Hi chessplayers, here s a funny match i have played, from first sight, it appear a boring game, but the fun is at the end !! ( you know!like a rock concert!) , perhaps the title is somehow strange, but it will show it self in the game..i want to s...
session 2:hello all welcome to session 2,kann here now let's learn some strategys,note:try it yourself,if you did'nt get it click for solutions: 1 Rook endings: some may think that a K+R v/s K is a draw,but it's not.anyway a K+R is not a simple ...
This game was played by the then current Russian World Champion, Boris Spassky and challenger, American Robert Fischer. This game caused a stir because Fischer had never played 1. c4 before in a serious match. He is well-known for saying 1. e4 is ...
This the game Kasparov on where he beat the supercomputer "Deep Blue".. See how Kasparov use non-theoretical moves to avoid early confrontations, to positional advantages.
Everybody knows about Adolf Anderssen's combinations: "the Immortal" and "the Evergreen"... but, who knows about the positional games from Anderssen?! Yes, its true, Anderssen was a great positional player! Of course he shines in combinational pla...
     This variation is known as the Checkhover Variation, and I will be going farther and exploring the Polgar system. The move order to reach this is exactly the same as the open Sicilian. We start as I said in the open Sicilian. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf...
Picture yourself in a battle. You have a huge army of footmen and it is your advantage. But would you like it when you own soldiers are crowded around you, preventing you from moving? That's what a bad bishop is like. A bad bishop is a bishop trap...
You know how there are always some games that you win in a really sad way? Well, here are some of my saddest wins. Â Â Â Â Â Â
Here is a game from the recent GM rapid match, GM Akobian - GM Shulman with full annotations and commentary: As we see with this game the Benko Gambit opening can be explosive and have a big payoff. Here Black quickly gam...
Greetings CLO readers! The 2009 US Championship is fast approaching, and in two days, it will also be time to enter the third annual Fantasy Chess competition! After reading the rules below, login and go to this url to enter: http://uschess.org/...
Ray Robson of Largo, Florida, a fourteen year old International Chessmaster (“IM”), has been awarded thetwenty-fourth FRANK P. SAMFORD, JR. CHESS FELLOWSHIP. Ray is home-schooled and is able to devote four or more hours per day to chess study.  ...
A $64,000 bonus in memory of late chess champion Bobby Fischer and a jackpot bonus for a “clear” first-place winner have been added to the prizes being awarded at the 2009 U.S. Chess Championship. The tournament, which will be held May 7-17, 2009 ...
hi, i m new in chess.com wich i have found very interesting and instructional site, i enjoy comments of members and their game , and acknowledge their good level of play , also GM s games and commentary, here , i played a game in another site (bec...
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...
in my previous article I said that you should not underestimate your opponent no matter their age, size, sex etc. On the 25 of April 2009 I went to my countries second chess tournament which involved players from all around the country. Since ches...
In my previous articles I devoted a lot of time to opening traps. We saw different kinds of traps (good ones , bad ones) and we discussed how to avoid those nasty traps. But what if you deliberately want to fall into your opponent’s trap? Sounds...
Leonid Stein was born near Lvov, Ukraine, then in the Soviet Union, on Nov. 12, 1934 and died July 4, 1973. At the time, Stein was a world class player. He won the Soviet Armed Forces Championship in 1955. He became a master as a result of his 3rd...
There are many openings where black gets his knight to a5: Sicilian, Ruy Lopez, Gruenfeld etc. In the Gruenfeld the knight is a rather active piece there, while in the Ruy Lopez and Sicilian it does not do much there. I would like to take a look ...
This week we will study The King's Indian Defense (KID) Bayonet Attack. This sharp and dynamic opening was regularly employed by some of the World Champions like Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian. They introduced exce...
This is the best series of tactics I have ever seen, and the coolest ending.
Hello, I would like to show you some interesting chess puzzles, however not typical like "mate in 4". Hope you'll enjoy them, if you'll be interested in them I'll post more exercises like these. So let's start. First puzzle by unknown: Game star...
In May 1851, London staged the Great Exhibition to showcase British technology. There were already railroads everywhere and the modern ships had reduced the voyage to the Americas from one month to twelve days. London’s thriving chess communit...
This is an amazing position, where white's pawn beats black's rook.
Analysing our own games is very essential and perhaps one of the most important things to do in our chess preparations. There are certain ways to analyse our own games to get the maximum benefit out of it. Here is some advice: (1) write down as m...
