So Many Checkmates Possible
Captain Evans
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (1850-1908) was one of the greatest and most overlooked masters of all time. He challenged Steinitz to the world championship twice, in 1889 and 1892, but lost both times. Nevertheless, he was still one of the best playe...
A miraculous recovery
Like most chessplayers, sometimes I screw up badly in the opening. In the game that follows, I was playing at the NY Open in front of my friends and colleagues, and was embarrassed to fall into a simpe opening trap. I was too shocked to resign, so...
Sneaking into Spain with the St. George
I sometimes play the St. George Defense (1.e4 a6), famous from Tony Miles' upset of Anatoly Karpov. When I do, I often try to use the opening to reach positions from the Ruy Lopez, or close enough. It is an example of how an unorthodox opening...
The "Immortal game" puzzle
Here a nice chess puzzle from the immortal game between Anderssen en Kieseritzky. It was played in 1851 in London. The best example of sacrificing in chess
Using the opposition
White to play and win, and the rook may only move once.
Oh Nooo! and I don´t know!!
We all know the feeling... you make your move with the unpleasant sensation something is not quite right. You look again and you realise you just lost your queen! It happened to Karpov so don´t feel that bad, as you can see in move 29 of thi...
Ruy Lopez: Berlin Without the Wall
Ever since Vladimir Kramnik used the Berlin Defense against Garry Kasparov, players of the white pieces have been struggling to exploit their perceived advantage. The success of Black in defending and even winning at times, has led to the variatio...
Buddhism for chess players
(This article is from my new chess blog Chessedelic.com - mind boggling chess blogging...) Since the beginning of 2003 I'm taking an interest in (Tibetan) Buddhism.To me the beauty of Buddhism lies in the fact that one does not necessaril...
Lasker vs Alekhine - 1914
Today we bring you a game from the infamous St. Petersburg International Chess Tournament of 1914. Then world champion, Emanuel Lasker plays the young up and coming Russian player, Alexander Alekhine. Lasker was 45 years old at the time...
Misconceptions About Chess
from my new website, ChessUp.org. (www.chessup.org/) Some people have some crazy ideas in their heads about chess. Maybe even you have had some of these thoughts before. Here, I go over some of the most common misconceptions about chess...
Trash Talk
There comes times in my on-line chess challenges that I can not play like a monotonous, robot. That's when the trash talk comes out. Most of the time, it is just a friendly "You got destroyed" or "Were you playing with...
Eliminating the Opening
Here is a game from the 2008 National Open, GM Nakamura - NM Santalla with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw white employ a very interesting strategy in the beginning of the game. He chose to just play some very sl...
The Story of GM
This is the story of Govind Mohan Lal, affectionately known as 'GM'in the Chess Circuit! He had a bad day in the office and he was livid with himself. He had drawn his crucial 6th round game against his old foe that had pushed him into the...
You Just Gotta Believe
We've all dreamt of creating our own Mona Lisa, and GM Serper is no exception. Imagine sacrificing ALL 7 pieces of yours, while also queening two pawns, in the space of 48 moves! Then you'll be prepared for this game. By the way, this article put...
Develop all of your pieces
Much as been said about one of the rules of chess: "Develop all of your pieces as soon as possible" yet there are players who fail to do this and paid a proce too high. Below there are a couple of miniatures played by me that shows the p...
Slaying the Dragon (again....)
Alright, I admit that I'm not a great player but this game is the best that I've played so far. Of course I must also give credit to my opponent who gave me this opportunity for the combinations. This game was played quite some time ago...
how to study chess actually remember what you learned
phycologists have known for more than a century that your brain keeps more information longer if it has an opertunity to prossess what you have learned between training seccions the advantage of spread out learning are large and releable two studd...
Miniature Caro Kann Tactics
For the purposes of teaching chess to a group of young students, a short game is very useful. The particular game shown here appears to display opening theory since it doesn't go beyond the opening stage of the game. It is to be noted that the...
The Most Exciting Game of 2006 Explained (2nd Edition)
I'm certain most of you readers here would have lots of exciting chess games, whether it involves a dramatic greek gift sacrifice, or a brilliant zugwang in an endgame. However, have you ever played a game with such a massive attack ...
Attacking w/o the Queen
It always seems that whenever we lose our queen, our means to attack shut down, and none will succeed. But the truth is, some of the best attacks come with the queens gone and imagination at its highest rate. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS BY EDMAR MEDNIS.&nbs...
good puzzle
This is a puzzle that I found on youtube. You are not trying for mate. You are just trying to get into a position where you are definitely winning.
A cheap trick
This puzzle is a weird mysterious puzzle but find the best move!so good luck!!
Slow Playing the Sicilian
Here is a game from the XXI Magistral Ciudad de Leon, GM Ivanchuk - GM Shirov with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw white take a slower approach in meeting the Sicilian Defense starting with 3. Nc3 as opposed to 3...
