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...
Paul Morphy, the "Pride and Sorrow" of chess, gives us another outstanding performance in this game played in 1858. Al Horowitz considers this game in his "Golden Treasury of Chess" as "The most brilliant of Morphy&qu...
We all face lost positions, with seemingly no chance of saving the game. Therefore, why not counterattack? You have, of course, nothing to lose...
courtesy David Cordover, www.chesskids.com.au Life is a game of chess. It is a game of chess within a game of chess. Much like a Russian doll - with an infinite number of chess games built into each other. Each game you play is but a move ...
First, the preamble, in case you missed it from my last McChess article. At the moment, I run OS X and only OS X, so although Shredder Chess comes in Linux and Windows flavours, I won’t say much, if anything, about the alternativ...
In the following Ruy Lopez, Sidney Norman Bernstein of New York (1911-1992), author of "Combat: My 50 Years at the Chessboard" gives us a tasty demonstration of his amazing chess abilities. After move 16, he manages to separate...
Most everybody knows about the 4 move checkmate. But, many people don't. I have been playing chess for many years, and did not know it untill one month ago. Someone was tryng to pull it up on me...
October 10, 1992 Belgrade, Yugoslavia Bobby Fischer won his second consecutive game of match, prevailing against Boris Spassky’s Siciilian Defense in game 17 of their rematch for the world chess championship. Fischer had previou...
Whether you are a begginer or an intermediate player or an advanced player you will find this article very helpful in improving your chess skills and eventually becoming a master.... Chessvideos.tv Just type the following into your adr...
Few of us realize that one of the best weapons against an attack is to play for exchange of pieces. An attack flourishes on complications, on the efforts of powerfully posted pieces aimed at cramped positions. Every time you simplify, you remove a...
Here we see the great Anthony Miles unleashing a fantastic new novelty that put an end to the opening variation. After the devastating blow, Beliavsky never gets back to level terms. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS FROM THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF THE WORLD'S GREAT...
The blackmar diemer is one of the most interesting openings that I have ever seen. In the future I will post some of my games using this opening. Understand I am no expert in this opening. If you want to find out more simply sear...
Svetozar Gligoric was born in 1923 and became the greatest of all chess players born in Yugoslavia. He reached the position of being the highest rated player in Europe outside of the Soviet Union. In this game he plays a closed version of the Ruy ...
Isn’t it incredible how some games can be important for reasons that no-one but yourself can understand and appreciate. I had one such experience last night at our local club. I knew to expect a visitor from a neighbouring town, a man ...
Following on the heels of Winning Chess Tactics, Winning Chess Strategies is the third book in Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan’s seven book Winning Chess series.If you are going to play chess, ya gotta have a plan. Some would argue that ev...
Mikhail Tal is one of the best attacking players of all time. One of his best ever games was the one in which he played Black against Bukhuti Gurgenidze and won with a wonderful sacrifice.
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This is my favorite completed game. Leave comments about anything you want to reguarding the game
there is something strange about opening theory , maybe its due to lack of my knowledge (which is most probably the case) but at least its not found in many books about the subject..... now let me share my question with you in a usual ...
October 7, 1992 Belgrade, Yugoslavia After one loss and three draws since moving the match to Belgrade, Fischer picks up his first win in the Yugoslav capital. Spassky tried a relatively outdated opening in the Accelerated Averbakh At...
