It is a common fallacy to believe that the great Masters of the past did not play chess well....a myopic approach, to say the least. The games of the great Masters can serve as a great source of inspiration and actual knowledge.....the final pos...
Dear Chess Friends! I'm excited to share highlights from my recent workshop "Pawn Wedge in the Center", where we explored how to leverage this powerful strategic weapon. Whether you play closed openings or dynamic systems, understanding pawn wed...
*Investbanka* tournament in Belgrade, The Capital of Serbia, *Yugoslavia* at a time, in 1989, been the most attractive gathering of chess players that year. World Champion Kasparov arrived with the specific goal - to achieve rating...
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There is a place in chess where all masks fall. Opening theory dissolves, tactical fireworks fade away, and what remains is the bare essence of the game: the endgame. It is there that a player reveals the depth of their understanding, where memory...
#senserobot #chessrobot #firstlook I'm very excited to be reviewing the SenseRobot Chess - this is a very very cool chess robot from a manufacturer in China that makes use of a very high quality robot arm and gripper (the soft, barely audi...
SRM-A and BITS Pilani Hyderabad (Martial Knights-A) are leading the 2025 India College Chess Championship Autumn Season (ICCL). Teams VIT A and SRCC are currently in third and fourth places, respectively. Standings after Round 4 | Division...
It was a chess-filled Labor Day weekend here in Charlotte, North Carolina, as the Charlotte Chess Center hosted two FIDE-rated events: the Southeastern FIDE Championship and the Labor Day Norm Invitational! Both tournaments took place at the Sou...
2025 was an incredible year for the Maia Chess Festival, held in Maia from August 21 to 30, with an ever-growing presence of streamers. Although the main event took place in Maia, the festival traditionally kicks off in Portugal’s second-l...
I wanted to cancel his membership.Who could have guessed it would lead me to my future investor, my Godfather… and that the story would later be published in Inc. Magazine? I didn’t plan any of this. I just did what felt right...
Hey Impressive Chessers! As a chess coach I get asked lots of questions and get to hear my student comment about chess improvement. Some memorable ones that apply to this blog are: "I heard chess is 99% tactics, should I just do tactic puzzl...
Christoph von Puttkamer (né Kuberczyk) first discovered his coaching spark around the age of 14 or 15, when he stepped in to lead his high school chess club in Hamburg, Germany. Not long after, he obtained an official coaching license an...
Dear chess friends,I am looking for three new private students rated 2000+ FIDE! As part of this launch, I have released a free 1-hour training video, where I present some of my material specifically tailored for 2000+ FIDE players. Enjoy:For...
David Bronstein - One of the Greatest Attackers in Chess History (Part 2)Learning to Attack through Bronstein’s Games In the opening installment of this series, part 1, we examined three games in which David Bronstein’s opponents neg...
Dear Chess Friends! I'm excited to share highlights from my recent workshop "Opening Files", where we explored how to transform closed positions into dynamic battles through strategic file-opening. Whether you're a positional player or a tactica...
#noobvsnoob #unplugged #jazz #casual #scandinavian Click to subscribe to my YouTube channel! CHESS UNPLUGGED | Sometimes, I just like to unwind by not thinking too hard, play a couple of quick casual unrated games, whi...
This blog post part two of a four-part series of my journey to the National Master title. If you haven't read part one yet, then I suggest starting here. The gap between a 2190 and a 2200 is greater than the gap between a 2150 and a 2190. ...
What are the greatest periods of dominance in chess history? Morphy's 1858 European tour; Lasker from 1907-1909; Capablanca in his six-year stretch without a loss; Tal's run to the world championship; Fischer from 1970-1972; Kasparov in the late '...
Greetings everyone! After a lengthy hiatus spanning 2.5 years without writing, I am happy to return with my first blog as a grandmaster. Despite my protracted absence from the blogsphere, I did not stop consuming knowledge from books (which I felt...
Back in the Ring: My Inaugural Post as a Chess.com Top Blogger Well, this is new. I get to type the words “Top Blogger” next to my name, and it feels a bit surreal. Thank you to Chess.com, the Blog Champs community, and to all of my f...
This is probably the least interesting match of the tournament. I'm going to break the sequence a little here, partially because my upcoming obligations will take up a lot of my time, partially because I really want to get this one out of the...
In the complex universe of endgames, the rook pawn occupies a contradictory place. Its geometric limitation is evident: being confined to the “a” or “h” file drastically reduces its maneuvering spectrum, and in many cases i...
Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. - Jim Rohn Welcome everybody, to another Over-The-Board, edition of the Osaka Papers. Most chess players are faced with one inevitable and burning question: "When will I get better?"....
Kia ora, dear friends! Welcome to my 50th post! You read that correctly. I know it’s almost unbelievable that I have already written so many, but it's true! Of course, I would like to celebrate this milestone with my readers. After all, it...
Your goal in chess is not to mate the enemy king but to avoid being mated first. Take the most famous example: according to the Lichess database, over 341,000 games allowed the simple Qf7# mate. The real number across history is probably 100 tim...
