This is the second and final (for now) part of the article. You can find the 1st part here. Please re-read it before continuing. The premise of this article was to share with you two conceptual ideas that I've developed in the certain types...
White sets a trap and takes control of the board..
This recent game features a lot of exchanging and maneuvering. Shirov is up a pawn, but how does he take advantage of it? Suddenly, a simple move by white turns into disaster as a sudden blow ends the battle.
The Giuoco Piano (Italian: "quiet game") is the oldest recorded opening.Damiano played it at the beginning of the 16th century and the Italian Greco played it at the beginning of the 17th century. The opening is also known as the Italian Game, alt...
I learned to play chess in the Merchant Navy when I was seventeen. I loved the game and soon became the ships champion. Although it appeared that I had a talent for chess, it was too bad that I never had any proper training so I became a wood-push...
During my extensive research on Jackson Showalter, I recently came across an article from 1916 that details an inexplicable eleven move checkmate suffered by then American chess champion Frank Marshall at a Brooklyn, New York simul. The article ...
Here is a game from the 2009 Moscow Open, IM Zubov - IM Krylov with full annotations and commentary: This was a very nice game to show the power of the discovery tactical motif in chess. In this game white was able to suc...
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...
In this game, Alexander Alekhine advanced his Pawn with confidence into Charles Watson's territory. It acted as a catalyst for White's demise as Black's Queen, Rook, and Bishop follow through onto a nice post. (18... e4 was the beginning of the en...
Canada and America have competed in every conceivable type of event. In hockey Canada has dominated, in war we're tied, sort of, and in everything else, including chess, America has tended to dominate. Which is why the recent continuation of this...
Zukertort's win in the London 1883 chess tournament was his most significant success: he won his games against most of the world's leading players, scoring 22/26, and he finished 3 points ahead of Steinitz, who was second with 19/26.This tournamen...
In this game, two chess greats go against each other, combining attack with defense in an all-out attempt to win. The game is extremely complex, some of the correct moves still unclear.
Eugene Torre is part of Philippine history because of his skills in playing the game of CHESS.He is known as Asia's First Chess International Grand master.He competed and won in many competitions abroad.He is best known for his victory over Anatol...
I have been plannng for weeks to show the game IM David Pruess won against GM Jesse Kraai this year in Berkeley. Yesterday and today, the news on this site indicates that David Pruess has been hired to work here. This game is an example of his abi...
In this game, Robert Fischer offers up his Queen, in a swindle, to get Minor combat against Samuel Reshevsky! His trade left himself with two Rooks and a Knight facing Black's Queen. Despite these odds, Fischer makes good use of each and every one...
This is a truly instructive game! Kasparov debates opening theory, successfully as usual. He works up a fierce kingside attack, augments it with queenside play, then uses a series of exchanges to render the enemy king indefensible. This was an imp...
A long misunderstood factor of chess for many beginners and some advanced players is the concept of strategical planning. Many people think that planning in chess is a long and hard calculated sequence of moves, 30 moves deep, in which it assure...
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin was a leading Russian chess player. He served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet school of chess," which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century.He became serious about ...
hi in this article i will try to tell you how much each peices value is. In chess, the chess piece relative value system conventionally assigns a point value to each piece when assessing its relative strength in potential exchanges. T...
This is believed to be Petrosian's finest game. His opponent makes a few inaccuracies in the opening, enabling him to take over the position. After that, he makes use of a long and complex strategy to slowly maneuver his way to victory.
Anyone who plays the Torre should be aware of this new line as a way of possibly facing the most challenging line to play against for any Torre player. Here's a very interesting amateur game annotated again by GM Aaron Summerscale:
Hereby I would like t present a fine game for aspiring chess players. You can find a rarely used (but oh good) Old Benoni Defence. The match is fine but the point of this game is to show you what most of you will not see in it. At the end of the g...
Boby Fischer was a superb technician who knew how to turn small advantages into game winners. In this game, from my "Learn from Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games" (about to get a new edition), we learn how to enhance and exploit the advantage o...
Play with a plan. always Sometimes we do get bored and just make random waiting moves, not bothering to think about what is the real best move. Although sometimes this is necessary, usually it is not and sucks out the fun from chess...
