Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (1908-1983) was one of Czechoslovakia's greatest chess players ever. He established himself as a legend during the Olympiads of the 1930s. His tournament record was impressive, with his tactical skill ...
This is an example of a check mate in the opening which is quite strange....i was playing against a club player and i was with the white pieces...
Dear ladies and gents, The first formal test of the Dragon system was in Germany, 1887 Tarrasch lost a whole piece there!
Today I'd like to discuss a maneuver I do often in my caro-kann chess games. It takes place in the exchange variation of the caro-kann. I learned of this maneuver when talking to some random person on a chess server many years ago....
The following Giuoco Piano is from the book "How to Win in the Chess Openings" by I A Horowitz. It is an awesome game and I wanted to post it. Unfortunately, the names of the players are unknown, so is the time it was...
The longer I have played on this site, the more I have become aware of my opponents' moves. Sometimes it will just seem like somebody is giving up a piece for no reason, but when that happens, you have to ask yourself, "...
What can I say after playing my first 50 games? Like many people I learn chess from a Parent and mostly played my siblings and the odd game here and there with friends and on computer software. I could always handle myself w...
Israel Albert Horowitz (1907-1973), better known as I A Horowitz, was a Jewish-American International Master, a Grandmaster by today's standards, but he never got the title. Horowitz won the US Open Championship in 1936, 1938 and 1943. He is the m...
Sometimes your opponent doesn't castle. How do you take advantage? A typical plan is to attack on the e-file, and these are some wonderful annotated examples. We can't all attack like Steinitz, but if we're ...
One of the greatbenefits of being a grandmaster is that it allows me to really appreciate how hard it is to be good at anything. The field may vary: sports, entertainment, law, medicine, farming, pottery. Whatever the endeavor, the top performers ...
The following game ilustrates what poor development can do to a chess player. I played Black against Michael189, a very good player and a good friend of mine. White sacrificed a Knight early in the game for no apparent reason, then he ha...
Here is a game I played a while back, it is one of my favorites because I sacrificed three pieces and won nicely. First, I sacrificed a Bishop to get my Rook into play, then followed a Knight, lastly, I sacrificed my Rook. My eager and younge...
In 1920, Richard Reti (1889-1929), one of the top players in the world at the time, played a match against future World Champion Max Euwe (1901-1981). The result was 5-3 with four draws in Reti's favor. The game below is fr...
Their shortest game and a dazzling tactical battle, annotated. Morphy said to me, "I have a positive chess fever coming over me. Give me the board and the pieces and I'll show you some of Anderssen's games." And with ast...
I want to start playing chess, i guess you can say, professionally. How do I obtain a USCF rating or what do i need to do to start playing professionally.
This game was played in 1844 between Hoffman and Petroff, both Grandmasters of the era. Black's idea of surrendering his Queen to bind the enemy King with the lesser pieces is a true triumph of mind over matter.
At the Candidates Tournament in Curacao in 1962, which resulted in a victory for Tigran Petrosian, there was no rivalry as intense as the competition between America's pretty boy Bobby Fischer and the Hungarian Grandmaster ...
The king's gambit accepted is a wonderful opening which was most popular in the early 1850s... a very early attack by white, this move gives white a great tempo on taking control over the weak f7 pawn. However, this opening can be countered by...
This classic swindle involving greed, notorious for the blunders from both sides, occurred in an offhand game played at St. Petersburg in 1900. Master of attack Mikhail Tchigorin, commonly known as the first Russian Grandmaster, is playing Wh...
White to mate in three If you have any feedback, feel free to share:)
This article is intended for relatively new players and maybe a few intermediate players as well. The goal here is to emphasize checkmate when you have a one-piece advantage over your opponent, who only has their king remaining. This article will ...
What is a brilliancy? a spectacular Queen sacrifice? a game full of masterly maneuvers? That's the question. Many Brilliancy Awards of the past are known to be full of arguments, errors and disagreements. The "standards" for a b...
