Chess: A Tragic Comedy Illustration
Chess: A Tragic Comedy Illustrationby: Jason del Argoa.k.a. Progressive GrooveDecember 20, 2008
"Puzzle #4, #5"
8 Queens
I know a brainteaser where you must put 8 Queens on the board where none of them can attack eachother. It took me a while to solve, but I eventually got it. I'm not going to show it, I want to see if you can get it!!
Mikhail Tal and the Positional Sacrifice
To sacrifice or not to sacrifice? That is the question. Of course, sacrifice at time can be demanded by positions for either swift mate or protection of one's own monarch. The real test of a player then may lay in his ability to recognize the s...
Ruy Lopez Classical Defense
The Classical Defense to the Ruy Lopez uses 3...Bc5. This idea has been played for hundreds of years with the aim of obtaining active piece play. White can use the position of the bishop on c5 to play c3 and d4, which gains a tempo in the struggle...
Chess: A Tragic Comedy
[Taken from Chapter 6] "The Viennese master, Ernst Gruenfeld, has the reputation of knowing more about [chess] openings than any other player. From this encyclopedic knowlege he has distilled the uninspiring conviction that every [chess] game sho...
Indonesia gets first woman grand master of chess
Indonesian chess player Irene Kharisma Sukandar finally reached the top of career as the first Woman Grand Master (WGM) and Woman International Masters (WIM) after earning her third norm, the coveted WCM title, the Jakarta Post reported on Thursda...
On Liver and Lollipops
The Fried Liver Attack and the Lolli Attack are two venerable ideas for white that spring from the Two Knights Defense. They are aimed at refuting black's play after the sequence 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. ed Nxd5 ?! This captur...
Defending
Many players, especially club-levelled ones, loses hope at the first sign of a need to defend, when actually, the position is quite playable, and their opponent does not have that much of an advantage as they thought. It was not until when Wilhel...
Nobel Prize Winners and Chess
Here is a list of Nobel Prize winners who also play or played chess. Zhores Alferov (1930- ). He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in electronics.. He invented the heterotransister. He is...
(Another) Fine Game
Fine is at his best here, using ingenuity to take down Capablanca. The endgame is a classic knights vs bishops standoff. In fact, Fine even gave up a pawn to achieve this situation.
Subtleties in a position
Annotated game on why sometimes the small details win the game in the end
Power Of Double Cheak
I was reviewing a few games and this was a really interesting game i came along. Studying this game i can clearly see that he set his opponent up for this blinded check mate. I know before i saw this i never considered the power of double che...
Chess.com Guide to Computer Settings and Maintenance
Most people don't know how to configure and maintain their computers. And that's OK... until something goes wrong and you want it fixed, and NOW! Trust us - we get dozens of bug reports and problem emails every day, and 90% of them are user-error,...
Chess Mentality
Chess is considered the “drosophila” of cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence studies because it represents the domain in which expert performance has been intensively studied and measured. In 1894, Alfred Binet demonstrated that go...
Power Pawn Play
Here is a game from the 2008 Bundesliga, GM Mainka - GM Buhmann with full annotations and commentary: This was a very instructive game to observe, especially with some of the pawn play. White started off with the unusual ca...
Reshevsky’s Tournament Debut - 1922
Samuel Reshevsky, the legendary chess prodigy who was born in Poland and later immigrated to the United States, made his tournament debut at the age of 10 years old. The site was the Chess Club International in New York City and the date was Octo...
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...
Attack in Caro Kann
There is one guy who is trying to show me that chess is not luck. Look for responses in my previous articles. That's why I'm submit my game from 13-14.12.2008. In this tournament I scored 7.0/9.0 and this game come from last round in which I...
Fool's mate
Fool's mate or Two-move checkmate is an embarassing way to own any chess noob who hasnt had any experience in playing rated chess. This quick checkmate appears VERY rarely in rated tournaments, since white (the losing side, it has to lose) looks l...
Studying Openings
All articles I wrote before this one are about a particular opening. For my 4th one, I'd like to do something else for a change. First of all, I'd like to give you, the readers, a question. Is it really worth the time to study openings? Or can y...
Spare my Liver
I used to play the Fried Liver myself - that was until i learned that sometimes, the priority of development overweighs a meer pawn. The Fried Liver seems to be especially popular in junior events. But seriously, and I try to say this in the most...
2008 Burbank U18 Finals
The finals took place on 15th of November and here it goes the $2000 price to the winner. This tie breaker came to the boy Alex Carmanav.
Palling Around
Benko is in his element in this game, as he quickly acquires a passed pawn on the 7th rank. However, it takes some fancy manoeuvring to get white's defense to crack. This he accomplishes in style. IMPORTANT: need some help, guys. A friend of mine...
