Bishop - When two Bishops are invading the enemy territory, a good hand will ensure the enemy pieces go one by one. The Bishop is adept at cleaning lone pieces and are best at faraway attacks ( open spaces ), unlike the Knight. Bishops ...
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...
White to effect smothered mate in 10 moves From the New Zealand Chess Magazine December 2008
Your King is your most valuable piece. When you start out your opening, you want to develop tempo for your Knights,Bishops,Pawns. After you open your pieces, CASTLE!!!!!!!!!!! Over the series of games that I played, when I didn't castle I lost mos...
Here is a well played game by Capablanca! Enjoy!
Their has been many battles between the Knight and the Bishop. In positions, each one has its own benifits.For example, kNIGHT does better inclosed positions with many pawns. The Bishop does better with fewer pawns and open diago nals. I will ...
Ok, I know it sound weird but what color piece is better? What color piece is going to make you a champion? For all my chess skill, I chose Black because, well of course, white always go first but however black let you know what opponent is thinki...
What do you think about my new opening?
Hello everyone! First, let me thank all readers of my column for their feedback. It gives me a lot of food for thought and also allows me to address your questions and concerns. Here I would like to answer a very simple and yet a very important ...
Smothered mate is a way of checkmating your opponent by turning their own pieces aginst their king. You will need to use sacrifice to perform smothered mate. Here is an example from a game I played. My opponent did not decide correctly which piece...
The Caro Kann Defense is a suitable answer to 1.e4. It can lead to positional and tactical games. In this game I was playing the black pieces. White was Roy Mallett, who was a master in that era. When answering 1.e4, he played the French Defense, ...
Hi there. For my first try as an article, i wanted to show you a game I played yesterday in a tournament that uccured in my club. This game starts like a King's Indian, but we are soon arriving in a typical structure, called Maroczy bind. At t...
Zugzwang is a term originally used in chess which also applies to various other games. The concept finds its formal definition in combinatorial game theory. It describes a situation where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make ...
This exciting game features a good alternative for Black to avolid the Four Knights, but Steinitz chooses the wrong defense and gets torn apart by Blackburne. Much of the action is at f7, though the center is the main battlefield.
There are so many ways to record a game of chess that I decided to create a short summary of these. There are three main systems: algebraic, descriptive and numeric. Other systems are different kind of variations of these. I am using the Sicilia...
After Part 1 on The Power of Exchange Sacrifices I got a couple of responses where readers asked me to give examples of unsuccessful exchange sacrifices. Over the past few years, since I discovered the power of giving up a rook for a light piece, ...
Knight...... Believe it or not, the Knight is as hard to capture as the Queen. Normally, a Knight leaves the board due to either carelessness or an exchange. If the opponent is good, he or she can capture the Knight by trapping it. This requir...
Pawn: The weakest of pieces. However, there are eight of them, so if used efficiently and wisely, a pawn structure can block even the best of strategies. Also, the pawn can work with another piece to take down the enemy. As there are eight pawns,...
Here is a truly well-played endgame by Fischer. It is part of his run to his historic match with Boris Spassky in 1972. He is able to get a small advantage from the opening and middlegame, which he translates into a bishop vs knight endgame. There...
1st a Rook, then a Knight, and then another Rook! Garry Kasparov sacrificed all of these pieces and still managed to get the win against Veselin Topalov in Netherlands, 1999. Immortal? Yes... The action began with 24. Rxd4? cxd4 25. Re7+ Kb6 26. Q...
It was nice to read your overwhelming responses to last week's Najdorf article. We could see plenty of opening requests, however we are writing only one article a week, and we will try to cover all our readers' interests eventually. Also having se...
The following game was given the title as the best game played at Gibraltar. Varuzhan Akobian demonstrated wonderful attacking mastery, but in the end, the game funneled out into an exciting draw. I have annotated the game.
After World War I, a group of players came to fame whose ideas were to cause a considerable revision in chess thinking. Aaron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935), Richard Reti (1889-1929), and Gyula Breyer (1894-1921) headed the school. Also Saviely Tartakowe...
The Urusov Gambit can prove to be a dangerous weapon to use against 2...Nf6 in the bishop's opening. At the cost of a pawn can come a dangerous attack. It is not as dangerous for white as the King's Gambit, itself. The Urusov Gambit ensures a g...
