On the 4th training day, when I solved puzzles to improve my calculation skills to reach the Grandmaster title. It was a long session. I used 153 minutes to solve 45 puzzles. I enjoyed the stream, nice to have friends around when I am doing my tac...
Today I solved 23 puzzles in 60 minutes. Yesterday I have no time for tactics, so I was happy to make it today. The most important thing today was the tourney of one of my student who finished a strong tournament with 5 out of 9 and won ar...
Today I solved 24 puzzles in 64 minutes. This was a bit slower than yesterday. Today I did more chat on the stream while solving the puzzles. I also missed a positional one: You can follow my performance in this document: https://docs.goo...
I decided to start my training to reach the Grandmaster title. My current FIDE rating is 2291. I got the International Master title 21 years ago when my rating was 2415. I need to reach 2500 and get 3 grandmaster norm for the Grandmaster title. ...
In the classical e6 variation against the London system, black's light-squared bishop may appear as a bad bishop if the knights are exchanged on e5 and on e4 and the dark-squared bishops were exchanged. What is the winning plan for white...
In the hyper-accelerated dragon, black develops his dragon bishop quickly, without the d7-d6 pawn move, because he wants to challenge the white center with d7-d5. One of the typical white mistakes is to capture the c6 knight because it allows bl...
I invite you to play with me in an online simul on the LIVE server in the following times on Sunday 5th August: 7:00 am PDT 8:00 am MDT 9:00 am CDT 10:00 am EDT 3:00 pm London time 4:00 pm Central European time 7:30 pm Indi...
Would you like to sacrifice material for activity or would you like to accept the sacrifice and defend and win in the endgame? Timing is everything. In my 15 minutes game yesterday, I sacrificed a pawn to be able to penetrate to the 2nd rank ...
Exchange sacrifices are always romantic. Especially when you attack the king or when you have big positional pressure in the middlegame. Example the pair of bishops in open positions have nearly enough compensation for a rook and knight. ...
The accelerated dragon is a very good attacking weapon when white plays similar ideas like when he plays against the normal dragon, 4.Nc3 with Be3, Bc4 ideas or Nb3 with Be2 and short castle. The real challenge of the accelerated and the...
The situation of our pawns shows how much territory, space we have. If we gain space, then our pieces will have more room to maneuver or change directions quickly. When we have more pawns in one part of the board, there we want to advance the...
I an International Master Attila Turzo and invite you to play with me a 30 minutes game with 30 seconds increment. I am on the LIVE server now and you can send me a challenge, please make it 30 30 unrated. You can also watch to LIVE commentary of ...
In the closed variation of the sicilian defense white is ready to attack on the kingside by advancing his pawns as f2-f4-f5, g2-g3-g4-g5, h2-h4, Black is ready to counter-attack on the queenside by b7-b5-b4, a7-a5-a4. The art is to stop the o...
When You have a lost position materially or positionally, then you need to try to generate counterplay. Most of the time an attack against the king or at least against some pawns and you need to try to make moves, which gives the biggest challenge...
Create a passed pawn, activate your king to block the opponent's and support your own passed pawn. This is the key idea to win a pawn endgame. The big question is timing, Better to block the pawns first or creating my passed pawn? Should I go to s...
What are the most important ingredients for a good knight endgame? You need a powerful knight which in the best case blocks the opponent's passed pawn and help its own passed pawn. You need an active king to capture the opponents pawns and help yo...
The bogo-indian is an ideal defense if you want to get a solid position against a strong opponent, but hard to play for a win against a weaker opponent. He may block the position and exchange pieces for the draw. Sometimes in a very long game the ...
Free Twitch simul at 9:00 am on Sunday I am international Master Attila Turzo from Hungary and I invite you to join to the Free Twitch simul which will start on Sunday a...
When white plays the London system against the King's indian defense, then his king's position can be safer than in the usual king's indian lines, because of his dark square bishop joins the defense. Today I played a game against a USCF Candi...
Today's first game was again against a computer assisted user, after the game, the chess.com staff marked the opponent as computer user. I made a mistake, I allowed him to get the a-file and under the pressure instead of the passive defense I tr...
My opponent played again a strange opening after yesterday 1.e4 c5 2.Nh3. He played e6,d6,c6,f6,g6. We played a game in this opening around 1 week ago. In that game I got an advantage, but it ended as a draw. Yesterday I analysed all 3 games I p...
2. Nh3 Is that a joke? I felt I should have a fine position againsg that move, but after around 15 moves I found myself under the pressure and attack against my king. I played too early f7-f5. He did not find the nice Bxh6 sacrifice to capitalise ...
My opponent played very well today the old-benoni, so after the game I decided to dive into it and spent aorund 2 hours to find an advantage for white. Looks like the lines with Bb5 and then dxe6 may give a small edge or playing Ng1-e2-g3 manover ...
Free Twitch simul at 8:00 on Sunday I invite you to join to the Free Twitch simul which will start on Sunday at 8:00 am New York, 1:00 pm London, 2:00 pm Berlin time.The time co...
