In my last article, I mentioned how last year me and my friends started a chess discord server.In this discord server, you could earn special titles. These titles denoted not only your skill level, but also the level of power you had in the server...
It all started in 2020, as many things have nowadays. I watched The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix, discovered Chess.com, and immediately got addicted. I started to stay up late watching strategy videos, and then waking up early to use them the next mo...
Rainn Wilson! Playing chess! No way! This was pretty much my thought process when I saw the lineup for Pogchamps 3. I was so excited to see mainstream celebrities battle it out over the chessboard with some of my favorite streamers. However, when...
Many of the top chess players in the world have agonized for years over the same question: what is the best opening in chess? There are hundreds of different moves to consider, and hundreds of ways to answer the question. Even with the world's top...
There is a disease that plagues the world of online chess. It is a problem that I myself, along with many others I know struggle with. It holds players back from becoming great. No, I am not talking about the infamous chess elbow, or a cripp...
Chess.com is a great website. They have puzzles and games and archives and my personal favorite, blogs. You can log on to play chess for fun, or use their tools to improve your skills. You can play against your friends or watch your favorite...
The botez gambit. One of the most brilliant and ingenious chess tactics of this decade. Many people may see as stupidity, a mistake, but it is so much more than that. Just like the bongcloud attack, it is one of the most misunderstood tactic...
I recently wrote an article about the history of the bongcloud. This article did pretty well, which inspired me to undergo this experiment. For the next week, every game I play, I will use the bongcloud opening. Every. Single. Game. I will d...
Chess titles. These are the way the chess community honors and recognizes great players, and makes them feel better about wasting hours of their life on a board game (I know I will receive hate messages for that, but it was worth it). Chess ...
“No one ever won a game by resigning” - Savielly Tartakower I agree. Unless you are playing chess at a very high level or you need to leave for the airport, there are very few situations in chess where you should resign. No matter wh...
Recently, a fairly new chess opening has risen to prominence in the chess community. It is a beautiful, complex, genius opening used by the top grandmasters. This opening goes by a name as great as the move itself. I am of course, talking ab...
I got into chess at the same time that a lot of people in my generation did; after watching The Queen’s Gambit. Before watching this show, I saw chess as something distant, something you could only play if you were an old man in a suit and tie, or...
