Italy and United States have their new chess prodigy. Fabiano Caruana, a young player with dual citizenships, won the First Saturday-GM group in Budapest, Hungary, with 7 points out of 9 and scored his third and last GM norm. Caruana is 14 ye...
It 's almost always a good idea to occupy and control the 7th rank with your Rook. Here is a nice game where Rudolf Spielmann, an Austrian professional player, took complete control of the 7th rank with his Rooks to force the win.
Everyone can officail state that the king is the best peice, but I would argue and agree. When I play I protect the 2nd most inportant peice, the Queen. The queen packs butt kicking power and royalty into 1 peice! I beleive that if I can ma...
There once was a player from Maine,Who played chess on a fast train.He took a move backAnd was thrown off the track,And he never played chess again.There once was a chessplayer named Flo,Who liked to mate, you know;When you castled long,She helped...
Chess is such an international game. Here is a game played by a Hungarian player against a Polish player using the French Defense played in Russia. The winner was Leo Fleischmann, a former Hungarian champion who gave up the game after ...
Bobby Fischer is considered by many as the greatest chess player who ever lived. He was US champion at 14 and one of the top players in the world in his teenage years. Here is a game where he sacs his Rook to get the king out in the ce...
Johannes Hermann Zukertort (SOOK-er-tort) was born in Lublin, Poland on September 7, 1842. Zukertort said that his mother was the Baroness Krzyzanovska. Zukertort studied chemistry at Heidelberg and physiology at Berlin. In 1861, he enrolled at ...
Siegbert Tarrasch was born on March 5, 1862 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). In his autobiography (Dreihundert Schachpartien), he wrote that he was born with a club foot Breslau was one of the largest Jewish communities in the world....
Siegbert Tarrasch was another all-time great chess player. He was one of the top 5 chess players in the world for about 20 years. Here is an early game of his where he traps and mates the enemy king in the middle of the board. An...
What are Veselin Topalov and Vishy Anand saying to each other? No prizes! Just for fun!
Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal (born Mihails Tals) was born in Riga, Latvia on November 9, 1936. Hi father was a medical doctor, At age 7, Mikhail became interested in chess when he saw it being played in his father's waiting room. He learned the rul...
Akiba Rubinstein was one of the most dangerous chessplayers in the world and a great combination player. Here is a game where he first sacrifices his Queen, then the next move he sacrifices his Rook, and all this to force mate with the piece...
He has been one of the greatest chess players ever, now he is a politician and a very brilliant speaker. Former chess world champion Garry Kasparov was in Milan, Italy, on June 30 and July 1: he spoke about "Absolute" and "Competiti...
Viktor Korchnoi is one of my favorite players, as a player and a person. I have interviewed him and played him in a simul (I had to convince him that playing 50 players in a simul wasn't so bad in the United States - he won them all).&nb...
Time and time again, I keep hearing a common theme from beginner chess players. "....but I didn't want to lose my queen." As much fun as queens can be on a chessboard, with their smooth exterior, their elegant round top with ever-so-...
Wilhelm Steinitz (vil'helm shti'nits) was born to Jewish parents in a Prague ghetto, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) in 1836. His exact birth date is unknown. The best research comes from Dr. Hermann Neustadtl who establishes his birt...
Aron Nimzovich was one of the greatest chessplayers of the 20th century and a fine author. He wrote My System, considered one of the best books on chess. Here is a game where he finds a neat mating combination involving a tricky queen ...
Alex Shabalov is well known as one of the great attacking players of today's game. He really has the passion and desire to blast all of his opponents off of the 64 squares. His style is really a fan favorite and he always produces many flashy ...
Former US champion Frank Marshall played an interesting game where he tried to sac his Queen, but his opponent did not take the bait. The next move, Marshall made another Queen move, sacrificing his Queen again. This time his opp...
Cambridge Springs was a health resort in Pennsylvania, famous for its spas and mineral waters. It advertised that it was the town that was halfway between New York and Chicago when you took the Erie Railroad line. It is in northwestern Pennsylv...
Here is an interesting game I played on the internet. It was a 90 5 time control game and my opponent was rated about 200 points above me. I will provide full annotations and commentary: This was a very satisfying win for me as in a few months I w...
Frank James Marshall was born on the west side of Manhattan on August 10, 1877. He was taken to Montreal when he was 8 years old and lived there for 11 years. He learned the game of chess at age 10 from his father, Alfred. In 1890 he...
Here is a game in which Emanual Lasker found a way to penetrate his queen in enemy territory, then sac it for a checkmate. See if you can find the winning moves.
Emanuel Lasker was born in Berlinchen (now Barlinck, Poland as of 1945), the Prussian province of Brandenberg, on December 24, 1868. He was the second son of Adolf Lasker, a Jewish cantor in a synagogue. His mother was Rosalie Israelssohn. They al...
