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A Black Grandmaster

This article is about the first black grandmaster Maurice Ashley.  Below are two videos and a game featuring him.    

Fire-Dance

This is Gufeld's "Immortal Game." The game begins with both players attacking on opposite wings. Gufeld finds some nice moves to delay his opponent, and when he stumbles, finds some spectacular sacrifices.

Are you afraid of the Marshall attack ?

 Ruy Lopez, Marshall attack, are you afraid of it? You actually should be (frankly, I am afraid to play it for White). Two world champions played/play anti-Marshall lines to avoid it - Gary Kasparov, Kramnik, same with quite a few other GMs ,  wh...

Gueen's Indian Galore!

Here is one of Michael Adams hardest games to play. Finally after 87 moves he drawed with opponent Alexander Beliavsky.

Michael Adams vs Stefan Mohr

Here is the first game Michael Adams lost.

The Top 10 games of Michael Adams with complete analysis Game 1

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Bishop equals 3 pawns ... are you sure ?

Recently I had an endgame K+B+4P vs. K+6P. Despite of my expectations, the game ended in a draw. I was upset and decided to get to the root of it.   Bishop equals three pawns, we learned that at the beginning of our chess careers. So, if in the e...

Michael Adams vs Niel Dickenson

Here is a wonderful game by Michael Adams as white.

Michael Adams vs Zoltan Ribli

Here is a game that Michael Adams drawed as white.

Winning Technique

Here is a game from the 2008 SPICE Cup, GM Kaidanov - GM Stefansson with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw white go ahead an exchange for a pawn and the game entered into a technical phase where white had to ex...

Kasparov Undone

The 1983 qualifying cycle to determine a challenger for Anatoly Karpov was filled with chess legends both past and future.  In the quarterfinal round, up and coming Russian player Garry Kasparov faced off against fellow Russian, Alexander Beliavsk...

GameSquad Interview with Erik

Erik, the King of Chess.com , was gracious enough to grant me an interview for GameSquad, a gaming website I help to edit.  I am reposting the interview here for the enjoyment of the entire Chess.com community. Again, a big thank you to Erik for ...

Stalemate in 1

Pawnoffer in middlegame - to get and use an open file

Pawn offers are in middle game a strategic weapon, for example to open a file and use it for a rook. Let us look first at an easy example: 1. Black offers a pawn white should better not accept                             In tha...

Model Moves

This game turns into a race between white's kingside attack and black's attempts to destroy white's center. Geller gets his one fueled and going much better, and some subtle touches allow him to penetrate. A few tactics round it off.

THE DANCE OF HORSES(A DIFFICULT QUIZ)

TWO WHITE AND TWO BLACK HORSES HAVE BEEN PUT IN THE CORNERS OF A CHESS BOARD WITH 9 SQUARES(3X3).(THE TWO WHITE ARE IN THE FIRST LINE AND THE TWO BLACK ARE IN THE THIRD LINE). TRY TO EXCHANGE THE POSITIONS OF THE WHITE AND THE BLACK HORSES WITH T...

Michael Adams vs B Reddick

Here is another wonderful game by Michael Adams as white.

Michael Adams vs. David Sedgwick

Here is a another excellent game of Michael Adam's as white.

mate in 1

Mate in 3

SELFISHNESS DESTROY CHESS

Some chess players are so determined to win that forgot the main value of every mental game;pleasure. They use every way to reach their destination . Some days before i was playing with a man from Austria with higher rating than mine.  In the midl...

Michael Adams vs. Andrew J. Miur

Here is another good game of Michael Adams playing the Silician, his favorite opening. I hope you enjoy!

Michael Adams vs.Andrew J. Whitely

Here is a wonderful game by Michael Adams.

rook sac

in this game we saw a rook sac and then white(me) started attacking and eventually won AN exciting attacking game