Dear Chess.com TV Viewers, This week, I showed the famos double bishop sacrifice game Lasker vs Bauer played in 1889, but I did not tell the viewers the names of the players. The first persont to recognize this classic game was supposed t...
Dear Chess.com TV Viewers, I started this weeks YGA just a couple of hours before I started playing the Metropolitan Chess Closed GM tournament. Since I had to do this one using the internet connection in a hotel, there were some issues...
Dear Chess.com TV Viewers, This week we started things off with this 2 move puzzle that was quite tricky The answer was 1.Ra1+ Qa1 2.Rb7! LaurentS was the first one to solve it, but since he was not able to stay on for the analysis ...
Dear Chess.com TV Viewers, This week Nik was the chosen person for the game analysis. The following game was analyzed. Nic played the Icelandic gambit from black, the game was very interesting as it moves towards the middle game. There were...
Dear Chess.com TV Viewers, Here are the details of the YGA on the 18th of April, 2013. 'Pingo' was selected for the game analysis and the following game was analyzed. I mentioned this during the analysis, but I will stress it again, try...
About five years ago, one of my most favorite and one of my most difficult student asked me a casual question over a cup of coffee in Starbucks. “Why is it Ok for people to agree on draws in chess before the start of a game, isn't that match fixin...
It is high time that I write a blog about piracy as I have had countless discussions with my friends and family regarding this topic and it is definitely worth sharing with the world. The word 'piracy' really does not mean much to most people ...
After a good night's sleep I made sure that all the rooms got at least two wakeup calls the next morning. I went down to have breakfast around 9.30 am and half the team had already finished their breakfast while the remaining decided to skip it. T...
I was hopping around the spectators area in the tournament hall like a mad frog in total anxiety as Soumya Swaminathan, the only medal aspirant for the Indian team, was finishing her penultimate (12th)round game against the Peruvian WIM Cori Tello...
If you are a parent with two kids and one of them is going through tremendous success while the other is just downright depressed? What do you do? Very delicate aint it? I guess only a parent will be able to answer this, but I feel I am in a simil...
When a Roger Federer set foot onto the pale green grass in the Wimbledon this year, nothing less than the championship was expected from him. When a Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar walks into the cricket ground with his cricket bat nothing less than a cen...
It was 2 pm in the afternoon and as always I was packing my bags in the last minute to catch a flight at 5.30 in the evening. For some reason it has become extremely difficult for me not to finish any task before its ultimate deadline in my life. ...
It has been a while since I blogged, it is probably because I am busy training a lot of chess and playing many tournaments, Naahhhh.... It is because I am just lazy! I have realized my passion for writing or to be precise, express myself. There ha...
Barcelona is a very nice place to stay with plenty of things to do. For the last couple of weeks we have been engaging ourselves in different leisurely activities here ranging from swimming in some of the best beaches to cooking, napping and ofcou...
After months of planning and endless conference calls we (2 Grand Masters and 2 International Masters) decided to make this Eurotrip happen. For those who have an American passport or a European union passport, it will be hard to understand why so...
