Here's a thing of beauty from this past week's Dojo Endgame tournament. (In the endgame tournaments, every game starts from the same endgame position, which none of the players know in advance. Through several rounds of playing it from both sides,...
Quick and simple today - I have used up all my time looking at the games! Replying to a comment last time round, I grabbed my copy of the Tournament Book of the unofficial Olympiad played in Munich in 1936. There is one game from that tourname...
Winning at chess is fun. I’d argue that there are few other feelings better than defeating an opponent, whether it be by a swift, beautiful checkmate, or by a long, grind-it-out type of match. All of the Top Grandmasters, many of...
"It seems to me that this is the most beautiful game of any that I have played." - Rashid Nezhmetdinov "I must have beaten him a dozen times, but I would trade them all for this one game." - Lev Polugaevsky Rashid Nezhmetdinov played many bril...
Hello fellow chess players!I recently uploaded a new free training video, called 'How I Became A FIDE Master'!In the video below, you're going to learn:- What I did to get to the 'baseline' level of 2200+ FIDE; - How I systematically improved my...
In the 2nd round I played with the Hungarian International Grandmaster Zoltan Varga I played the classical Sicilian and he replied wih 6.f3 a less popular line which leads to English attack type positions. I pushed my a-pawn to a7-a5-a4 to at...
On this Women's Day, we thought of acquainting you all with the accomplishments of top ten Indian women players. The idea is to give you a chance to test your tactics and also brief you with the accomplishments of these champions. In ad...
Perhaps you have heard about “torturing” another player in chess and wonder: How is it possible to torture anyone in a board game?! There are several ways to “torture” one’s opponent in a match, 2 common examples of...
Let's assume you are doing the right thing: you play slow games and after every game, you take a moment to look at the critical moments of the game and how you could have improved your opening play. Are you becoming better? Are you no longer repea...
In the 1st round I played against Slovakian Grandmaster Milan Pacher. I played the London system. He replied with the e6, Bd6, Qc7 setup. In my last tournament game in that system I got a winning position, but lost in the time-trouble. ...
One of my final preparation game against a very strong Russian young international master, where I defended against his attack and counter-attacked on the queenside. Sacrificed my queen and won at the end: Today at 2:00 pm local time, 8:...
After a couple weeks with the kids home from school, I finally had time to review all the wonderful games from the ChessDojo February MEGARAPID Championship, which made for a truly delightful stream. Today I would like to announce and appreciate a...
Dear friends of chess.com receive a cordial greeting and thanks for the follow-up and welcome they always give to our articles, today I will be telling you about a training based on the perspectives to be achieved. One of the most common erro...
it is said that Petrosian loved Nimzowitsch's "My System" so much, he used to sleep with the book under his pillow, and could recite it by heart! Recently I purchased an excellent book by Tibor Karolyi, "Petrosian Year by Year, Vol. I (1942-1962...
The interzonal tournament, Zurich 1953, may be the most famous chess tournament of all time (PogChamps excluded...). It's fame is grounded in the thrilling and influential chess games played there, but even more so in the writing about the tournam...
If playing chess has taught me anything, it's that with hard work and determination, anything is possible. It wasn't an easy journey, but after 6 years of perseverance, I achieved my National Master Title. Throughout my short chess career, I have ...
I played a 100 boards simul in 2011 and I would like to show you 3 tactics from those games and a game where we had a strategical battle in the French defense. I was able to get a knight versus bad bishop position, but more important was the...
Hey ChessKids, Happy March! We're gearing up for some great events at ChessKid, especially for all the little Beth Harmons out there. Read on to find out what's been going on in the ChessKid universe: ChessKid USA Girls and Women's...
Dear Chess Friends! Since our last Simul you learned several important topics: How to Weaken Enemy Pawn Structure Attack on the Most Secured Spot Attack with the Edge Pawn Endgame Fundamentals And now it’s your chance to demonstr...
One of these odd matches – like Botvinnik-Smyslov (1958) or Botvinnik-Tal (1961) – that’s not really reflective of the contestants’ playing strength. Janowski sent his announcement of the match from Monte Carlo, which was &...
Road to NM: The Trials and Tribulations of Being an Improving Chess Player Hey everyone! Today I thought that I’d get a little bit more personal with my writing and talk about my chess journey. I started playing chess 3 years ago w...
This week's opening is the Cambridge Springs, a defense to the Queen's Gambit. Here are some top-level games with the opening to give you a few ideas to get started on this opening. Practice will be of great value as well, leading into Sunday's th...
When we were children and did not have toys to play with, imagination took center stage. We indeed need to touch, explore and look, but when this resource is not available, the mind leads us to experience it through illusion. In the popular N...
Dear Chess Friends! I am looking for the author of chess texts to join my team and I decided to take a closer look at like-minded people among my followers! If you know the names of Carlsen and Nakamura, Morphy and Capablanca, you know where L...
The great master Ossip Bernstein had a long and distinguished chess career with numerous international successes in the years between 1900 and 1910, but perhaps his greatest game and one of his greatest successes came as late as 1954, when the 72-...