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 ...
Chess and computers was a marriage waiting to happen, and when it did, so we had the reality of computer chess. The following; derrived from books and other sources of info, covers some of the earliest roots of computer chess; technol...
Hi everyone! I've only been playing chess for a little over a year, but I have progressed quickly in that time. No one in my family is really good and helpful towards becoming a stronger player. Something that helped a lot wa...
I recently read an article on NYtimes.com about sex appeal in chess. It talks about a chess women's beauty contest and women chess players posing nude for men's magazines and in bikinis next to chess boards in Russia. It talks about a blog...
Yes, I got what I wanted for Christmas. My Apple iPhone is everything I thought it would be. Here is my review of the phone as related to chess and then everything else, but keep in mind, I've had it for only a few days. That being said...
Another world wide board game is go. it was invented in china 4000 years ago, and got to japan by an unknowen person. the game is played on an 18X18 board, wich have 19X19 lines on it. the game is played at the crosscuts of lines, there are 361 cr...
How many games do u play at once... i play around 5 as i like to concentrate on just a few games. however the opponent i am playing now 'sah' plays around 30!! please feel free to comment and say how many games u play at once. i ...
#1 Tactics : Solve tactical puzzles daily!#2 Endgame studies : Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner To Master #3 Strategies and planning : How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course
I am writing this really just to talk about my experiances with chess. It's pretty much a biography, but an interesting story. To start, my love of chess didn't really catch on until I was 13. I knew how to play chess before then beca...
It can happen to any player without warning! All of a sudden you look at the game as if you have never played it before, you are unable to string together any form of cohesive check-mating attack, and even the most basic strategies and tacti...
Hello, I would be very pleased, if you share some opinions when did white lost this game. I think this was my best game on chess.com and we agreed with Anorexia that he made the crucial mistake in 23. move. What do you think?
The pilot's perspective: a trip inside the cheater's mind. complete article can be found by following the link bellow http://www.geocities.com/area51/Realm/8655/ENGLISH/Part8_ENG.htm to move to ...
The Death of Chess?I In a recent article Dr. Ray Kurzweil, the inventor of optical character recognition used in flat bed scanners amongst other things, has sugges...
Listen everyone... this article, i felt, was very important to write as there are many scoundrels on this site that talk abuse to others on the chat dialogue box, as had happened to my friend whose name id not lyk to mention, just a few days ago. ...
unsterbliche Partie Anderssen - Kieseritzky London 1851 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Lc4 Dh4+ 4. Kf1 b5 5. Lxb5 Sf6 6. Sf3 Dh6 7. d...
Chess is awesome! All people should like it even if they can't play it!
What would you think about a player that enters in a challenge with you, he (or she) is pressing about moving ("move plz"; "Are you there?") and when he has a smal advantage take his time to move (days)? You look for his ...
Okay, this is a magic trick, a mind magic trick. First pick any number, but a number 1-10 would be easier for you. Got it? Good. Now double your number (times is by two). Then add 10. Divide it by 2. Now take the number you started with and subtra...
Positioning was key in this game. I had a chance to take black's queen, but instead, I ended up taking the game.
If your a beginner and want to play your first game, then you might just run into some trouble right before you start the game,and its always going to be in the place where you get matched up with another player. If that happens, just go ah...
Hey, I may be a beginner on this site but i've played before. Any way something that i think is completely wrong with chess (and trust me there is almost nothing wrong with chess) is that when u beat someone sometimes they don't tak...
Recently, i've stumbled upon a variation of chess called bughouse chess in my local chess club. I've tried out a couple of games and i have to say, i havn't been disappointed. In case your wondering waht bughouse chess is, well ...
