I made a tournament called, 1st Bangladeshi Knockout. I was expecting for only Bangladeshis to join it, but no one from Bangladesh joined and peoples from other countries joined.It was really unexpected.Don't you think? And please give me some...
The USSR won this match by a narrow margin. On the top board world champion Spassky demolished Bent Larsen in a delightful miniature. White's king is a sitting duck with four of his pieces out of action on the queenside.
Here is a game from the 2008 US Championship Women's section, WIM Epstein - WIM Tuvshintugs with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw white choose the Ponziani Opening starting with 3. c3 which led to a ver...
I want to earn some money to pay for my chess school. I want to do it in the way of chessplayer earning this money giving myself chess lessons. I will teach how to improve your chess, starting to fight for something during tournaments o...
This text is translated from Dutch to English. Correct me on my mistakes if u see some please, thanks. The openings that i am going to give a look at are all played regularly at all levels. Its important you can recognize them a...
Mark Taimanov was born in the Ukraine in 1926. In 1952, he became a Grandmaster. He was also a concert pianist. In 1970, he was accused of buying a point from Matulovic for $400 at the Palma de Mallorca Interzonal in 1970. ...
This game is one of the most famous from the McDonnell-Labourdonnais matches. Labourdonnais sets up a powerful pawn center and marches down to queen in a way that would have made Philidor proud. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS FROM THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF THE WORLD...
Below is a good opening. In chess, the English Opening is the opening where White plays 1. c4A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular opening. White begins the fight for the center by staking a claim to the d5 square. Although many lines of ...
Here is one of many fantasic openings....... The Fried Liver Attack, also called the Fegatello Attack (named for an Italian idiom meaning "dead as a piece of liver"), is a chess opening. This colourfully named opening is a variation of t...
Fridrik Olafsson was born in Reykjavik in 1935. In 1952, at the age of 17, he was Icelandic Champion. In 1953, he took 3rd place in the World Junior Championship. He was Iceland's first Grandmaster (1958) and the fourth FI...
I have noticed that computers will not let you do the move, En passant. It is a very rare move an that is probably why you can not do it. In the picture to the right, the pawn on e4 would move to d5 and take the pawn on e5.
Anderssen's Mate This checkmate occurs from a corner square with a Rook or a Queen, defended and protected by a pawn or a Bishop in the long diagonal which includes the corner square. The opposing King is checkmated at the s...
Rook, knight and pawn Mate Usually seen in endgames, this mate "is extremely useful to know." The combination of a Rook, Knight, and a pawn often proves to be a very potent fighting unit against an opposing King in an endga...
I have played many defenses against 1.e4. Despite that I became known as a player of the Caro Kann. Perhaps, wearing a tee shirt that said, "UNIVERSITY OF CARO" on the front helped to promote that notion. The back said, LINA," compl...
Anastasia's Mate Part 2: Since the previous article about the Anastasia's Mate became to long, i am going to post the game (analysed) here. Enjoi ... And a little puzzl...
Pillsbury's Mate Pillsbury's Mate.Pillsbury's Mate is a variation of Morphy's Mate*1, but the Rook delivers checkmate while the Bishop prevents the opposing King from fleeing to the corner square. Below is an ex...
This is called quality game here in our place. Which the higher rating play w/out 1 rook and the lower rating play w/out 1 bishop. . Can you help me for this? I play this quality game w/ my friend which has a higher rating than me. So i play w/out...
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I played a game once on chess.com, and on looking back at it, I realized that it is very constructive, as it illustrates many of the basic tactics and principles of chess, including skewers, forks, double checks, development, fianchettoes, pawn ho...
Awesome opening: That is the main line. Bxf7 on white last move is better option Paul Morphy Gambit:
Veniamin Sozin (1896-1956) was a strong Soviet master. He played in several USSR championships. He was also an opening expert. The Sozin Attack in the Sicilian was analyzed and played by him in the 1920s and became popular in the...
Réti's Mate (My favourite) This checkmate came from Réti-Tartakower, Vienna 1910, and involves White dropping an early checkmate on Black's uncastled King at c7 by White's Queen Bishop at d7 defended ...
Epaulette Mate Epaulette Mate. This mate occurs when the opposing King is sandwiched in between two pieces on the back rank with the Queen delivering mate from the opposing player's third rank...
Overloading is when a piece is assigned to protect two or more other pieces, squares or threats at the same time. In situations like this opportunities often arise to benefit from the overloading by distracting the piece from one or several of its...
