What do you do after E4? Well what about E5. Actually that is quite good. But I would like to talk about something different? What if you play D5. That would actually be quite a big mistake. Okay, E4 takes, then queen takes. The problem is that yo...
In the Bogoljubow Variation of the Queen's Gambit Accepted (1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 a6 5.e4), Black tries to defend his pawn structure after winning a pawn. But this usually leads to quick development for White. In this g...
Chess is a game that you love and hate at the same time, one of those things in life that nobody can explain. It is easier to achieve a winning game than to win it. One bad move nullifies forty good ones, and precision technique is of the ess...
Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was born on April 23, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up (1930-1938) in Libertyville and Evanston, Illinois, a town northwest of Chicago. He learned chess as a teenager and tried to teach his friend, W...
Mikhail Tal (Riga, Latvia 1936-1992) defeated Mikhail Botvinnik in 1960 to become World Champion, he was 23 at the time, the youngest player ever to win the title (his record was broken in 1985, when Garry Kasparov won the World Title at the ...
Jacques Mieses (1865-1954) was a German-born player who was awarded the Grandmaster title at the age of 85, in 1950. At the time, he was a naturalized British citizen, making him the first British chess grandmaster. In his early years,...
I came across this endgame exercise, I don't know who maded it up but I think it's pretty cool and sweet. Underpromotion is defined as "Promoting a pawn when it reaches the eight rank to less than a Queen." This is a little used ...
I'm been wondering if this type of chess does exist. I don't know. I don't even know how would you play a three level chess. It would be to difficult. At first, how would you move the pieces up & down? You would have to change thei...
This is my last Opening for Beginners Article, and I hope you all enjoyed them and learned something too. Its basically a wrap up, I'm going to try and avoid repeating things from past articles, and focus on the things that don't quit...
An endgame of Rook and Knight vs Rook and 2 Pawns should be a draw in most cases. Here is a game by two of the world's leading chess players of the 19th century, and both players missed better moves that could have won or drawn the game....
Is an uncountered fried liver really that good, i have tried it myself many tines and young'n's often fall into that trap, but how good is it really, for have found no real way to abuse it ...
Dear ladies and gents, This is a "re-arranged digested" 1907 game of Karlsbad between Leonhardt and Tartakower, hope you would like it Love,Anthony
The diagram below is a setting for an endgame composed by Armenian Grandmaster Genrikh Kasparyan (1910-1995). White to play and win. Though White is two pieces ahead, Black threatens 1...f3xg2 mate as well as queening his e-pawn. It appears that B...
This exercise will blow your mind (From the book "All About Chess" by three times US Open Champion Israel A. Horowitz). White is to play and win. This seems an impossible task, White is ahead two bishops for a pawn, but since both b...
Reuben Fine (New York City, 1914-1993) was one of the best Chess players in the world from the mid 1930's through the early 1940's. He was an International Grandmaster, Author of several Chess books and psychologist. Fine won four gol...
A player's most common opening move is by moving the pawn in front of the king (queen as well sometimes).This way the player could free the bishop on the king's side and his queen.He could move his knight free anytime.This is also the...
Most chess players know about this that castling has 3 advantages. 1)The player could get his king to a corner easier which is very advisable. 2)The player can have his rooks protect each other much better provided there is no space between b...
A couple of years ago I found myself on the receiving end of a surprise mate in a position I had expected to win. It was one of those odd-ball positions that crop up occasionally and after getting over the shock (and giving my opponent full ...
How often do we see an eleven-move checkmate between masters? no very often of course. Israel A. Horowitz once said: "The popular notion persists that Chess is an epic battle when masters get together. Far into the night the wrangle goes on,w...
When Alexander Alekhine died in 1946, the world was left without a champion. Shortly after that sad event, Mikhail Botvinnik won the coveted title in 1948; yes, the college professor-looking player from Russia. His sound, profound and brillia...
So you've just begun to play chess. You're starting to get the basic idea; however, you're noticing that many things are happening that you just don't see coming. You might get seemingly randomly checkmated by a long-range operator...
The Benko Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5) has been around since the 1930s. In the USSR, it was called the Volga Gambit and plyed by Opocensky in the 1940s. Pal Benko started playing and analyzing it in the 1960s, and wrote his book, ...
The Leningrad (perhaps we should call it St Petersburg) variation of the NimzoIndian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5) was a favorite of Boris Spassky (from Leningrad). It was also played by Alekhine,Reti, and Korchnoi. This game, fro...
