The Modern Opening, like the Pirc Defense, which it freqently transposes into, allows White great choice in establishing a pawn center. Black will challenge that center later in order to get counterplay. In this game, from Russia's big annual Aero...
The great London tournament of 1862 was one of the strongest tournaments of the 19th century and only the second event recognized as a true international chess tournament. Several legendary players participated and many great games and novel...
"Shakespeare also was a terrorist : "words, words, words...he said." It's just about some considerations, nothing purely technical: About my nickname : An article about Fischer on the web touched me deeply in 06, the title was : ...
Normally when we think of a queen sacrfice, a dashing mate in 5 or a fabulous combination to win a rook comes to mind. But what if we sacrfice the queen just for some material and a chance for an advantage? Those are some of the most brilliant que...
In this position, you are Black. You are down in material, down a knight for two pawns. The two extra pawns are doubled on the g-file and soon one or both of them can be lost. You are set for a defeat but you got one last chance to avoid it as he ...
Now this one is a little hard, certainly harder than the previous two. You are Black. Material is even but White has a much stronger pawn structure, and you have doubled f-pawns. Looking at the position further, you can see that your rook on e5 is...
You are playing as White. You are a full piece and two pawns down and your opponent is threatening a mate in 2. His position looks strong, and it is except for one major flaw. You have to use that flaw to checkmate him in four moves to turn a losi...
You are Black in this position. You are two pawns down, and your opponent is strongly placed. What do you do in this position?? You can mate in 3 by force. If you don't know the answer, see it down. &nbs...
A puzzle from a match that I played, try to solve it! Black to play and gain material
Black to move and draw
Here is a game from the 13é Open Internacional d'escacs "Ciutat de Balaguer", IM Sengupta - GM Burmakin with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw an interesting psychological battle. White started v...
Bobby Fischer scored his second consecutive victory in a hard fought Game 21 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Spassky employed a Sicilian Defense with the black pieces and Fischer answered with the main line variation (3.d4) for the first time in th...
With Winning Chess Openings, Yasser Seirawan’s writing style has much improved. In a previous article I mentioned that his pros are often a bit on the goofy side. This time around the syrup has taken a backseat to irreverence.&nb...
really hard
I hope you all enjoy this Puzzle i had to use help to find the solution
this is a king and 2 rook checkmate. it is very easy to do and i made it a puzzle for everyone on chess.com. &n...
The chigorin variation follows after the main line of the closed morphy, i.e. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 (d6 or 0-0) 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 [Usually the black side will play for d6 as after 7...0-0 a4, black will have t...
I thought a King and pawn would win against a King, but I couldnt find a way in this game. Did I do something wrong or, as a matter of principle, can a King successfully fend off a King and pawn? Any help gratefully recieved, thanks!
This extremely brilliant game shows Kotov in his element as he sacrifices his queen and proceeds on a king-hunt lasting nearly 20 moves. He demonstrates why it is never good to let your guard down. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS FROM THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF THE WO...
Boris Spassky won game 20 of his match against a seemingly passive Bobby Fischer. After letting Spassky off the hook in their previous game and settling for a draw, it was widely expected that Fischer would come out very aggressive in this g...
 So this famous game Tarrasch - Lasker was played almost exactly for 100 years ( august 1908 ) in my living town Duesseldorf (germany). It is the second game of the title match for worldchampionshp. Tarrasch, a very dogmatic chess player, had ch...
To get ready for next month's Staunton Memorial I present some games featuring the players in this year's event where I'll be arbiter and will post some reports. First up: Mickey Adams. Information about the event is at http://www.howa...
Chess is an interesting, but popular, and amusing board game. It is a well made one too. It involves kings, queens, pawns, bishops, castles, and knights. Some simple strategies are listed below: A king is at square D...
Episodes of "The Lone Ranger" would often end with someone saying, "Who was that masked man? He never told us his name." Another would answer with, "Why, he's the Lone Ranger." This would be followed by the Lone R...
