The 16th Computer Games Championship ended in a tie with Rybka and Hiarcs, an England Chess Computer. They beat all the other computers, but didn't play each other. Rybka drawed against Cluster Toga. Hiarcs drawed against Cluster Toga too.
A quarter of the games of th 1985 World Championship mathc between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov were over adn Karpov was leading b the score of 3.5-2.5. Kasparov does seem to have upped his game after defeats in games 4 and 5 which turned his...
Rooks need open and half-open files. This is a well known "truth"! *** Here is a 5-step-program 1. occupy a open line with one rook and control it 2. double rooks in that line 3. get with one rook at second or seventh rank 4. Get them both ...
I playing the french defense continuosly
This game was one of my game during our intramurals, playing the Ruy Lopez opening. I hope u'll like it
These are just some general things... for beginners! Make your plan but if circumstances change, formulate another quick! Don't continue, for example, building a pawn formation if the enemy is moving his pieces to attack your king. Don't panic! ...
The 1985 World Championship match had clearly taken a major turn in the last two games. After three games, challenger Garry Kasparov was leading 2-1 with a win and two draws but world champion Anatoly Karpov upped his game to win games 4 and 5 and...
This is a nice game from the young garry kasparov. Sacrfices abound, with excellent endgame play included. One is reminded of the legendary "game of the century" and bobby fischer.
Destructive sacrifice - "sacrificing material to destroy the pawn cover or other protection around the enemy king. Usually a point of no return" (dictionary). Many of us are familiar with the bishop sacrifices - Bxh2/h7/h3/h6/... etc. Rook sa...
A fairly common tactic, probably other articles on it, but even so... You put your pawns so they are supporting each other, as shown in the diagram. The opponent can only go on black squares, so make sure you have them well covered, otherwise a...
Here is an excellent game by Michael Adams. I hope you enjoy!
It was all square between reigning world champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Garry Kasparov after 4 games of the 1985 World Championship with two draws and both players having one win each. With Karpov winning the most recent game, Game 4 is se...
This article is about a game I played about 7 weeks ago. Let me tell you a little background of myself as far as chess is concerned. I live in Lahore, Pakistan and I picked up chess from my cousins. One of my cousin is currently Lahore number 4 pl...
Here is a game from the 2008 SPICE Cup, GM Stefansson - GM Miton with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw white play a nice balanced game. First he was able to put strong pressure along the black pawn on the ...
In this fourth article of the series “Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a Chess Coach”, I would like to present to you one of my best wins against chess players of high class – the so-called grandmasters. That game was played at one of the...
Try to solve this one. Thought it up and gave it to my folks to solve and they couldn't. You probably can, and really easy at that, but here it is anyway.
In this article from the “Inside the Master Mind: The Best Games of a Chess Coach”, I would like to show you one of my best recent games. That game was played at the prestigious open tournament in Teteven (Bulgaria) this year and my op...
Here is one of my favorite games of Michael Adams! I hope you enjoy!
Bronstein siezes the initiative with a few curious moves, and then a piece goes into breaking up black's kingside. Keres misses his chance and Bronstein claws back all the invested material and then wraps up the game.
A great player once said "Chess is 99% tactics!" While modern masters argue chess is only 90% tactics these days, it's still the most profitable area for amateurs to study. Tactical Warfare: The Pin Target Audience: <1600 on chess.com The ...
Here is another wonderful game played by Michael Adams when he was twelve.
Gata Kamsky won the final against Alexei Shirov 2.5-1.5 in last year's World Chess Cup. As a result he is to play a match against Veselin Topalov. The winner of that match is to play for the world championship against the winner of the match betwe...
Proof games what is a proof game? You might ask. well...a proof game is like retrograde chess but you are set up with a diagram, a short game.You will be a number of moves in which this diagram is set up in and your job is to try and see how did...
This article is about the first black grandmaster Maurice Ashley. Below are two videos and a game featuring him.
