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...
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Best Response(s) - There are quite a few similar choices here. White develops a piece himself whilst defending his pawn at the same time. As troops are mustered into battle each ...
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 Best Response(s) - Several. Black develops a piece. The game has the makings of a highly tactical one but there is really nothing to say. I will post move 5 imm...
Here is a game for you sacrifice lovers to enjoy. White makes one sacrifice after another to have the enemy King exactly where he wants him. Notice the brilliant 19.Bg6+, a move combined with confident and bad intentions, after which, Black can pr...
Emanuel Lasker and Alexander Alekhine met eight times in their career. Seven of the games were from tournament games. Their first game was considered an exhibition game. Lasker and Alekhine first met in an exhibition ...
While looking through the "Endgame Articles" section, I noticed that there were no articles on the topic of fortresses. As I a fan of using fortresses, and they are relatively unheard of, I decided to write an article explaining them. A...
Hello everyone. I just got back from my one-week trip to the Florida Keys, which explains my long absence. I hope nobody got too worried... NOTE: ANNOTATIONS AND TITLE BY IRVING CHERNEV.
The Flea House designated the Chess and Checker Club of New York, which was located on 42nd Street near Times Square. It was a place where players could come and play chess, checkers, Russian checkers, Spanish checkers, dominoes, go, backgam...
Here's a game which I won recently at the Durham Chess Congress. I scored 3/5 in my category: not too bad for my first tournament, but I lost at least one game which I should have won. I needed to win both my games on the last day to get the &...
Coach Leopold’s Chess Playing Guide Opening Play: 3 Goals 1. Develop Pieces 2. Castle your King 3. Control the Centre &...
Edward (Eduard) Lasker was born in Kempen, Poland (near Breslau and part of the German Empire at the time) Germany on December 3, 1885. He learned chess at the age of 6 from his father. He earned degrees at the University of Berlin in mechanical...
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxe4 Best Response(s) - Many, several just end up transposing anyways. White is certainly in no mood to offer gambits and the like. Each opponent is looking to blow their rival off the boa...
Chess is a game of endless proportion. We love this ancient game, because it goes on, and on, and it never bores us. The possibilities on the chess board are positively endless. Why, after just four moves into the game, the combination of po...
David Bronstein was born in 1924. He was a master at age 16 and was playing in the USSR championship semilfinals at age 17. In 1941, the USSR semifinals was held in Rostov. Bronstein was 17 when he played in it, defeating veteran...
Ngoc Truongson Nguyen ('Son', born Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, February 23, 1990) is the top Vietnamese chess player. Son started playing chess at the age of four, and he competed in the National Junior Chess Tournament before he w...
Forgive the delay, I've been swamped. 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 Correct Response(s) - Nxd4 is objectively best. c3 is not particularly unusual. Pawns are traded, the position is opened a little, and the tension g...
We saw in the previous article the main line of the closed variation of the Morphy defence (3..a6), and the advantages and disadvantages, we also briefly discussed why white generally prefers to play the prophylactic 9.h3 instead of the imme...
Here is a game from the 16th Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament, GM Timman - GM Hillarp Persson with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw black play the very common and thematic exchange sacrifice in the Sicilian with ...
This is a game I played on chess.com, and it is the first one i have ever posted. Maybe some of you can comment it. Give some tips or whatever? thanx
Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946), became the fourth World Champion after defeating the invincible Jose Raul Capablanca in 1927. The result of this match surprised almost everyone since Capablanca was the widely favorite to win (Alekhi...
Arturo Pomar-Salamanca was born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on September 1, 1931. He was a child prodigy, learning the game at age 4, and pupil of Alexander Alekhine during World War II (Franco’s regime in Spain paid Alekhine to...
Georg Marco was born in what is today Cernauti, Ukraine in 1863, and was raised in Romania. He was a medical student before he gave that up to become a journalist and professional chess player. He moved to Vienna from Romanai in the 18...
Edmar (Edmars) John Mednis was born on March 22, 1937 in Riga, Latvia. He and his family escaped from Latvia in 1944. They lived in several displaced camps in Germany before coming to the United States in 1950. In 1949, at ...
