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...
After the first 8 rounds of the February Titled Tuesday Tournament I had 4,5 points. The time control of the tourney was 3 minutes per player plus 2 seconds increment per move. In the 9th round I played with the Young Candidate Master Rohit...
Yesterday was the last round in the First Saturday Grandmaster tournament in Budapest, Hungary. I played with International Grandmaster from Montenegro, Dragan Kosic. He played the solid Colle-system and I decided to neutralize ...
I played this game in the First Saturday Grandmaster tournament in Budapest, Hungary. Yesterday my opponent was the talented young Indonesian International Master Novendra Priasmoro. I played the Torre-attack and my oppo...
Yesterday I played in the Hungarian league in Szeged, Hungary. My opponent was an experienced FIDE-Master Papp Zoltan Csaba. I played the London system and he replied with d5 and g6, Bg7 with a Grunfeld setup. He made an early mistak...
I am playing in the First Saturday Grandmaster tournament in Budapest, Hungary. Yesterday I played with Grandmaster Zlatko Ilincic from Serbia. I used the Slav defense and he decided to play a slow development to...
The last game was against the tournament leader a very talented Hungarian Junior player International Master Gergely Kantor. Gergely prepared very well against the London system and his pawn sacrifice idea with e5 gave him a gre...
My last opponent was Vuk Damjanovic, a 12 year old very strong talent from Serbia. I played the London system and he replied with the Bg4 variation, an aggressive move. I played c4 to counter-attack his center, but instead of defending w...
Yesterday I played the young talented German player Theo Gungl. I played the Chebanenlo Slav. He won space with the c5 variation and got an advantage. I need to sacrifice a pawn to keep the game going. He could win the game...
Yesterday I played with the young Grandmaster Gergely Aczél from Hungary. I played the Torre-attack. He replied with h6-g5, Nh5 to get my dark bishop. I built up a nice center and space advantage. The middlegame was tense until I ...
Yesterday I played with a young Vietnamese player Nguyen Van Thanh. I got an interesting idea to play c3-c4 in the exchange variation of the London system. I got an extra pawn on the queenside by moving c4-c5. He counter-attacked by...
Yesterday I palyed with the talented Hungarian 15 years old FIDE-master Alex Krstulovic. I played the Chebanenko Slav. He got the pair of bishop in the beginning of the game, but I was able to get a slight edge, by the b5, b5 queenside advance. ...
Today at 3:00 pm, I will play the first game in the First Saturday Grandmaster Tourney in Budapest. My first opponent will be Alex Krstulovic, a young talented FIDE-master. Alex was born on September 10, 2003 in Budapest, Hungary. He fir...
I will start to play in a Grandmaster tourney tomorrow, on Sunday the 3rd of March. 10 player will play an all play all tourney in 9 rounds. 21 years ago I played in my last Grandmaster tourney, that time I got around 50% and my ra...
First I would like to share with you a beautiful checkmate from World Champion Veselin Topalov Yesterday I studied puzzles for 2 hours. I share a few checkmates with you. --------------------------------------...
First I would like to share with you a beautiful checkmate from World Champion Vasily Smyslov Yesterday I studied puzzles for 2 hours. I share a few combinations and checkmates with you. --------------------------------...
First I would like to share with you a beautiful combination from World Champion Emanuel Lasker: Yesterday I studied puzzles for 2 hours. I share a few puzzles with you. --------------------------------------------------...
2 weeks ago in the chess.com Sub-Saturday event I played with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The time control was 5 minutes per player without increment. He is the 6th highest rated player in classical chess and 2nd highest rated player of the world ...
Yesterday I continued to solve Basic Tactics Puzzles. I used 2 hours for 110 puzzle. I was teaching 4 hours, 2 students from America and 1 from Slovenia. I would like to show a nice combination from World Champion Vladimir Kramnik against L...
Yesterday I continued to solve Basic Tactics Puzzles. I used 2 hours for 90 puzzle. I was teaching 4 hours, 3 students from America. I would like to show a nice combination from World Champion Tigran Petorian against Grandmaster Paul Keres: ...
I would like to calculate as good as Capablanca calculated. I studied 2 hours today and I was teaching 3 students, we analysed their games and studied how to win in the endgame with material advantage. Today I used 2 hours to solve 111 ...
