Welcome to the world of chess, by now I am sure you have expiranced hightened victories and sour defeats at the hands of many different people. Well I would rather not waste any more of your precious time so without further adue I introduce ...
Here is a game from the recent World Cup 2007. This game features an important opening novelty in the Ruy Lopez, Marshall Gambit line. Here is GM Shirov - GM Jakovenko with full annotations and commentary: This game illustrate...
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I was playing a game recently and was in what would be considered a losing position... I was down a pawn soon to be two, and my back rank was weak I only had one thing to offer so i tried it. Anyways here it is &n...
Responses to and by Rene Chun for her article to Bobby Fischer´s Pathetic Endgame Rene Chun's description of the decline into paranoi...
Methods A, B, C and D I wonder if it is true that doubt is the first step towards knowledge? It is logically assumed ...
Fischer's dominance of scholastic chess Bobby Fischer established his absolute dominance of scholastic chess in 1957 in the US Junior Champions...
I am writing this really just to talk about my experiances with chess. It's pretty much a biography, but an interesting story. To start, my love of chess didn't really catch on until I was 13. I knew how to play chess before then beca...
I have always wanted to create my own openings, but most of them are not vert succesful. A while ago, back when my rating hung around 1300, I developed what I called "Archer's Arm", mainly because it uses the bishop, which represents...
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In ordinary circumstances, the gain of time and superiority in development sufficiently influences the position to counterbalance the loss of material. General principles, however, do not apply to most specific positions, particulary those involvi...
After winning the world championship in 1972, Bobby Fischer became an American folk hero, like Daniel Boone or John Wayne. Bobby is tall and broad-shouldered; his face is clean-cut, masculine, attractive. but on second glance this impression dislo...
Unlike chess in parks, in coffee shops or in many clubs and adults tournaments across the United States the National Elementary Chess Championship ( consisting grades 4-6 ) is a well-organized and attractively staged event. Enthusiast in cities li...
By Jeff Sonas With Garry Kasparov announcing his retirement last month, it seems like an appropriate time to look back on his career and compare it with the careers of other all-time greats, to try to place him in some kind of historical context. ...
In P.1 we saw that Emanuel Lasker spent the most months at the top of the rating list, with Garry Kasparov second. And in terms of a single peak time, Wilhelm Steinitz had the largest gap ever between a #1 player and the rest of the world...
It can happen to any player without warning! All of a sudden you look at the game as if you have never played it before, you are unable to string together any form of cohesive check-mating attack, and even the most basic strategies and tacti...
My series of articles "Things to learn from a beginner " continue with the idea that you can easily improve your game. Sometimes in life, just by changing minor things it has a tremendous leverage effect on the results we try to ach...
In Part I we saw that Emanuel Lasker spent the longest amount of time at the top of the rating list in chess history, as well as the longest amount of time as world champion (unless it was Steinitz). We saw that Wilhelm Steinitz and Bobby...
I still remember the days of the World Championship match between Spassky and Fischer in 1972. I was a nine-year-old boy making the first steps in his chess career, back in peaceful Baku. I knew of course that Spassky, the reig...
In this game the great Petrosian conjures up threats against a queenside pawn. Pachman is busy defending that, when suddenly a queen sacrifice on the kingside ends the battle. EDIT: one more comment and I will get this article locked or deleted. ...
In the Hall of Columns, Anatoly Karpov and Gary Kasparov played on a stage flanked by two large display boards. Karpov wore a gray business suit; the challenger dressed more casually in a sports jacket and sweater. Sometimes Kasparov strolled the ...
Hangin weighs in on the 1975 Fischer vs. Karpov match 3/20/2005 - I saw an interesting video clip of Kasparov talking about the hypothetical 1975 world championship match between Fischer ...
