My Dear Chess Friends! Finally after 3 months of razor-sharp play between our participants, I'm glad to tell you that all 9 rounds were finished and we have 3 prizewinners! But before I announce who they are, let me tell you more about how thi...
Dear Chess Friends! This is the recording from the webinar that I conducted this Sunday (8th December). On the webinar I tried to explain how to lock enemy pieces out and what to apply to exploit this advantage! We analyzed 3 game fragments wh...
Dear Chess Friends! Our last webinar was devoted to Semi-Slav Defense sidelines. And, of course, openings are important and sometimes home preparation plays the most significant role in the game. But your ability to think and play strategically ...
My Dear Chess Friends! In this post I want to share with you where to play for IM or GM norm and how to get these norms. Everything is based on my own experience. Looking ahead I can say that I didn't get a norm, but could do it. However, I incr...
Dear Chess Friends! I hoped you liked my webinars devoted to certain openings and that’s why I decided to create one more where I’m going to cover how to play Semi-Slav Defense if white tries to deviate from the main lines. I believe...
Dear Chess Friends!This is the recording from the webinar that I conducted this Sunday (24th November). On the webinar I tried to explain how to play middlegames with opposite-colored bishops, what should you do and how it looks like in real games...
Dear Chess Friends! I’m absolutely sure you know that positions with bishops of opposite color have so many drawing tendencies. If both sides locate their pawns on squares of their bishop’s color then it’s quite difficult to fi...
Dear Chess Friends!This is the recording from the webinar that I conducted on Sunday (17th November). I decided to publish it here, because some of you missed this webinar, but I'm absolutely sure that it was a helpful material and knowledge of th...
Dear Chess Friends! Thank you for participation in my Simultaneous Exhibition and now I’m glad to invite you to my 11th webinar “How to Play against French Defense: Winawer Variation”. Of course, you know that Winawer Variati...
