For those unfamiliar with the chess games of Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov or Super Nezh for short, we'll go through a great game of his which served as inspiration for a recent blitz game I played. By the way, if you have no clue who I'...
This game shows Lasker in his best form as he shows the best way to deal with an isolated pawn. He wins material, but still must win an endgame. How he does this is a treat to watch. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS AND TITLE BY IRVING CHERNEV.
Sometimes are moment when we are so confident of ourself and the games with weaks players this make that we make a huge blunder, but for our luck he didn't spot tactics.
A Four-week Chess Improvement Course with Micro-Drills The goal of this article is to greatly improve your Chess Vision: what you see in the first ten-second glance at the board. You will do this by repeating a set of micro-level exercis...
Yesterday's puzzle (March, 29th, titled "Advanced Tactics") was very interesting, and I posted quite a long text about it. As it is somewhere in the middle of several pages of posts, I suspect it won't be read much. Therefore I w...
This is one of my best game here in chess.com. Enjoy.
In this article you can see a tactic White uses to gain a queen by an error usually made by some chess players. You can now know the tactic, and avoid someone uses it against you.
Early in this game, White gets a grip on the queenside (known as the Pillsbury bind) to keep his opponent busy there. Then he conjures up mating threats on the kingside. Strained to the maximum, his opponent then falls victim to the inevitable com...
Here is one of my games which shows the importance of position over material... Comments are most welcome!
In this game the great Petrosian conjures up threats against a queenside pawn. Pachman is busy defending that, when suddenly a queen sacrifice on the kingside ends the battle. EDIT: one more comment and I will get this article locked or deleted. ...
Unless a pinned piece is pinned to the king, it can still move. You must still try calculate what happens if the opponent lets you get the queen, or mating square, or forking square, behind the "pinned" piece, because they just mig...
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There is a trick very usefull trick that is called: "center fork trick", it's accures alot in games and give the player who used it a usualy better position. Now, for the trick: ...
One concept that recently crossed my mind was how players can employ two seemingly unimportant pieces together to create a mind-blowing win. Below I have a diagram of a hypothetical game (this almost happened to me, but I caught...
Here is another brain teaser. Although these situations rarely come up in real games--or do they? It could be just that no one bothers to look hard enough or analyze after the fact--they are nevertheless great tools to improve one's game, espe...
Hi there, I'm a new member, just joined today (Oct. 10th 2007) and I thought that I would submit a fun puzzle I came across in Polgar's massive book of puzzles. I won't say any more about the puzzle because as soon as I give one h...
Selon Ziatdinov une méthode efficace pour améliorer son « niveau tactique » est de jouer des parties rapides. "Par rapide j’entends une, deux ou trois minutes maximum (G/1 – G/2 – G/3)…plus d...
"Nous n'avons pas d'idée à propos de la nature "réelle" des choses, et cela ne nous intéresse pas particulièrement. La fonction d'un modèle est d'arriver à une de...
This exercise will work for most players rated below 2400. It will improve your tactical vision. Prerequisites: Knowledge of chess notation (algebraic recommended). This is normal since most professional chess tutorials start with an overview of t...
Mate in 4
