One thing I’ve noticed very often when working with club players is that they start calculating almost immediately after reaching a middlegame position. Three moves deep. Five moves deep. Sometimes even deeper. But later, when we go thro...
One thing I notice a lot with club players is that they often don’t lose because of one terrible move. The position just slowly gets worse. A move here.Another move there.Nothing dramatic. And then suddenly, ten moves later, everything...
You probably know this feeling. The opening ends, nothing dramatic has happened, and the position looks… fine. Not winning, not losing. Just a normal game. And then you play a move. Not because it’s clearly the best one.Just s...
When the Opening Ends and You Lose Your Compass There’s a moment in almost every game where things start to feel uncertain. The opening is over.The familiar patterns are gone.And suddenly you’re on your own. You look at the posit...
Today I had a 40 minutes calculation session later I had a 20 minutes session when I played a game and analyzed it. You can watch the calculation session: I played with the Serbian International Grandmaster Vladimir Raicevic. He playe...
Today I decided to take time every day to improve my own chess. This way I will also gain more experience how adult improvers can use well their limited time. I will share the ways I study, my games with annotations and all ideas which you can a...
I the final round I played with International Master William Paschall from the United States. He played very solid in the opening. I got some space advantage, but used too much time in simple positions. When I decided to go for a sharp position,...
In round 8 of the EUTender Master Tourney I played with the Hungarian FIDE-Master Peter Zentai. He played the g3, Bg2 setup against the Slav defense and got a small edge, but he played too slowly and allowed me to play the e6-e5 break to equaliz...
On Sundy I played in the Hungarian league. my team Esztergom played against Szombathely. My opponent was Dr. Peter Sardy, a FIDE-Master. He played a very early Nc3 at move 3 in the Pirc defense. I think White should play there d5 to gain space and...
In round 7 I played with Zsombor Pogány from Hungary. He played the Grunfeld defense. We got an equal position. I missed his Nd7-e5-d3 plan, which gave him slight edge. In the time trouble I bulndered a pawn under the pressure, but he allow...
Finally I won a nice game! In round 6 I played with Sedrani Ammar from the United Arab Emirates. He played the exchange variation against the Slav defense and started a kingside expansion. I counter-attacked on the queenside and won 2 pawns an...
In round 5 I played with FIDE-Master Zalán Németh from Hungary. He played the Chabanenko variation of the Slav defense. I used a lot of time in the opening to build an attack. I gained a lot of space on the queenside, but he defended...
In round 4 I played with Evgeny Gumanny from Israel. I equalized with the Cambridge Springs Defense, but in a critical moment I took on d4 instead of c4. The position opened up and he had a better development. He found 2 nice intermediate moves an...
In round 3 I played with the Hungarian talent Domonkos Szakmáry. He played the stonewall setup. I got an edge in the middlegame, but he defended well and when I took too much risk, he got a winning position. When he missed an interme...
In round 2 of the EUTender Master Tourney I played the Slav defense against International Master David Horvath. He played the solid Bd3 move against Bf5 to offer the exchange and soon offered me a draw. I decided to play on in a little...
In the first round of the EUTender Master Tourney I played with FIDE-MAster LEvente Miszler. We played a Slav-Catalan hybrid. I got a small edge in the middlegame, but I played too risky with very little time and We got a rook endgame where he w...
In round 8 I played with International Master Sándor Kustár from Hungary. He played the agressive Grundfeld opening to attack my center. I missed his Nc6-d4 manover which equalized the game. Rd1 was important to prevent the N...
In round 6 I played wit the winner of the last Master tourney FIDE-Master Zalan Nemeth. He surprised me in the Meran with Bb3 and he got a big advantage, but in the middlegame he allowed me to sacrifice my queen and 2 pawns for 2 bishops and a kni...
In round 5 I played with the young German player Alfred Nemitz. I got an advantage from the queen's gambit declined variation, but he defended well and got a near equal position. In a long and interesting knight endgame I won a pawn and converte...
In round 1 I played with International Master Bence Pribelszky. He played a strange opening and I spent a lot of time to decide on a setup. I got an extra pawn, but in the time trouble I gave it back and it ended as a draw. 2 exercises from the ...
In round 3 I played with International Master Al Muthaiah from India. He is the highest rated player in the tourney with a FIDE rating of 2474. Against the chebanenko Sla I played a4 to force the exchange to open the b-file for future atta...
My round 1 game will be played on Tuesday morning and I started with round 2. I played against the Russian FIDE-Master Kirill Shoshin. He started with 1.c4. I replied c6 to iinvite him to the Slav defense. He continued with e4 to transpose to the ...
Hello Friends, the last tourney finished on Friday and the new one already starting today at 15:00. I will play in the First Saturday February 2025 International Master Tourney. It is a norm event where 4 players and 6 internatonal masters play ...
I finished 2nd in the SixSays International Master Tourney. It was my best Master Tourney in the last 15 years. Final Ranking after 9 Rounds Rk. SNo Name sex FED Rtg Pts. TB1 n w-we K rtg+/- 1 ...
In round 7 I played against FIDE-master Zalan Nemeth. We played the same opening last year like today. I improved the opening, but in the middlegame I made a bad exchange of pawns. After mass exchanges I got a rook and 2 knights versus queen and p...
