As promised in the previous article, today I bring a very curious game. Undoubtedly, two strategists face to face. And besides, two Argentines. Miguel Najdorf, although born in Poland, but developed his most important chess race in my country. S...
"No Stress Chess" is a chess set that comes with a deck of cards - 56 in fact. These cards show you a picture of a piece or pawn and how the piece or pawn can move. The idea is that once you set up the board - and move two pawns forward to make ...
I have been playing chess for as long as my daughter who is pre-school. We just started on Christmas Day. She interested me in the game due to her remembering chess from a Harry Potter Movie. As we strolled in the library looking for something ...
Stefano Roselli del Turco was a strong international chess player in the 1920’s and 1930’s. He won the Italian Chess Championship in 1920, 1923, and 1931. Even this strong chess master was not immune to bad games or blunders. At the famous 1925...
Finding good moves to play in a game is what we all strive for. Yet over and over we repeatedly make blunders and bad moves. Finding good moves have been written about by the likes of Capablanca, Lasker, Tarrasch, Pachman, Kotov, Dvoresky and man...
I bring to share with you some of my fellow countryman Miguel Najdorf, the greatest chess player in my country (as I understand it). Miguel Najdorf (born Mendel (Mieczysław) Najdorf in Grodzisk Mazowiecki near Warsaw, Poland, April 15, 1910 – died...
Here is a game from the 51st Reggio Emilia Tournament, GM Marin - IM Shytaj with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw good execution of the reversed Sicilian starting out of the English opening. This...
When mankind has wanted to make predictions, he (and she)Â has (have), over time, turned to the stars, the sun, crystal balls, philosophers, religious prophets and gurus, scriptural writings, and a sundry of other devices, not to ignore history, it...
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...
Earlier this night I was feeling lazy and decided to follow some games in livechess. Watching one game, I thought I saw a trick that the players overlooked. I was wrong, but with a slight alteration the trick would have worked and in fact be a lot...
In the early days, having a big pawn centre was thought to be an instant advantage to the player owning it. That was until Nimzowitsch, Reti, and others of the kind entered the chess world. Although those players have long retired from tournament ...
In this game, Robert Fischer launched a deadly King-side attack through 28. Nxh3. This allowed his Bishop to wreak havoc on White's King and this left Viktor Korchnoi defenceless! Fischer took advantage of this with a quick Knight-Bishop swap. Her...
Can anyone please list some good opening books for both sides?
In this game, Robert Fischer battles Robert Byrne in the U.S. Championship of 1963. They played the King's Indian defence: Finachetto Variation. A notable SAC in this game is 15. Nxf2, played by Fischer! To Byrne, it looked like a tasty treat. To ...
Here is a game I played against a player who had defeated me twice prior. I pinned his knight and rook then took control of the ending. I made a few mistakes in the ending but, it still ended well. Check it out I hope you enjoy. I sure did.
Tal breaks out in style in this game, with a long combination lasting no less than 13 moves. It involves quite a few sacrifices, with the inevitable queening of a pawn. It helped him to get bronze in this championship. EDIT: FINE. THESE ANNOTATIO...
I have noticed that many chess.com players, and chess players who don't play on chess.com, do not know how to write notation, which is used to look back on your game to see your strong moves and weak moves. Notation is really pretty simple: You ...
The famous Adolf Anderssen - Lionel Kieseritzky , London 1851 game is know as the "Immortal Game." Anderssen sacrificed two rooks and the queen to produce a mate with two knights and a bishop. Other games have been dubbed "immortal" by chess write...
Based on an analysis of the comments posted in the forums whenever the topic of RESIGNING is raised, here are ALL of the main reasons players give for either RESIGNing or, alternatively, CONTINUING TO PLAY until either checkmate, stalemate or a dr...
Here is one of Robert Fischer's BEST games where he faces off against Milan Matulovic. They played the Spanish Game: Schliemann Defence- Dyckhoff Variation. With his sacrifices, he is down on material with time ticking away (3 MINUTES). To counter...
This is a game that took place in London, 1841. It is between H W Popert and N.A. Here, Popert makes an extraordinary Knight SAC to gain some positional advantage. His SAC worked leaving N.A. with an undeveloped Bishop & Rook WHILE Popert's pi...
MIR SULTAN KHAN (born 1905, died Apr-25-1966) Pakistan Mir Sultan Khan was born in 1905 in Mittha in the Punjab, India. His prowess at the Indian variety of chess brought him to the notice of Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan who taught him the ...
Here we see an old game from 1935. Salo Flohr, normally a classic positional player and endgame expert, had build up with a King`s Indian set-up and played now a typical kingside attack.- White tried to lock the kingside, but at last a halfopen h...
Black unleashes a devastating maneuver in this game. In a combination reminiscent of the Rubinstein masterpiece, two bishops on the long diagonal and rooks watching over them lead to a nice queen sac.
