Vasily Smyslov was born in Moscow, Russia in 1921. He learned to play chess at the age of 6 and became one of the greatest players of all time. Beside playing chess, Smyslov was also an accomplished opera singer. He became Worl...
Memo To The Gods: Never Come Back The return of Bobby Fischer, the biggest comeback since Napoleon sailed a single-masted flat-bottom out of Elba (on his way, mind you, to Waterloo), has been widely noted but quite misun...
All The Right Moves Bobby Fischer reignites the world of chess There were physical changes caused by the passage of time, but chess master Bobby Fischer behaved much as he had during his earlier period of fame. Be...
Who is Bobby Fischer? Bobby Fischer, at the age of sixteen, was a world chess champion with an IQ of 180 and an astonishing memory! Half-Jewish, half non-Jewish, he is one of the greatest American chess players of all time. He is mysterious an...
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This was taken from the last round of the great 1895 Hastings tournament. Here the then-unknown Pillsbury needed a win to take undivided first place...
Six moves toward a world championship Bobby Fischer transformed a routine elimination match into high drama with an astonishing string of victories that alarmed his rivals and forced Soviet experts to revise their assessmen...
A Fischer Prank After the collapse of the Soviet Union many of their stars settled in other countries. Edward Gufeld, now 66, is a colorful ...
Bobby Fischer: Demise of a chess legend Bobby Fischer's paranoia, obsessive behaviour and outrageous public statements have all bu...
Department of the Treasury letter to Bobby Fischer Department of the Treasury Washington Aug 21, 1992 Order to Provide Information and Cease and Desist Activities FAC No. 129405 Dear Mr Fischer: It has come to our attention that...
The Fischer King In the surreal setting of war-torn Yugoslavia, reclusive chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer emerged to meet Boris Spassky. At about 3:30 PM on Sept. 2, Bobby Fischer shook hands wi...
Free Chess Openings Videos, Click Here Chess Openings Category – Semi Closed Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 d4 f5 ECO Codes – A80 to A99 This opening was advocated in a book published in 1789 in The Hagu...
Free Chess Openings Videos, Click Here Chess Openings Category – Semi Closed Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 d4 Nf6, 2 c4 g6 ECO Codes – E60 to E99 Like in other hypermodern openings, in King's Indian ...
Free Chess Openings Videos, Click Here Chess Openings Category – Semi Closed Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 d5 ECO Codes – D70 to D99 Grünfeld Defense is named after the player Ernst ...
Free Chess Openings Videos, Click Here Chess Openings Category – Semi Closed Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 d4 Nf6, 2 c4 e6, 3 g3 d5, 4 Bg2 ECO Codes – E01 to E09 Catalan Opening was first used in a master tou...
Free Chess Openings Videos, Click Here Chess Openings Category – Semi Closed Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 d4 Nf6, 2 c4 e6, 3 Nf3 b6 ECO Codes – E12 to E19 Queen's Indian Defense is usually played to avoi...
Category – Semi Closed Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 d4 Nf6, 2 c4 e6, 3 Nc3 Bb4 ECO Codes – E20 to E59 This is an opening played under hypermodern theory, where the White center, while not contested by pa...
Category – Semi Closed Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 c5 3 d5 b5 ECO Codes – A57 to A59 Also called the Volga Gambit, especially in Russia, Benko Gambit is named after Huagarain Grandmaster Pal Be...
Category – Semi Closed Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 d4 Nf6, 2 c4 c5, 3 d5 or 1 d4 c4, 2 d5 ECO Codes – A43 to A44 and A56 to A79 Benoni Defense was first documented by Aaron Reinganum in a nineteenth centur...
Category – Flank Opening Opening Move Sequence – 1 b3 ECO Codes – A01 This opening is named after the Danish player Bent Larsen. The Larsen's Opening is also called Queen's Fianc...
Free Chess Openings Videos Here: Chess Openings History shows us that chess players first started analyzing openings in the 1400s, and possibly earlier. A lot of openings were named after countries or people, and most openings have a term attach...
Responses to and by Rene Chun for her article Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame Rene Chun's description of the decline into paranoia (whether clinical or not) of Bobby Fischer ("Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame," December Atlantic) offers a dee...
Fish to Fischer Back in those years, it seemed, just about everything was strange; the craziness of Woodstock, the crazierness of Vietnam, and just plain life. It was, I believe, 1970, and I was a college student ...
