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...
Scholars mate (for interested people and also called the blitzcraig): 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 (Bc4, doesnt matter) Nc6 3.Bc4 (Qh5) Nf6 4. Qxf7#
This is the first part of a couple of articles where i am gonna talk about mating patterns, each article will contain one mating pattern. The mating pattern now?Gueridon's Mate! Gueridon's Mate This mating pattern and ...
In 1957, Alex Bernstein created the first really complete chess program at IBM. It ran on an IBM 704, one of the last vacuum tube computers. It took about 8 minutes to make a move. In 1958, Alan Newell, John Shaw, ...
this was an improvised opening i played as white against a player about my rating. it looks like a kings indian, but i haven't seen it before. does anyone know if it has a name, and if it doesn't, can i name it? &...
Here is a game from the 2008 Limburg Open, IM Swinkels - GM Berg with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw a battle of structure versus open lines. Black decided early to go for the doubling of white's pawn...
This is one game I played 2 weeks ago in an important tournament in Italy that I won!! 6\7 points!
The Morra or Smith-Morra Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4) is an interesting gambit in the Sicilian Defense. I co-wrote two books on the Smith-Morra with Ken Smith a few years ago and collected as many examples of the Smith-Morra Accepted and the S...
The year was 1968. I heard the book would be available in America. The place to obtain it was at 80 East 11th Street in New York City. The United States Chess Federation had been at home there for a few years. In the same building, on another floo...
rules: every white move must be a capture and mate must be 3 moves or less.
What a impossible WIN made by me last week in a tournament!although i made some mistake early,but fortunately my opponent made just a big mistake and straight give me just a opportunity to win!everyone can give me some suggest or comments to me,Th...
Most likely the most famous miniature of all time. The finale is striking and elegant.
white is to play and force mate in 3. all of white's moves must be a capture.
i had a game last month with one of the coaches of chess.com ....... was pretty good one...but i was expecting more from a coach
Watch Tarrasch's knight in this game as it leaps around the board, forcing a weary Black to resign. NOTE: ANNOTATIONS AND TITLE BY IRVING CHERNEV.
The Sicillian narjarf is my fav opening. It goes E4-C5 Nf3-D6 D4-CxD4 Nf3xD4-Nf6 NC3-A6 This is a very solid position for black. Black's whole game revolves around the b7 pawn which will be advanced to B5 later. Kasparov and Fischer both used ...
In this article I present three magnificent examples of advanced rook play. As John Watson pointed out in his brilliant Secrets of Chess Strategy, use of rooks has evolved considerably, and Karpov demonstrates this perfectly in his game against Ho...
Here is a game from the 2008 US Senior Open, IM Kaufman - IM Foygel with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw black play some slow opening moves which allowed white to take a lead in development. Then white was...
Reuben Fine was born in New York City on October 11, 1914. He learned to play chess from his uncle in 1923 at the age of 8. He began tournament level chess at the Marshall Chess Club. He won the 15th Marshall Chess Club Ch...
In this game black was Steinz William,the first world chess champion. He did a amazing Queen sacrafice in this game. Enjoy it!
PLEASE help me.What should I do as white?I thought about whites move for weeks but I couldn't find a solution.
Rudolf Spielmann was born in Vienna on May 5, 1883. He was a Viennese professional chess player who spent most of his adult life in Germany. He played over 100 tournaments and 55 matches in his career. He earned the nickna...
The first United States Chess Federation (USCF) National Rating List was published in Chess Life magazine on November 20, 1950. The first list had nine classifications and rated 2,306 players. A Grandmaster was anyone with a rat...
