A nice game by Hoi, in which he outwits an great russian player. He commits himself to a kingside attack early, and doesn't turn back. A few astounding sacrifices follow, and when his opponent stumbles, catches him in a unique mate. oh yeah...and...
Man when I first stated chess it was hard. then a got a little better. i mean the people that i played with are really good. I tied once it was a good game to me well just doing the first article have fun on chess.com
Here is a wonderful game played by Michael Adams but lost.
I often hear chess referred to as a sport. To me it is clearly not a sport. When I think of a sport such as soccer, basketball, swimming, etc. what is involved is competition requiring highly developed physical skills and attributes of the play...
Here is the recent online correspondence game, played mostly “real-time”. After 14. f4 I looked at the different ways of saving the bishop, didn’t like h6, etc.. and decided to sacrifice a pawn by playing 14. … Be4. I saw that I have a c...
Here is a game from the special Kasparov & Corse Team match, GM Kasparov - CM Vilaisarn with full annotations and commentary: This game brings back old memories of when Kasparov was at the top of the chess world. But it is ...
Black moves. He plays 1 ... RxB!
When we see that a player practically gives us a piece is easy for us to get confused, because inmediately we doubt, was a gift or a poisoned apple? Thats why we have to watch out on each single play we do. Thats what chess is about guess the oth...
Who is the strongest chess player in the world? We can assume that it is Viswanathan Anand after he won the 2008 world chess championship, followed by Vladimir Kramnik, his challenger. But on the official world chess federation (FIDE) rating for...
Chess players have a reputation of being a bit antisocial, and it's not suprising when the average chess.com chat log looks something like this: Chess_Guy 1: hey Chess_Bloke 2: hey Chess_Bloke 2: hurry up about it Chess_Guy 1: gg Chess_Blok...
This is a nice demonstration of the power of the pawn. The white f-pawn quickly goes to work by picking off a black rook and then giving itself up (queen sac included) to allow the winning double check checkmate.
Several years ago, I taught in a middle school behavior disorder middle school. One of the first things I implemented was chess training for my students. I did it because they were interested in the game and so I thought it would be a good way to ...
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Here is a chess puzzle:
Miles was in many ways a controversial figure. Once, in the last round of a tournament with Miles needing a draw for first place, and his opponent wanting a draw for a high placing, he agreed a draw without playing any moves. The arbiter decided t...
here are some type of checkmates: 1. FOOL'S MATE is the fastest checkmate available in chess. Of course there is something called Stalemate when: the ki...
Frank Marshall (1877-1944) was the chess champion of the United States from 1909 to 1936 when he gave up the title. He played a match against Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1907. Despite losing to Lasker with 8 losses and 7 draws, Ma...
Target Audience: 1400-2000 Hey guys! The following is a position that occured in one of my friendly games with my friend in school. In this position, Black has a minor advantage with his rooks being stronger than the white rooks! I played Blac...
A pin is when you keep a piece in place, so your opponet doesn't lose a better piece like so: A scewer is when you opponet is force to move a better piece, and then you take a less value like this:
Parimarjan Negi (1993-) is a 15-year-old chess prodigy from India. In July 2005, he earned his third and final International Master norm at the Sort International Open Chess Tournament in Sort, Spain. On July 2006, at the tender age of 13 years, 4...
The telegraph match of 1890/91 between Chigorin and Steinitz was probably one of the more interesting ones in history. This game, the first of the two, demonstrates Chigorin's unique style of play.
Bring you queen out after 7 moves and you will always win.
Doesn't everyone just love when you have two rooks and your opponant has nothing? The checkmate process is wonderful and the more I do it, the more fun it gets! If you do not know how to mate with two rooks, your rating is probably under 1000, and...
We all like to have a passed pawn in our games. A passed pawn in our opponent`s hands may be not to our pleasure. So we should try to get him ourselves as a measure to set our opponent under pressure.- When the passed pawn comes more forward, th...
