Winning against Hikaru Nakamura, or any other top-level chess player, is a difficult task that requires a high level of skill and preparation. Here are a few general tips that may help you to improve your chances:
Study his games: Analyze Hik...
I think the most important is to have a balance of studying new things and playing games to try out the new ideas.
I suggest you use at least 50 % of your time to study new things and the rest of the time to play games and analyze your games to ...
If you want to improve your chess skills you need to do 3 things:
1. First you need to study something new
2. Then you need to play games to try our your new knowledge
3. After the games you need to analyze how you used your new knowledge an...
Today I played in the 2nd round of the Hungarian Superleague against International Master Albert Bokros.
He played the Ruy Lopez. I got more space on the queenside, but he attacked well on the Kingside.
The final combination from the game: ...
Dear Friends,
Would you like to play with an International Master?
I will play with 20-30 players in the same time simultaneously.
The time control will be 30 minutes per player plus 30 seconds increment per move.
Date: 08.28.2022. Sunday ...
In the last 2 weeks I played a lot of Simultaneous games when I played with several players in the same time. This way everybody has a chance to play with an international master.
I collected a few simple checkmates and tactics puzzles from the ...
Dear Friends,
Would you like to play with an International Master?
I will play with 20-30 players in the same time simultaneously.
The time control will be 30 minutes per player plus 30 seconds increment per move.
The starting time in the ...
Dear Friends,
I will play with 20-30 players in the same time simultaneously.
The time control will be 30 minutes per player plus 30 seconds increment per move.
The starting time in the different time zones will be:
noon Los Angeles time
...
Dear Friends,
I will hold a simul in about 1 hour. I will play with 20-30 players in the same time simultaneously.
The time control will be 30 minutes per player plus 30 seconds increment per move.
The starting time in the different time zon...
In round 9 of the Vezerkepzo international tournament I played with the young ukrainen talent, who won more than 600 point in the last 5 months. Going from 1628 over 2253 and in this tourney also won more than 55 points.
He played the 5.....
In round 8 of the Vezerkepzo international tournament I played with the young International Master Nath Minh To.
He played the e3 variation of the Nimzo-indian defense, which was new for me in a classical game. He played the minority attack, b...
In round 7 of the Vezerkepzo international tournament I played with the young talented Hungarian player Donat Daroczi.
I played the London system and he played a tricky move-order to prevent me playing Bg3 after his Bd6. I decided to allo...
In round 6 of the Vezerkepzo international tournament I played with the young talented Hungarian FIDE-Master Agoston Juhasz, who has 2 International Master brothers. Strong chess family!
He played the Bg5 variation in the Sicilian najdorf. I dec...
In round 5 of the Vezerkepzo international tournament I played with the young Irish player Zalan Nemeth.
He played very solidly the english opening. I took risk to attack his king and allowed him to get a strong passed pawn. In the time troub...
In round 4 of the Vezerkepzo international tournament I played with 4 times Ukrainian Champion International Grandmaster Valeriy Neverov.
I got a small advantage out of the opening. I played the e3-e4 pawn break too early and allowed him to equa...
In round 3 of the Vezerkepzo international tournament I played with the great attacker FIDE-Master Mark Lyell from England.
I played 2...d6 against Nc3 to be able to play the Najdorf if white continues with Nf3 and d4.
The drawback of d6 if I ...
In round 2 of the Vezerkepzo international tournament I played with Simon Fule, a Hungarian FIDE-Master, a young talent.
The fight was around the center. After a mistake I was able to play the e3-e4 break to get a small edge, which I was able to...
Yesterday started the June edition of the Vezerkepzo international tournament. I am playing in the International Master group.
In round 1 I played with a talented Hungarian girl, Rozsa Majoros.
After analyzing the najdorf variation...
I played this game against a Slovakian International Master.
Instead of Qa5 he moved back to e7 with the bishop in the Queen's gambit declined and allowed me to create him an isolated pawn on d5. After the development of the pieces he tried to e...
Yesterday after the finish of the Grandmaster tourney, where I lost 5 games in the time trouble I decided to follow this plan:
Study tactics 2 hours a day to improve the speed and the calculation skills.
Play the Titled Tuesday on Tuesday and ...
In the final 9th round of the Vezerkepzo 2022 May GM tourney I played with Gleb Dudin, the Winner of the tourney, a young russian talent who made half point more than the Grandmaster norm and made 1 point more then the 2nd player.
He surprise...
In round 8 of the Vezerkepzo 2022 May GM tourney I played with Gabor Nagy a young Hungarian Grandmaster. You can check his chess.com games at https://www.chess.com/member/gabix_94
He played the queen's indian defense. I got a position...
In round 7 of the Vezerkepzo 2022 May GM tourney I played with Simon Füle a talented young Hungarian player.
He played the Rauzer variation of the sicilian defense. After his f4-f5 move I should have played e6-e5 to keep the position clo...
In round 6 of the Vezerkepzo 2022 May GM tourney I played with Grandmaster Milan Pacher from Slovakia.
I played the Russian variation of the Grunfeld Defense, which he replied with Nc6. I forgot my line, so I decided to play slower c...
In round 5 of the Vezerkepzo 2022 May Grandmaster tourney I played with Grandmaster Valeriy Aveskulov from Ukraine. You can check his website at https://www.chesstao.com/
He played the b4 gambit in the Rossolimo sicilian, which I ...