Not sure whether my fascination with Scotch opening started as a just defense against Ruy Lopez or Italian - since everybody seemed well-prepared in those openings, or failure in crazy gambits such as Danish Gambit, but Gary Kasparov's world champ...
I played in a couple of standard OTB tournaments last month. Had spent quite some time on tactics and studying endgames and was hoping for a little improvement in my performance. Although I only lost 3 rating points overall, I was very disappointe...
FM alexsuper1987 who recently achieved his Fide Master title, scheduled some free live events, including a 20-games simultaneous game which was held on April 16th. He has free lessons on his youtube channel which you can subscribe here (he'll hol...
The Candidates 2016 ended after 14 rounds and Sergey Karjakin finished on top with 8.5 point. The two leaders Karjakin and Caruana had to play each other in round 14. Karjakin managed to win the game to finish on top. It was a tight race tho...
Many chess programs and websites - including our beloved chess.com - generate PGN files and allow us to export or download them. As the number of the games grow, it's good to be able to archive them properly, add comments, annotations and extra in...
Here are a few more puzzles. They should be fairly easy to solve, though I hope they're fun!
I've been thinking about designing chess puzzles lately and thought to give it a go. Have to admit though that it was harder than I thought and the outcome not as good as what I expected. Have you ever tried to design a puzzle? If so, how did it ...
It was a great pleasure to have Anatoly Karpov in the opening ceremony. While the top guys (2100+) were fighting in Group A, there were Group B (for U2100 players) and Group C for women, plus age restricted groups for U14 and U06. Hotel Kosar wh...
