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...
Here is a game from the 16th Asian Cities Team Championship, GM Ghaem Maghami - IM Eid with full annotations and commentary: This game was very interesting as it featured two important points where both sides made questio...
Jeremy Silman in his book 'Silman's Complete Endgame Course' makes the statement that this Endgame isn't worth learning as it will only come up at most about 3 times in one's lifetime or possibly not ever at all. But it shouldn't take long for m...
The North American Chess Association (NACA) is proud to announce that the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) at Texas Tech University (TTU) has offered 2 undergraduate scholarships as special prizes at the 2009 US G/60 and US G/30...
Take the Knight Take the night, if it's on Black it can only move to White, and if it's on White it can only move to Black. It's as simple as that. Trace it's moves in a circle with it at the center. That way you won't be surpris...
Rubinstein again.Study starts from move 40
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...
This principle applies no more so than in the tricky d-pawn 'specials' (Torre Attack, London System, Stonewall and the Colle Systems). Here I'm going to show 2 games which I hope may be useful in illustrating this: one of my own games and then a...
Study plan. Your strength as a chess player is in close ratio to the time you can play and study the game. Certainly allowances must be made for talent and age but these, if they are a handicap, can be overcome by spending more time on the game. ...
I will always remember the day I signed up for my first chess club. Even though most of the members there were about my age (7-8 years old), they all seemed more experienced and smarter than me. So, when one of the kids asked me if I w...
Siegbert Tarrasch was born March 5, 1862 and died February 17, 1934. He was one of the best players of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Around 1890, he may have been the best. World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz offered him the opportunity to p...
When one side has just king and the other has king and a pawn ,the side with the lone king can still pull out a draw.Here is the trick: From here on if you make a bad move you're dead.Here is what you should do:
white to move..mate in 3 moves there's also a different way to mate it..
This past week I played in the Foxwoods Open, one of the major US tournaments. Every year top GMs as well as less qualified players get together to play (chess, as well as other things…) at the world’s largest casino in Connecticut. T...
We will continue our study of the IQP in the Panov-Botvinnik attack. We had given the main ideas related to the IQP pawn structure in last week's article, so we will get right to business this time with the games. The next game is a beautiful mi...
Nine years later after the match between Labourdonnais and Mac Donnell, the same situation occurred but this time, in Paris, with an Englishman challenging a Frenchman, and in both cases the guest triumphed. The match Saint Amant – Staunton ha...
Many beginners play chess, lose, get all mad and play again, without finding out why they lost. It's impossible to lose without making a mistake, so a great way to improve is to analyze your games afterwords and see where you made a mistake. By a...
"The pawn (♙♟) is the weakest . . .piece in the game of chess, representing infantry, or more particularly armed peasants of pikemen."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_(chess)] It's true that a pawn only has a value of 1 point. But let's try to l...
(Editor's note: Due to a lengthy tour of European tournaments, GM Bhat will miss a couple weeks in his column. For those interested in his results and some of his games, you may wish to check out his blog, http://vbhat.wordpress.com/ . You should ...
