Introduction: How do you defend a bad chess position? In chess, you will inevitably reach positions where you are worse. Sometimes slightly worse, sometimes clearly under pressure, and sometimes almost strategically lost. But “worse positio...
Chess does not begin with thinking. It begins with seeing. Before a variation is calculated or a plan is formed, something must first enter awareness. The quality of a decision is therefore limited not only by intelligence or knowledge, but by th...
Most people come to chess believing it is a search for the best move. At first, this feels self evident. The game unfolds step by step, one decision after another. We learn openings, calculate variations, train tactical vision, and review our mist...
Your playing strength is determined by your thinking patterns Most chess players believe that playing strength comes from opening knowledge, tactical skill, or endgame technique. In reality, however, the quality of your games is determined far mor...
“Improve your worst piece” is one of the most common pieces of chess advice, and in many positions it is absolutely useful. But I think many players run into problems when they apply it automatically, without really checking what the p...
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 ...
