This is final 3rd game of the westfield quads and god I am tired by even the third game. I was very fine with a draw, in the toss I won and took white. its a each 45 minutes game and quad championship, so I get to play the remaining 3 top rated pl...
Robert James 'Bobby' Fischer, the great grandmaster of a truly amazing game chess was born on March 29, 1941 in Chicago, Illnoise. He was interested in chess since childhood.He learned the rules of chess only at the age of 6! He played and won maa...
International Master Andrew Martin from England presents a regular series of articles to answer any questions that Chess.com readers have about the game of chess. If you want to ask Andrew a question, then send an email to askandrew@chess.com an...
Viktor Korchnoi just keeps going, playing stellar chess even in his late 70s. He'll be playing in the Staunton Memorial this summer, so I thought it might be a good idea to remind you what a creative player he is. These three games are not his mos...
The English looks like this: white goes for d5 but not with the usual e4,he goes 1.c4 while still keeping his central pawns ready to advance.The other advantage is that he doesn't block his c2 pawn after Nc3. This is how it looks like,white's sec...
Here are the basic ideas behind the Sicilian and some variations.Pls don't hesitate to post anything regarding this opening. Both players rush for the center,white has d5 and f5,while black has d4 and b4.Usually white has initiative early in th...
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...
The US Chess Championship is the premier American event of the year. It is one of the longest running tournaments in the World ( dates back to 1845). Since all of the best US players participated in the US Championships, you can find many true g...
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...
This is one of Timman's best games. Facing off against the world champion Kasparov, he goes on a daring kingside attack. It only takes a minor slip-up for him to start a forcing combination to win the enemy queen. The picture is just to supposed ...
The US Championship is the event that all American players wait for with anticipation. This year it is being held at the glamorous St. Louis chess club from May 7 to 17 and gathers twenty four of the best American players. Let's just name few: Gat...
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...
In my new article of the series “Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a Chess Coach”, I would like to present to you one of my best games in my chess career. That game was played at one of the most important tournaments in Bulgaria – The semi...
The Cheating Chess Tournament ©2002 by NM Dan Heisman “That was the third person we caught recently who had a handheld computer with Pocket Fritz!” Chester Nimfield was distraught. As a member of the Hookley Valley Chess Club’s Organizing...
The Euler's 8x8 magic square. A magic square of order n is an arrangement of n^2 numbers (usually 1, 2, 3...) such that the sum of the numbers in all the rows, columns and big diagonals is a constant. For example: Here the sum of all rows, co...
After his victory in the First American Congress, Morphy received an invitation to participate in an international chess tournament to be held in Brimingham, England in the summer of 1858. This trip to Europe was the key moment in Paul Morphy's ch...
The game I will show you today was played in the first round; and I was playing against the top seed of the tournament, the highly creative Armenian super grandmaster Tigran L Petrosian. I am presenting this game because it's important in ch...
The problem consists in place 8 queen in a chessboard, but neither queen is able to attack other queen. I found this solution after 30 min, but don´t see it untill you solve the problem by yourself, totally are 12 unique solutions (92 counting ro...
Here's the checkmate for the Two Bishops (and King) against lone King): Now comes the most tricky 'basic' checkmate of them all: Bishop and Knight against the King. A very high proportion of strong club pl...
International Master Andrew Martin from England presents a regular series of articles to answer any questions that Chess.com readers have about the game of chess. If you want to ask Andrew a question, then send an email to askandrew@chess.com an...
I just played this game online (on ICC), and i thouht it was a good example of an attacking game. Some analysis would be helpful.
All chess fans and people who like beautiful girls - welcome to WGM Natalia Pogonina's website! There you will find lots of nice photos, Natalia's blog, chess games, tactics problems, etc. Don't miss a great opportunity to communicate in person w...
Often when a player is paired with someone ranked much higher, he doesn't follow his usual routine. A player who usually uses the Morra gambit against the sicilian suddenly goes for a quieter line. Others will try to trade off as much material as ...
This is one of my most recent games in which I foresaw a great tactical continuation. Let's see if you can find it. (Sorry if I am bragging) Please look at the move list!! It is in the wrong order, first is the game, then the less simplified puzzl...
