What is the best first move? Hi guys this is the www.onlinechesscamp presentation how to comment the chess game. It is series of installments and we are going through one sample game trying to cover all the most important parts of the game....
Kramnik’s retirement I first met Kramnik during the Moscow Open in 1992. He was a young star with a big future and I was despite the fact that I was only 30 years old the star from the past. Years to come we played a lot of games, ...
On the eve of disaster The Berlin Candidates tournament is about to finish. There were numerous online comments during the rounds and one I took a peek was the Shipov’s youtube channel. The other popular one is the Saint Louise che...
I like to discuss the fuss about AlfaZero. Some people, even chess players are praising it as something they never saw before and the authors behind AlfaZero wish to convey us that they created something which could learn chess in four hours an...
128 players started the World Cup and at the end there was a sole winner. The knock out format is cruesome, but in my opinion most democratic system used to determine the winner. Even current World Champion Magnus Carlsen took part of this comptet...
XXIII International Chess Festival ''Liepajas rokade-2016'' The traditional chess festival in Latvia took place in the first weekend of august this year in Liepaja . The Open, the blitz, the supertournament, the tennis tournament were all calle...
Dear chess friend, My name is Jaan Ehlvest. I was one of the top tournament player during 1988 till 1991 when I finished the World Cup tournament series only behind Kasparov, Karpov and Salov. Nowadays I am devoted chess coach. I am very few ...
To comment rapid games on chess media is not very common and I like to fulfill this cap. Years ago there was the “Informator” a regular edition published in former Yugoslavia. Game collections contributed almost all of the top players. The fe...
GM Alexander Shabalov the recent winner of the US Open is answering your questions next Sunday. The interview takes place here on www.chess.com on live chess window using the analyses board. We can accommodate only first 22 registered aficiona...
Rapid events are common in Baltic states. The idea of rapid chess was introduced into practice years ago in Soviet Estonia. Later European and World Championships were held at the end of 1980-s. The FIDE rapid and blitz Championships were organiz...
The strongest handicap tournament ever was held in Pyhajarve Estonia over the last weekend. It was 15th in a row thanks to former Estonian prime minister Mr. Tiit Vahi. The venue was Pyhajarve Spa http://www.pyhajarve.com/en/ and I was the lucky w...
Vitaly Ceshkovsky was many time USSR champion and also a chess coach. His students were Kramnik and Macieja among others. The tournament was held in Loo village 15 miles from Sochi. Sochi as we know is the venue for upcoming Anand Carlsen match. W...
There are many summer chess festivals in Europe. Some of them have a long tradition. The 48th edition of the Ilmar Raud Memorial was held from 30th June to 6th July 2014 at the Viljandi Sports Center in Viljandi, a town in souther...
Magnus Carlsen won both championships. He was lucky, but the strongest players have usually more luck anyway. This tournament was unique, because in short time of period it provided so many games between top players. In circumstances where players...
The Riga Railway Open in rapid chess took place in the last weekend of March. Many strong GM-s were participating, but theresult of the winner Ivanchuk made headlines. At the end he managed to get 13 points out of 14. Reminds Fischer in his bes...
Garry Kasparov was the best player of the last century, and despite his advancing age (at almost 42 years old he was one of the oldest player at the top level) he had continued his success in tournament chess. In his last Linares tournament in 20...
Moscow is big city and powerfull too. In US chess and power are not related to each other and only in Saint Louise we can see some powerfull local men during chess events opening ceremonies. In Moscow new president of the local chess federation wa...
Other great chess event just finished in Moscow. To really gasp the situation from internet is not really possible. This time at least the commentary was in good level thanks to the editor of New in Chess Dirk Jan Geuzendam. Over the net however y...
The first thing you need to do is to learn from your own mistakes and never repeat them. This advice from Botvinnik is the corestone to excellence. Problem is that you can not point out your mistakes yourself because even reading some books wher...
In previous post I mentioned the game Kasparo-Anand from Riga 1995 where Garry unexpectidly played the move 4.b4!? and won, he was coaching Nakamura last year and we saw that Naka used this line as suprise against Hess in the first round. Full cre...
Dear chess aficionados, I try to give time to time some comments on important events, like US Ch and ofcourse the World Championship match between Anand and Gelfand. First round in Saint Louise was very interesting, and my scepticism about the fu...
