Attacks at the kingside castle
Below i have two interesting examples about how someone can penetrate king's defenses.Enjoy! Don't forget to check "MOVE LIST"
Book Reveiw: The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery, by Jeremy Silman
Hello fellow beginners! Have you ever opened a chess book written by an illustrious GM, and found your head swimming within the first three pages? I know I have. It just goes to show you that just because you can play chess at a master level, doe...
The High Window
When I used to attend the chess class at the Fremont Public Library every Friday afternoon, Richard Shorman often used to show us the games of Morphy and Capablanca. I tend to play crazy games these days (see the game with Bobras), but that sort o...
Mysterious Flank Pawn Advance
Here is a game from the 2009 Reykjavik Open, GM Oleksienko - IM Grandelius with full annotations and commentary: This game was a very instructive lesson about pawn play, especially flank pawns. When you advance your flank pawns as ...
Your Questions Answered By Andrew Martin
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 and...
The Sicilian Pelikan a blast from the past
Hi everyone have a little bit of a suggestion for you. There are people in this world that are straight forward and totally honest. Some are the cheating scoundrels that we hear about for cutting corners. Then we have the tricksters, like me. ...
Why is Bobby Fischer considered the best?
Gary Kasparov was much more consitent and achived a rating peek of 2851. While as Bobby Fischer was the youngest GM but wasnt world champion for a long time and once he was world chess champion he left and no one hear of him after wards. So i woul...
Hard Candy, Part Two
In the first part of the article last week we discussed the hidden danger of innocent-looking openings. The idea is to take off guard an opponent who mistakenly thinks that a very modest (sometimes even primitive) opening is equivalent to a lack ...
Reshevsky Made Brilliance Look Easy
Samuel Reshevsky was born in Russian ruled Poland Nov. 26, 1911 and died in New York April 4, 1992. After learning to play at age four, Reshevsky was a celebrated prodigy who gave simultaneous exhibitions at the age of eight. His family came to th...
3 Knights CheckMate
CheckMate in 7 move whit 3 knight in a good position but this position comes form one of the worse position that took 49 move to force black into checkmate. ...
Trade two for one and see what happens
There are two wings on a regular airplane, right? What if I tell you there is only one wing? You can call me insane, out of my mind or just ignorant. This would be the first thought you might initially have. Then I tell you that I did my undergra...
Sicilian-phobia Part Four - Alapin Variation
According to the Gameknot database, the Alapin Variation is the third most popular reply to the Sicilian. Many top grandmasters have used sometimes during their chess playing career - giving Alapin a reputation of solid, and highly respectable. I...
A Gruenfeld Trap
The Hypermodern Nimzo by GM Prasad and GM Panchanathan
This week we will be studying the Nimzo Indian defense. This opening was introduced by Grand Master Aron Nimzowitsch who can be called the Father of the so-called "hypermodern" chess era existing today. He has been one of the most influential writ...
An Argentine Nightmare
Several days ago I was watching a wonderful DVD on the Najdorf variation created by Garry Kasparov. Garry who besides being considered one of the greatest chess players in the history of the game is also becoming one of the best commentators of th...
Hippocleides doesn't care
For those of you folllowing David Pruess's blog here on chess.com, you'll know that 4 of us from the Bay Area went to play in Cappelle la Grande, France. Before the tournament, we spent a few days in Paris, where one of Jesse's friends (Jason Ston...
The Pressure of Being Higher Rated
Here is a game from the 4NCL, WIM Winkelmann - GM King with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw a dramatic rating difference between the two players. It was white at the disadvantage and black as the much higher ...
Book Review: Chess Tactics For Champions
Sure, I know what you are thinking: "YATB, Stick? Really?" Yup, that's right, Yet Another Tactics Book, folks. I figure that I can always do with some more tactics study in whatever form it might take, and Susan Polgar's Chess Tactics For Cham...
Rooks at the 8th:A powerful weapon
We will see with some examples of how useful is the invasion of one (or two) rook at the 8th (or 1st) rank.
Your Questions Answered By Andrew Martin
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 and...
Edinburgh vs. London, the first CC match!
I recently stumbled across Jan Van Reek's chess site, which includes a History of Correspondence Chess page and some annotated databases. One finds there a PGN collection of great historical CC games -- including the game given below, which is the...
Instructive Bishop Endgame
Many of you are probably familiar with the principle that, when a bishop is on the board in an endgame, you want to push your pawns on the opposite color of that bishop and keep your opponent's pawns on the color of that bishop. So, for instance, ...
The Final Round: A Story
The Final Round By R. Christopher This is the final round of a major chess tournament. A tournament Pyper should not have been in. The players, three of those in the world’s top ten, the rest all Grandmasters in the top fifty, and he...
Marshall the Technician
Frank Marshall (1877-1944) won the U.S. championship in 1904, but refused the title because Harry Pillsbury was unable to play. In 1907, Marshall lost a world title match against the champion, Emanuel Lasker. Marshall became the U.S. champion in 1...
