David Bronstein (1924-2006) was one of the best four players in the world from 1948 to 1958. He was one of the youngest Soviet players to be awarded the national master title. He was the winner of the first, and perhaps strongest, Inte...
One concept that recently crossed my mind was how players can employ two seemingly unimportant pieces together to create a mind-blowing win. Below I have a diagram of a hypothetical game (this almost happened to me, but I caught...
I came across this game and I wanted to share it for your enjoyment. It was played in East Germany in 1963; the game features a nice Kinghunt. Black gives pieces away to get the White King out of his comfort zone, then he ...
Black wins in three. See if you can figure it out; it shouldn't be overwhelmingly hard.
White can get mate in 2 moves if makes the wrong moves. See the game viewer:
In 1960, Fischer suffered a famous loss against Boris Spasskys King's gambit. Bobby would later write an article entitled "A Bust to the King's Gambit". In 1963, during the US Championship, Fischer played a less popular vari...
Here is another brain teaser. Although these situations rarely come up in real games--or do they? It could be just that no one bothers to look hard enough or analyze after the fact--they are nevertheless great tools to improve one's game, espe...
It's rare to see four queens on the board at once and remain on the board until the game is over. But that's what happened in this French Defense game where International Master Bernard Zuckerman lost to National Master Louis Levy in...
It seems to me as though playing chess is like a lot of things, it contains options to a point. Winning is very difficult and requires the correct atmosphere and endless patience with unforced errors and such like. Of course the opening is very im...
Hi there, I'm a new member, just joined today (Oct. 10th 2007) and I thought that I would submit a fun puzzle I came across in Polgar's massive book of puzzles. I won't say any more about the puzzle because as soon as I give one h...
the main feature of this game is the simultaneous attack of both sides on the f7 and f2 squares, the werakest square on each side.
When I was in college the first time back in 1980, I was the president of Chess club at Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario Oregon. That doesn't mean I was the best player by any means, just that I had a love for this wonderful game. ...
In many of the games of chess that I have played, the ones where the opponent cannot see your true intentions are among the best and most satisfying. I remember playing one game against a fairly equal opponent. My queen was hidi...
John Peters was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 10, 1951. He was champion of New England in 1971, 1974, and 1975. He was a USCF life master at the age of 22. He was Massachusetts State Champion in 1974 and 1975 ...
A fascinating and instructive endgame. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have, and that it teaches you something. Feel free to ask if you have any questions!
Recently, i've stumbled upon a variation of chess called bughouse chess in my local chess club. I've tried out a couple of games and i have to say, i havn't been disappointed. In case your wondering waht bughouse chess is, well ...
I think i waited enough for writing an analysis for my little question.This endgame wasn't an easy one,but an instructive one about bishops i think.Yes,again we have the NA...
Shogi, or Japanese chess, is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan. Objective Technically the game is won when a king is captured, though in practice defeat is conceded at mate or when mate becomes inevitable. [edit] Ga...
In 1914, Jose Capablanca travelled to South America for several exhibition games. In Buenos Aires, he played the best chess players in the city and won all his games. Here is a charming miniature in which Capa played the Four Knights D...
A lot of begginer players like to open in an opening that is called The Terrorist Attack. The Terrorist Attack is: ...
Now we are coming to an another exciting endgame position where only one move can destroy a beautiful win for white.It is hard to see sometimes but understa...
French opening is an opening that black choose, for an answer to the white famous 1.e4. The french opening works on solid position for lack of flexibility.The opening is 1. ... e6 2. d4 (usualy) d5 (The strong point of the opening). At this ...
