Simplification is one of those deceptively simple chess principles. You hear it once and you think you are done with it: OK, when a piece up, just swap off everything and win the endgame. What could be more obvious than that? Still, as a chess c...
I decided to write a post about cross-pins because quite a few of my students said that they never heard about the idea before our lessons. Of course, there is nothing new under the sun: while I was collecting material for this post, I discovered ...
The weekend before last I participated in the Bangor Congress 2019, a 6 round rapid tournament which has been revived after a 14 year break, thanks to the energetic organiser, Brendan Jameson and his team. Tournament Organiser/Arbiter Bre...
This is a game from userfriendly2, who posted it on the forum, asking for help with the analysis. I think the game is quite instructive, and White's mistakes are rather typical, so I decided to write a post about it. I added my comments to userfri...
In this post I would like to show you an old game of mine, which I played in 2013 in Dublin in the Irish National Club Championship. I was playing for Galway, and my opponent was another Hungarian, IM Tibor Károlyi, who happened to ...
There are a lot of chess principles we hear all the time, but don’t necessarily understand, or never really investigate. The purpose of these posts is to take a closer look of those principles, and examine the logic behind them. One ...
This is a game from Giasira, who posts his games regularly under the topic "Road to 1600 Rapid, trying to improve after every game". His last game was a loss, and must have been a painful one, as he had such an overwhelming advantage at one poin...
There are a lot of chess principles we hear all the time, but don’t necessarily understand, or never really investigate. The purpose of these posts is to take a closer look of those principles, and examine the logic behind them. Our ...
I just checked recently the old tournament games of my very first online student, and wanted to share some of them with you. My student is a ten years old little girl from England. I started to give her face to face lessons two years ag...
In this post I would like share with you a nice attacking game which I played recently in the Morra gambit. Although the Morra is not my main weapon against the Sicilian, I teach it to my young students, so I have to play it from time to time...
Freehealthcare published this game on the forums, asking why he lost the endgame, as it did not look so bad. Well, the main reason was apparently a misplaced rook on b2 that got into trouble. We all have heard that we should develop our...
