The Immortal Sacrifice Game
An amazing demonstration of the art of the sacrifice. One can imagine the guts white must have had in going forward. Faced with a threefold repetition, he gave away a rook and even more for mate.
Chess in Schools
The Annenberg Foundation is one of the biggest contributors to chess in America’s public schools. The same foundation that sponsors the Annenberg Challenge that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers are linked to (Chicago Annenberg Challenge) also sponsors...
The First EVER Budapest Gambit!
Okay... I'm sure a game existed somewhere before this one - but this is the first recorded one by a "Grandmaster" (hence the invention of the name). Alder – Maróczy, Budapest, 18961.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ng4 4.Nf3 Bc5 5.e3The standard opening of ...
Book Review: Mastering The Chess Openings
Mastering The Chess Openings: Unlocking The Mysteries Of The Modern Chess Openings is a two volume set authored by John Watson. The first volume includes sections on opening principles, but otherwise is dedicated to King's Pawn openings, and the ...
Chess boxing
Chess boxing is a game where two people play chess and boxing. They play three minutes of each game. Who ever gets KO or checkmate loses. On to the video.
Amazing loss
This was a famous game played by Capablanca. Its really short. I couldn't help, but posting it. Of course, Capablanca won, but that was short for grandmasters isn't it?
Scholar's Mate
Don't you think its werid if people fall for scholar's mate. You would have to be a serious beginner to fall for. I even heard at the nationals people fall for it. Now isn't that sad. Hopefully, people will grow out of it. If you don't know what I...
Pawn Offer in Middlegame - A Weapon of World Champions
100 years ago in Duesseldorf/Germany took place the World Championship between Germans Lasker and Tarrasch. In the second game Tarrasch came out of the opening and early middlegame with a superior position. So Lasker tried to confuse him a littl...
Rating Inferiority Complex
Here is a game from the 61st Russian Championship, GM Tomashevsky - GM Morozevich with full annotations and commentary: This game is a good example of overcoming the "Rating Inferiority Complex". Many times players will...
Flash of Inspiration
The preliminary tournament of St Petersburg 1914 brought with it many great games, such as this one: (http://blog.chess.com/benws/double-bishop-strike), but the one that beat it out for the first brilliancy prize was this nice tactics battle by Ca...
300,000 Members!
HOURRAYYY! Chess.com has reached an all time high of 300,000 Members! I Congratulate and thank all the staff, erik, and of course the members that have contributed and made this site a better place. I have only been at this site for a couple of mo...
Windmill tactic
I plan to help people be able to make windmill tactics appear in your games. This tactic is all ready sparce in a lot of games. This tactic is hard to explain, so excuse me if I often use the board. It is when white or black checks then take showi...
Fried Liver!
How'd it get called the "Fried Liver"? I don't know, but here's a little trick for begginers:
World Championship Computer-assisted Predictions
GM Ray Keene and I will be doing a book on the upcoming Anand-Kramnik match that will appear shortly after the match. We mplan to preview much of the material here. We'll start with a bit Ray wrote on a new computer predicition project. Persona...
His Own System
Capablanca had his own distinct way of thinking. This game is a good illustration of that. He uses principles like zugzwang and preventing counterplay to totally lock down his opponent. Some think he might have read My System and used its principl...
Puzzle X
A puzzle i saw in a group i am in. I thought i would share.
Philidor!
François-André Danican Philidor 1726 - 1785) was a French C\hess player and composer. He was regarded as the best single chess player of his age. Although the title of World Chess Champion was not yet in existence. Philidor's book Anal...
What a Year!
It is amazing how time flies. I have been in Chess.com a little over a year, it has been a year of many joyful Chess victories as well as devastating and frustrating losses. I have also enjoyed the privilege of meeting wonderful people in the US a...
Hurricane
Hastings 1895 brought with it the surprise victory of the great Pillsbury. This is one of his games, in which he demonstrates his forceful and powerful play. A dashing kingside attack is what insues.
Magnus Carlsen's First GM Norm
In 2004, Magnus Carlsen of Norway became the second youngest player to earn the title of international grandmaster at 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days. The first norm was at the Corus GMC in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands in January 2004. The second nor...
development vs material
this is what happens if you go for material and not developing
The Magnus Effect
We've all heard of the great Magnus Carlsen and his achievements. So here's my little tribute to him: a game that will probably make its way into the tactics books within the near future.
anti-caro kann opening
Here it is::::::::::: 1.e4 c6 2. d4 ? 3.c3
rook sac2
A 10/0 game i played: this is a game i played with a friend in this game i saced a rook at the opening and got got play for it and i eventually won
