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...
Last week, I annotated a win over GM Nidjat Mamedov (viewable here). While the game against Mamedov may have made that line of the King's Indian look like a forced win for White, chess is rarely that simple. Continuing with the same theme of the b...
THIS GAME HELPS YOU TO THINK A LOT IN YOUR FUTURE GAMES.ECO-E4 E5 {an 8 move game enjoy and i'll be hearing from you later}and note this-excersice #1 {1.e4 ..e5 2.Nf3 ..d6 3.d4 ..Nd7 4.Bc4 ..c6 5.Ng5 ..Nh6 6.Be7{what is the correct move that Blac...
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...
I played in the Reykjavic Grand Open a couple of times. The winter storms throughout the event inspired some stormy weather at the chessboard. The game presented below involves a positional queen sacrifice that turns out to be well-justified. Tal ...
This is Smothered Mate is very fun to do against your opponent!!!
Last week we discussed how to avoid falling into an opening trap. But wouldn’t be it cool to set a trap on our own? At first it looks like not a difficult task since we learn all kinds of opening traps from the moment we start playi...
Great way to win!
Blackburne Gambit
This is an amazing checkmate that I have played.
This is a great way to draw if you are losing. Perpetual Check is a great way to force a draw
Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995) was the Soviet champion numerous times and world champion most of the years from 1948-1963. One of the openings he was well known for playing was the Caro Kann Defense. With the white pieces, he pioneered the 6.Bg5 li...
Here is a very interesting game played by Emanuel Lasker and Wilhelm Steinitz in England, 1895. Here, White is quick to attack with 24. Qc3 pinning Black's e5 Pawn and preparing for a series of "interesting" attacks on Black's defence. It continue...
Eugenio Torre (born November 4, 1951) is a chess Grandmaster. More commonly known as Eugene Torre, he is considered the strongest chessplayer the Philippines produced through the 1980s and 1990s period, following the heels of Fischer era Filipino ...
Every strong player has his own chess signature. Smyslov is an endgame virtuoso, Tal is a wizard of attacking sacrifices, Topalov is famous for his imagination and creativity, Tigran Petrosian has many games with dynamical exchange sa...
Here is a very entertaining game by Morphy. In the opening, his opponent offers a rook, but he declines to achieve the superior position. Next, he creates a passed pawn, which sets it up for a fantastic ending.
This will be our first article aimed at guiding enthusiastic chess fans with useful opening ideas. Rather than focusing on deep calculation and analysis, our goal is to provide the readers with a better objective understanding of opening theory. P...
I’m not here to tell you about the strategic goals of the Caro-Kann Defence’s Alekhine Gambit (1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Bd3!?) or about the world’s best opening (what ever it is). I’m about to tell you the basic opening princip...
This shows a classic pawn storm turned mating attack in the King's Indian Defense. This is a game every King's Indian player should know by heart, the strategies in it are fundamental.
How do you think when you get to a quiet position? Do you try and calculate a lot of variations, or do you try to make long-term plans? Normally, in the absence of a lot of tactics, these are the sorts of positions where strategic thinking trumps ...
