In his 1995 book on the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Gary Lane asked "Do you relish the prospect of setting your opponent awkward problems from the start of the game?" And lot of times that's what you get when playing the BDG.You set your...
Victor Korchnoi (1931-) from Leningrad, learns to play chess at the tender age of seven. He competes against experienced Masters for the first time during the Leningrad Championship of 1950, he finish second. The characteristic features ...
Hope this helps any players with their chess games.
First of all, this article is intended for novice players who may have heard of the ruy lopez opnening but haven't studied it and understand it. People who have studied it should not bother reading it. This is an introduction to the Span...
The strategic masterpiece shows Schlechter at his best as he occupies some crucial dark squares, and utilizes them to achieve the final breakthrough.
First, there was the opening. The over-analysed beginning of the game. Here innovations are researched by masters, studied by experts and puzzled over by the rank amateur. The middlegame, the mystical ideal of complexity, the drama here is ...
Rusudan Goletiani was born in Georgia in 1980 and came to the United States in 2000. Rusa won the Soviet Junior Chess Championship for Girls Under 12 in 1990 at the age of nine. She then went on to win the World Chess Championship for Girls t...
A Four-week Chess Improvement Course with Micro-Drills The goal of this article is to greatly improve your Chess Vision: what you see in the first ten-second glance at the board. You will do this by repeating a set of micro-level exercis...
In this old-fashioned game, White has a seemingly unstoppable attack, only to find the tables are suddenly turned!
The trick of classical queen's gambit which was invented by Siegbert Tarrasch cost a knight for white, the trap was like this
Garin's match against Charlemagne, the queen sacrifice led an winning game to Garin, the game offers like this
shoot it
With all the pieces still on the board, Botvinnik makes a few deep moves-and the scene is transformed! It has become an endgame, with two passed pawns close to queening. With a journey by the king himself, this game is a complete delight.
Here is another miniature where Rudolf Charousek displays his brilliant chess ability. He loses his castling rights early, then he sacrifices two pieces. Black makes the fatal mistake of neglecting his Queen-side development. In order to ...
Many times in medieval history, in the midst of battle, a king enters the fray to rally his troops and win a victory against a difficult opponent. In chess, can the king function in this role? Of course, in the endgame, the king has to be agg...
The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit is an aggressive opening for White where White sacrifices a centre pawn (e-pawn) to open lines for attack with rapid development of his pieces. For the pawn Black trades off tempi as he breaks one of the principles in th...
Here is a game from the 2008 Sydney International Open, GM Jones - IM Bitansky with full annotations and commentary: This was a very interesting game where we saw both players castling their kings to opposite sides of the boar...
An amazing game between 10-years-old Joshua Waitzkin and IM Edvard Frumkin Good job Mr.Waitzkin! Almost everyone knew Josh after this game and he become more and more popular.
Here is my own Satire of Satires, an homage to Ambrose Bierce's brilliant work, The Devil's Dictionary which contained comical (and cynical) definitions of commonplace words. Analysis- A language with no known native speakers....
This delightful game is instructive in many ways. It includes a knight sacrifice to win a pawn, a quick transition to a rook endgame, and the win in combinative style.
There are a lots of interesting books with a simple title: 1. Play 1 e4! There is no doubt that playing the Open Games 1 e4 is one of White's most aggressive ways of playing to win.. in fact there are lots of opening traps after 1.e4...
