In round 9 I played with International Master Issa Rafat from Jordan, who lives in Hungary, Budapest. He played the Italian game and a very passive version of it with Be3. I captured on e3 to create double pawns which can be a small plus in the ...
In round 8, I played with a very talented 13 years old Indian FIDE-master Souhardo Basak. When he was 10 years old, already won against a Grandmaster: I played the Catalan opening. He sacrificed the c-pawn and made a few inaccuracy...
In round 7 I played with the 17 years old FIDE-master Tamás Öngüt. He played The Ruy Lopez opening and I decided to play the solid d6, Bd7 setup. He played slowly with d3 and when he played d3-d4 later, then I had a chan...
In round 6 I played with the white pieces against Grandmaster Gergely Aczél. He is the top rated player of the tournament. He is the highest rated player I ever won in a tournament game. He got the 2nd place in the Hungarian KO championship...
In round 5 I played with Leon Luke Mendonca, a 14 years old Indian International Master who just made 2 Grandmaster norms in October and November. He arrived from a GM tourney which he won with 7,5 point out of 9 games. A very impressive performan...
In round 4 I played with the 15 years old FIDE master Endre Csiki, the local prodigy. He is the reason behind the Tournament. He planned to play in other tourneys, but they were canceled, then his father decided to organize a tourney to gi...
Yesterday was a double round, after 4,5 hours fight in the first game I faced the senior of the tourney, International Master Vitezslav Priehoda from Czech Republic. I played the Slav defense and when he played c5 and f4 to gain space a misjudge...
In the 2nd round I played with candidate-master David Balogh. I decided to use the Bd2 variation in the Winawer French to prevent the double-pawns. He got the quicker development, I got space advantage. There was a critical moment where ...
After 1,5 years of break, I am playing again in an international tournament! It is the 1st Kumania International Master Tournament in Kisújszállás in Hungary. We have 2 Grandmasters 4 International Masters and 4 FIDE-maste...
In the morning I decided to stop thinking and start acting I started to work on my calculation skill. I solved the first 30 puzzles in 30 minutes from the Woodpecker Method book on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo You can w...
Today I ran 5,3 km in 33 minutes and had a great walk in the forest with my daughter and her friend. In the morning I played a quick game before we went to the forest: I studied a few pawn endgames which I want to share with you: ...
In the morning I played 3 minutes games against Viewers on https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo I selected a few simple combinations from the games which I invite you to find: Then I went to run to the forest and did som...
I wrote you long-long time ago. My last tournament was in April in 2019. Then I became busy to sell real estates and find one which fits for our needs. The 2nd part of 2019 was about that. We were able to sell the real estates and buy our new hous...
Dear Friends, Sorry for not writing in the last months. I was busy by moving to our new house, going for holiday and restructuring my life, which is still work in progress I decided to open up the new teaching hours on weekdays, from Monday to ...
I continued to study the book How to reassess your chess by International Master Jeremy Silman In this part he showed how can we use the knowledge about the imbalances to create and execute a plan. The knowledge about how to play with an imbalan...
Today I continued to study the book: How to reassess your chess by International Master Jeremy Silman. I continued to explore the themes which will be discussed in details in the future chapter. The last time I studied examples about the fo...
Today I decided to reread and study the wonderful book: How to reassess your chess by Jeremy Silman. The knowledge of this book helps to build up a good foundation for positional chess. In the first chapter it show an overview of the topics...
Double attack is the most common tactic in chess. When we attack 2 pieces with the same piece then we call it a fork. Knight and pawn forks are very common. Also possible to attack two enemy pieces with 2 of our pieces in a move, example when we m...
Yesterday I played in the Hungarian League and had a painful loss. I got an extra pawn after a break in the center and instead of going to an endgame, I made an attacking move and overlooked a simple discovered attack to lose an exchange. Today ...
My road temporary stopped in May 2019 when I became too busy with finding a house to buy and sell 3 property to finance our new house. We got our house in November 2019. It has 2 apartments, one for us and one for my father and mother in law. ...
In the 5th round of the Budapest Spring Festival, I played with the young Hungarian Talent Tamas Tancsa. I played the Breyer variation, the first time in my life. The center and the queenside became totally closed and his attack looked strong on...
In the 4th round of the Budapest Spring Festival I played with English FIDE-Master Adam C Taylor. This is his chess.com profile: https://www.chess.com/member/tayip99 You can check the current standings at http://chess-results.com/tnr411068.as...
In the 3rd round of the Budapest Spring Festival I played with a Hungarian Junior Talent, Tamas Gunes Ongut. In our last game I played the accelerated dragon and we played a draw in a long game. This time I decided to start with e5. He ...
In the 2nd round of the Budapest Spring Festival I played with the strong Russian Grandmaster Artyom Timofeev, " Artyom Timofeev (Russian: Артём Тимофеев; born January 6, 1985 in Kazan)[1] is a Russian chess gr...
Yesterday I started to play in a tournament, the Budapest Spring Festival. It is a very strong tourney with over 20 International Grandmasters. You can check the tourney at http://chess-results.com/tnr411068.aspx?lan=1&art=0&fed=ARM&tu...
