PLAY 1.e4!
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...
"Advanced Tactics"
Yesterday's puzzle (March, 29th, titled "Advanced Tactics") was very interesting, and I posted quite a long text about it. As it is somewhere in the middle of several pages of posts, I suspect it won't be read much. Therefore I w...
A Charousek Gem
Rudolf Rezso Charousek (1873-1900), was a Hungarian-Jewish chess player. He learns to play chess in his early teenage years, and his international debut comes at the Nuremberg Tournament of 1896. He doesn't win any prize but he defea...
Too Many Pawn Moves
Yefim Geller
"What about White's combinations? Has White weighed all the factors in his swift attack against the enemy King? At one time nearly all of White's pieces are in danger, and should he not take this into account and strenghten his defens...
An Amazing Queen Sacrifice
There is no moment in chess that is more magical than the queen sacrifice, especially when it leads to checkmate.Although it might seem that opportunities for such sacrifices occur more often in games among lower-ranked players because of their sh...
Two Forks
THE HIPPO
THE WEIRDEST DEFENCE EVER!!!!
THE HIPPO
THE WEIRDEST DEFENCE EVER!!!!
Magnus Carlsen vs Jan Svindahl
In this game Magnus Carlsen played white and lost to a Fianchetto variation stratagy, while he was using the English Opening: Symetrical. Magnus played this game when he was 10, so some of the moves weren't all that smart. But he was still a c...
The first win
This game was Magnus Carlsen's first win against a NM, National Master. He played this game when he was only ten years old. He used the English Opening and his opponent used the Three Knights System General.
Nicky Nip: Master at 9!
Nicky Nip of San Francisco is America's youngest master ever, still just 9 years old (the picture is from 2006). He earned the title in torunaments and matches such as the one in December where he beat me 4-2. He has a FIDE rating over 2...
The Passed Pawn
In this entertaining game, Rubinstein sacrifices his queen early on-for the sake for winning a pawn. But he hastens to return it in order to go into a rook ending with an advantage, which he nicely converts.
New Capablanca Series
I am going to be posting a series of games by Jose Raul Capablanca. He is, in my oppinion, the greatest player ever to live. They will be played in chronological order. The following game, however, is not in chronological order, but it is my ...
Schlechter's Immortal
Carl Schlecter (1874-1918) was a leading Austrian Chess Master at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known as the first player in sixteen years who was a serious threat to claim Emanuel Lasker's World Title (the match ended in ...
Can it get any more simple?
This is the second game in the Magnus Carlsen series. Magnus didn't have a good opening and due to him using classic chess stratagies, it caused him to lose this game. White used the Silician Dragon to win this game.
A hungarian game from 2003
As stated in title, two hungarian players were fighting during the CAP D'AGDE in 2003, which was an unofficial rapid world championship. The world's best 12 players were invited to take participation, and 11 of them accepted the invitation...
Sacrifice for the Attack
Igor Bondarevsky (1913-1979) comes into prominence in 1936 when he finish on top in a Russian tournament of first-category players, winning a number of games in splendid combinational style. After this victory he is invited to enter the 10th Russi...
Nakamura's hard-to-catch King
Here is one amazing game played by Hikaru Nakamura. He managed to move his King in the middlegame all the way to h7 and the black pieces can't catch him!.
Karsten Ovesen vs Magnus Carlsen
This was the first game in the Magnus Carlsen series I am posting. This game was Magnus's first international game, so that's why Magnus got badly defeated. His openent used the Torre Attack...
Spectacular Queen Sacrifice
Here is a game from the 2008 Amber Rapid tournament, GM Ivanchuk - GM Karjakin with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw Ivanchuk play the spectacular queen sacrifice 14. Qxe6+ in this highly theoretical posito...
Garry Kasparov vs Shohrat Muratkuliev
This was one of Kasparov's first games. The tournament that he was particapating in was the Baku tt U18 at Baku AZE. The game was Garry Kasparov vs Shohrat Muratkuliev. Kasparov won because of resignation although he wasn't clearly winning...
Treasure Chess - A Review
When an author, under the Acknowledgment section writes, "For a book like Treasure Chess it is not easy to cite where all my references and impressions came from, so I'm not even going to try," I became intuitively doubtful that ...
Smyslov and the French Defense
Vasily Smyslov, outstanding member of the Soviet School comes to the world in 1921. He learns the game of Chess when he is still a child, his first teacher is his father, an engineer who works at the Moscow Motor Works. When it...
