Hi everyone. I had seen this game before, as they were playing the Olympiad. I didn’t analyze it too much in that moment, but today that game came to my mind; I found it again and analyzed it with some engine. The lines here are spectacular,...
By Dana Mackenzie, Staff Writer There are only three words to describe the San Francisco Mechanics’ performance in the PRO Chess League last night: Danya! Danya! Danya! But if I were allowed three more words, they would be: Epic. Unb...
After the first 5 rounds of the February Titled Tuesday Tournament I had 2 points. The time control of the tourney was 3 minutes per player plus 2 seconds increment per move. In the 6 round I played with Slovenian International Grandmaster Matej...
At the end of January Vladimir Kramnik announced his retirement from chess at the age of 43. In an interview with Marina and Sergey Makarychev he stated the following: “I felt I could no longer give my all. I still, as before, have a r...
In this post, I will show some interesting tactics and ideas from a Grunfeld endgame that was played in the 2017 World Rapid Championship! Rather than present one really long game annotation, as I've done in previous posts, I have broken this on...
My 5th game in the February Titled Tuesday was against the Spanish FIDE-Master Luis Fernández Siles, who is the Director of Spanish Media and Growth | chess.com He played the Grunfeld setup against the Torre and played h...
Today (19th of February) is a birthday of legendary chess player David Ionovich Bronstein (1924-2006) Grandmaster (1950), Champion of USSR (1948, 1949), 4-times Olympic Champion (1952, 1954, 1956 і 1958). Bronstein is one of the greatest pl...
I have a web page on the best/greatest chess miniatures of all time. (http://www.ajschess.com/lifemasteraj/short_games.html) On that page is a list of the ten greatest chess miniatures of all time. But what is my favorite short game of che...
For today's blog post, I will do something a bit different, and try to explain the opening choice of Wei Yi in his first round of an open tournament (played live at the time of writing). Well, this is from Round 1 of the 2019 Aeroflot Open...so he...
When I first started Puzzle Rush ... I was averaging close to 25. I am 100% certain there were a LOT of easy mates and stuff, I do not seem to be seeing as much of that now. (It seems that there USED to be a lot of "mate-in-one-moves" and {easy} b...
Yesterday I finished to study the puzzles from the 1st book of puzzles from Iosif Slavin. It is a collections of basic checkmates of 1, 2, 3 or more moves. I solved 145 puzzles in 2 hours. I wish to improve my calculation skills to be as go...
Today we have the pleasure of introducing you to one heck of a great person, co-worker, husband, father and brother! Heeere's Josh! What is your name? Joshua Sampson Where do you live? Arizona, close to family. How long ha...
GM Mikhail Tal is one of the greatest players who ever lived. You cannot call yourself a true chess fan if you have never looked at one of his games! He set the world on fire in the late 1950's and early 1960's with his dazzling brilliance and ele...
Hello chess people. Which is the best move in chess history? In this post I am going to answer that question (well, I am going to try). Actually is too complicated, but today I bring a game with a great winning move, something different, something...
...play the best move! On a more concrete note, here's my puzzle for today! It is White to move in the position below: I'll post the solution in the comments in about 24 hours, good luck! If you're finding this puzzle difficult, f...
Yesterday I again solved checkmate puzzles for 2 hours. In the last 3 days I solved 760 checkmate puzzles. And it payed off!! I played a 5 minutes game with Hikaru Nakamura, which we both streamed. I played my usual queen's pawn open...
Happy weekend everyone! A short while ago my friend @Zeitnot17 posted the start of what promises to be a wonderful series here The name of Vladimir Makogonov came up there, which was sufficient for me to go back into his games and quickly - it...
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In February, following a modest showing in the Slow Chess League's 2018 Championship, I played one of my worst and one of my best games in the last few years. The first game ended prematurely when I failed to summon the strength to go on after a m...
Hello!This week was so intense and so crazy that I don’t even know where to start my game report. I made a streams, played in a blitz tournament and - of course - created my good games. If I am not too annoying with my talk, I will begin...
Have you ever blundered in a chess game...only to find out later that your 'blunder' was a great move? You are not the only one...even World Champions do that sometimes! 'But hang on, it's not really a "blunder" if ...
Yesterday I studied the 1st book of puzzles from Iosif Slavin. It is a collections of basic checkmates of 1, 2, 3 or more moves. I solved 260 puzzles in 2 hours. I wish to improve my calculation skills to be as good as the great Garry Kaspa...
All things considered, 2018 was a fantastic year for Chess.com! Our Alexa ranking shot up over 350 places, caused by an extra 1.8M registrations compared to 2017. We held more prize events than ever before, and just a few days ago the Live Chess t...
When we're going through games, especially at a fairly fast pace, we'll often see the game come to a sudden end and ask, 'why did they resign?' Often the answer is quite obvious after looking for a few seconds, but sometimes, the reason requires...
Yesterday I finished reading and solving the puzzles from the book Chess Tactics for the tournament player. I was very happy. Finishing a book was always a big challenge for me. Tempting to start a new one before finishing the other. I did it this...