During the Moscow International Tournament of 1925, chess fans all over the world follow with unflagging attention the battles taking place on the boards. The name of World Champion Jose Raoul Capablanca is prominent in the newspapers. It is at th...
Here is a game from the 2008 Reykjavik Open, GM Hao Wang - FM Dagur Arngrimsson with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw white take on a nice, simple, and effective kingside attack in the Ruy Lopez for which b...
This is from Nun's computer test sets. Set up the position below and see how long it takes for your computer to solve it. The humans seem to be able to smell a stinker instantly even if we can't see it to the very end. If your computer can...
Perhaps “weird” isn’t the right term, but it is definitely an extremely complicated attack. The Max Lange isn’t too popular these days, but if you look at Hans Fahrni’s way of playing it in 1914 it is worth a seco...
It had been a bad night for Fred, mostly of his own making; but having an man point a gun at him really put things over the top. He'd spent most of the past hour playing for a win in a R+B vs. R endgame (ultimate...
1.) A group of chess enthusiasts had checked into a hotel, and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as t...
Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934), a Jewish and a patriotic German, was one of the strongest chess players and the most influential chess teacher of the late 19th century and early 20th century. He was a medical doctor by profession and...
I started playing chess since i was 6 years old. I played until I was 12 mostly with relatives and ocasionally with the few friends I have who play the game. Anyway, I entered a chess tournament my high school organized and ended up in third...
Jonathan Levitt, (Grandmaster), created what I believe is one of the most effective yet simple, "self-tests" to determine chess aptitude. This article describes the test. He talks about this test in his in his book, "Genius in Chess...
If chess be the food of love, play on Yelena Dembo! Yelena's gifts are on full display in this chess.com game against Richard Hayden, hardly a slouch at 2130. One day, when all the stars are in alignment, even I might be able to try give her a...
George Hatfeild Gossip (1841-1907), was the winner of the Correspondence Tournament of the Chess Players Chronicle in 1873-1874. He played the following game during the Sixth American Chess Congress of 1889 in New York. Many believe the ...
The Sicilian is by far the most popular defence to 1.e4, because it is an ideal weapon for players wishing to go for the full point as Black. It provides resources for active and very tactical play while at the same time avoiding the sym...
Here I will try to sketch Black's possible answers to 1.e4 excluding 1...e5. There are a number of very suitable defences: By far the most popular is the Sicilian (1.e4 c5), to which I will devote another full post. At this place it is su...
Hi everybody, having given an overview over meeting both 1.d4 and 1.c4, I can't resist the temptation of trying to characterize the possible answers to 1.e4 as well. I trust that most of you already have a reliable defence against this, b...
This post was originally part of an earlier thread in another forum. I have reposted its main body so as to make it accessible more easily according to the other "Meeting..." articles I have created. Here we go: First of all a word...
As I obviously don't play all of the systems I'm going to mention, please comment on that list, correct me where you believe me to be wrong and give your own opinions about systems you are familiar with! 1.d4 tends to lead to less ...
Hi everybody, being a member of the All Nations Chess League (located on www.playchess.com), I used our team forum to post a few brief overviews of the most common chess openings last year. My intention was not to give a fully detailed rev...
Many consider Emanuel Lasker to be the greatest chess player in modern times. Certainly no man has held the world championship longer - 28 years or kept his powers so long. In Lasker's "Manual of Chess" He reveals his vast knowledge....
Here is a game from the 2008 Linares tournament, GM Leko - GM Ivanchuk with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw that black played the Caro-Kann to combat 1. e4 where black establishes a pawn on d5 early in the...
The Plachutta is a device found in chess problems. A piece sacrifices itself on a square where it could be captured by one of two similarly-moving pieces for example, a bishop and a queen moving along a diagonal, or two rooks moving along a differ...
International Master Rodolfo Tan Cardoso of the Philippines was its first International Master. He was the only Filipino to win over the late former World Champion Robert Fischer; in their 1957 match in New York. He has retired in the 1970&#...
Please excuse my poor annotations. Alot of the moves im not too sure whats going on, and have kind of stated the obvious. But anyway, the game is still great.
The great chess genius Alexander Alekhine played many great games during his life, but some of them stand out. The games of his that illustrate the theme "mind over matter" are especially pretty. Here are two examples. &nb...
