Chess is like a battlefield with endless possibilities, yet somehow, the best players can see patterns that lead them to victory. How do they do it? They’ve built something like a mental database of patterns, which they access without e...
Chess Mastery Series – Episode 2: The Art of Tactical Sacrifices Hi All! Welcome back to another blog. Today, we will be diving into Tactical Sacrifices—one of the most thrilling weapons in a chess player’s arsenal. Sacrif...
This blog is a celebration that leverages an outstanding concept of GMs Nielsen and Gustafsson (both of whom are also popular chessable.com authors) but offers my unique take. The two GMs produced videos and multiple lessons regarding their top 50...
April Fools! This post is just so I can get a badge🤪. Oh, wait. That's the people on the "All Blogs" page who just learned that if they post ten times, they'll earn a weightless and coinless merit badge.🤣 Plus, I post at the end of the month to ...
Hello, guys! Welcome to another blog! I will not make any mystery regarding what the topic is because it's already been written up there, but would you like to know why I decided to write about it and where the idea came from? Okay, I can't kn...
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Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning four-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana is the third-highest-rated player in history. Born in Miami t...
Hi! We dress up in our pyjamas and like punching our friends. - Iain Abernethy We chess-players are a very strange lot. We have a wooden board of 64 squares with 32 pieces divided into two equal teams of 16, and we're scarred for life. W...
Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 1...
There are moments in history when a single spark lights a fire so fierce that it changes the course of a nation. For Indian chess, that spark was Viswanathan Anand. In the late 1980s, while the world chess elite belonged almost entirely to Europ...
This blog is a celebration that leverages an outstanding concept of GMs Nielsen and Gustafsson (both of whom are also popular chessable.com authors) but offers my unique take. The two GMs produced videos and multiple lessons regarding their top 50...
One of the most powerful tools at your disposal for improving as a chess player is game analysis. It’s not just about reviewing moves after the game—it's about understanding why things went right (or wrong) and learning from every deci...
Welcome back to everyone's favourite show: Who wants to be a chessllionaire? Today our contestant Andy Swer (that's you) is here to try to win the million euros. I know many of you know the rules because you don't miss a single one of our shows,...
This blog is a celebration that leverages an outstanding concept of GMs Nielsen and Gustafsson (both of whom are also popular chessable.com authors) but offers my unique take. The two GMs produced videos and multiple lessons regarding their top 50...
My new Chessable course on the Semi-Slav is coming out soon. Along with my course for White on the Reti, and my course for Black against 1. e4 with the Nimzowitsch Sicilian, it will complete a full repertoire for both colors. This time I deci...
For many, the path to improvement in chess seems straightforward: keep playing, keep pushing through the losses, and eventually, the wins will come. The hope is that, over time, you'll experience a “walkover” — a sudden, seamless...
Gennady Sosonko has — as one would expect from him — a beautiful chapter on Grigory Levenfish in his Russian Silhouettes. Levenfish was the product of the first great wave of Russian chess — a wave that smashed against World War ...
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What’s the first thing you connect with the name Garry Kasparov? Probably the words World Champion come to mind, images of his epic battles against Anatoly Karpov, his brilliant immortal game against Topalov or his legendary match against...
Issue No 254/14/2025 “There’s more to life than chess… and there’s more to chess than life.” ~Zedwaldo Sponsored by Chess.com [please be paitent, I'm uploading more stuff...] Prologue My plan was to post so...
Whenever we start a new task or start walking towards a aim the goal and results does not matter most its the journey and company one remembers About this Blog- This blog will cover about how i started my chess journey and how did i cross ...
This blog is a celebration that leverages an outstanding concept of GMs Nielsen and Gustafsson (both of whom are also popular chessable.com authors) but offers my unique take. The two GMs produced videos and multiple lessons regarding their top 50...
