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 ...
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First of all, I would like to thank Chessmaster 10th Edition for the info on the game. This is one of Gioachino Greco's best game. Who is Gioahino Greco? He is one of the first Grandmasters. Greco is credited for developing some gambits and pu...
Here, two young amateurs were playing in a tournament creating the shortest game ever recorded! The players, who's identities have been lost, were familiar with chess rules and had Elo ratings of 1600 and 1700. PLEASE READ THE MOVE L...
Selon Ziatdinov une méthode efficace pour améliorer son « niveau tactique » est de jouer des parties rapides. "Par rapide j’entends une, deux ou trois minutes maximum (G/1 – G/2 – G/3)…plus d...
Chess is a game of mystery to the many people who don’t know its rules. Often even the most intelligent will remark that they don’t really know how it’s played, or never really understood it. For them the existence of a chess boa...
This position by Kopaev is practical and instructive. If your goal is to be a strong tournament player, this is a great position to understand. You've seen the moves, but perhaps the reasons for them are not so obvious. Read on, and I will e...
This is a game i played in the tournament when i was trying out the sicilian and i almost always had the same opening 6 moves, it was a blitz game so there were a couple of mistakes and blunders(same thing)but i find that an opening like that lead...
Reuben Fine (1914-1993), an American grandmaster, was among the top eight players in the world from the 1930s to early 1950s. Despite all his chess success, he never won the U.S. Championship and only one New York State Championship (1941).&...
(This story was written for the U3A Nepean web site. U3A is the “University of the Third Age”. If you don't know what that is, you can learn about it here: http://www.u3anepean.org ) We've all heard the old saw that t...
Now the time is right for a good solution.If you didn't read the astonishing endgame please read it than come here.In every game there you can see lots of moves ea...
Thirty years ago a picture hung in the Sydney Chess Centre. It showed two chess players—one looking bored, the other indecisive. He had picked up a pawn to make his first move but had taken so long that a spider web extended from...
'The pawns are the soul of chess.'This is the bitter truth for all players in the world.A man who seeks mastery at chess must learn how to use these simple units of chess.I myself lost a lot...
The endgame is a really beautiful world and his problems even more beautiful than it i want to share a really good example white to move and draw.Actually if you are a chess life r...
Chess notation is a great device that gives us a unique opportunity for time travel.We can enjoy old good times' chess games.I want to share one of the good games in the history.This gamewas played at Rome a...
Finding a solution to this trap is easy.You can refute the plan by just taking knight.Also taking f7 with bishop has unique variations.But i prefer taking knight safe and gives black a good game.
This may look like a strange game that black plays.... A good vs a Bad.
"Nous n'avons pas d'idée à propos de la nature "réelle" des choses, et cela ne nous intéresse pas particulièrement. La fonction d'un modèle est d'arriver à une de...
What is your first move for white? C4,D4,or E4? If you are a person that loves to play Nf3, please don't put it in the others group. I want pawn moves. E4.10 &...
I loved playing fried liver as im 12 so my opponents often fall into the trap and some dont even move there king up and just play it back to were it was because they miss the queen threat but after playing against some good quality opponents when ...
Sometimes you have a trap planned but 1 little move from your opponent and a mistake from yourself can destroy your trap. Here is an example. I this example White tries to win a rook but ends off as a trade and has a bad position.
If you don't know what the Queen's gambit is, it is a offer of a pawn on the queen-side. But is really a gambit? Qa4+ instantly gets the pawn back. It also gives a good central position. Black has no developed pieces that are useful. The o...
