkmate on Black's uncastled King at c7 by White's Queen Bishop at d7 defended ...
Epaulette Mate Epaulette Mate. This mate occurs when the opposing King is sandwiched in between two pieces on the back rank with the Queen delivering mate from the opposing player's third rank...
This is the first part of a couple of articles where i am gonna talk about mating patterns, each article will contain one mating pattern. The mating pattern now?Gueridon's Mate! Gueridon's Mate This mating pattern and ...
The first United States Chess Federation (USCF) National Rating List was published in Chess Life magazine on November 20, 1950. The first list had nine classifications and rated 2,306 players. A Grandmaster was anyone with a rat...
Here's a game which I won recently at the Durham Chess Congress. I scored 3/5 in my category: not too bad for my first tournament, but I lost at least one game which I should have won. I needed to win both my games on the last day to get the &...
Chess is a game of endless proportion. We love this ancient game, because it goes on, and on, and it never bores us. The possibilities on the chess board are positively endless. Why, after just four moves into the game, the combination of po...
When you play chess do you ever think about how this ancient and great game so mirrors one's life? You being with an opening, that would be your birth of course, and every move you make is a decision in that life of yours. Sometimes you have ...
Chess is a frustrating game. You think that you’re starting to get the hang of it until you come up against a new opponent. They play an opening you’ve never seen before. You start sweating. You hadn’t prepared for this! You lo...
Bobby Fischer Goes to War is a comprehensive coverage of the controversial 1972 World Championship chess match held in Reykjavik, Iceland between World Champion Boris Spassky and the paranoid and obsessive challenger Bobby Fischer. Written by Davi...
THE WEIRDEST DEFENCE EVER!!!!
When an author, under the Acknowledgment section writes, "For a book like Treasure Chess it is not easy to cite where all my references and impressions came from, so I'm not even going to try," I became intuitively doubtful that ...
This is from Nun's computer test sets. Set up the position below and see how long it takes for your computer to solve it. The humans seem to be able to smell a stinker instantly even if we can't see it to the very end. If your computer can...
ok my true story is iam russian i moved to us. i started chess at home then i became better interd a club and became realy good well my freinds say so but iam not the judge. i hope lot of...
Chess was first introduced to me by my father,when I was finally old enough to grasp the concept. Since then I have never lived anywhere without a board nearby. Always searching for a new player, or a game with an old friend. It has always surpris...
Less articles from Steve Colding by NM Steve Colding Dear Readers, I have really enjoyed writting these daily articles for you at chess.com. It has been a great joy to me and I will continue to write articles from time to...
If you really thing about it chess isn't just a game. It's some peoples life. I'm not saying to act like if you lose a chess game it's the end of the world but what I mean is that Chess has a flow to it like music cascading across ...
Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a cold war hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his Amercian citizenship, has died. He was 64. Fisher died in a Reykjavik hospital on Thursday of ...
