“The biggest growth and joy in chess occurs when a student has a balance of performance, experience, skill set and a calm, yet competitive mental state.” Coach Sloan Setidkurnia (pronounced Se-Ti-a-di-kur-ni-a) has been part...
Afternoon everyone. My few regular followers will know that I have been doing some heavy reading of late. so I took time out to do what I love - looking at a mass of forgotten games. The wonderful britbase has recently posted a pgn of the game...
Hello and welcome to my new blog! This will be the second episode of the series I started last month. The idea is to discover what was happening in the chess scene during the periods of important events and transformations that changed the histo...
Here is a solid, mid-week exercise from Late Titled Tuesday yesterday. https://masterchess.net/so/99PRH_tSi?languageTag=en Join The Master Chess Network for free today! https://www.masterchess.net/
Free yourself from the result. Belal Muhammad, UFC Champion. Welcome everybody to another, free yourself from fear, self-doubt and stressing over the result, edition of the Osaka Papers. The Japan Chess Championship 2025 took place in To...
That position comes from the game Aronian - Carlsen. As you can see, Black has a huge material advantage (+8), although White has some counterplay. In this position, there are 3 legal moves for Black:1. one is winning,2. one leads to a draw,3. o...
Shortly after winning the World Championship title in Singapore in 2024, newly-crowned Gukesh played a casual game with AI-generated pieces. In his first game after becoming World Champion, Gukesh played 1.b3, and proclaimed “for Adhiban!...
Dear Chess Friends! Tactical combinations are more difficult to execute in modern chess than they were previously. Players constantly practice solving tactical puzzles and have become skilled at detecting tactical threats. As a result, it's crit...
Through two weeks of the North American Corporate Chess League's new season, very little is decided. Out of the 45 teams participating, almost half the field is within three points of first place! Meta and Symetra are currently tied for first at 1...
#blitzchesschat #interview #jaenischgambit Welcome to the first video of this new series, Blitz Chess Chats! Here, I speak to medical academics and researchers about their field of expertise and program of research… and we start ...
I've been reading a lot about blindfold chess recently, mostly because I'm fascinated by the accomplishments of great blindfold players. I consider myself to be downright mediocre in terms of my ability to visualize positions and calculate, so fin...
#channelnews I’m super excited to announce that my YouTube channel has just crossed over 4,000 subscribers! Wow! Thank you to all my subscribers of my channel, and regular readers of my blog! I thought that I would give a qui...
In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...
One of the tricky things about chess is that there are tons of move orders to deal with. You might feel comfortable with 1...e5 against the English, but what happens if White plays 1.Nf3? You might like the Benko Gambit, but you're only going to g...
April might have been a chilled month when it comes to chess activities here in Andorra, but that doesn’t mean our players have been taking a break. The Easter period is packed with international tournaments, and as always, our players were ...
Hello everyone, welcome back to another blog post. Today, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on chess—and why I’ve decided to step away from the game.Introduction: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ First, I should st...
#travel #chessnutgo #vienna 🔥 Chessnut Store (Affiliate Link): https://www.chessnutech.com?sca_ref=4294516.IoYAy1V8Gt🔥 Or use my coupon code for a discount on checkout: CHESSNOOB64 Earlier in the week, I had a work trip to Melb...
In my piece on Vidmar for “Chess in the 1910s,” I argued that Vidmar may well be the most underestimated player in chess history. He confirms that somewhat whimsical status with his performance in the 1920s — by my metric (head-t...
My recent conversation with Levon Aronian was so profound that I went back to rewatch the episode and reflect on some of his concepts and ideas. Then, just like I do with books, courses, or podcasts, I wrote down the key insights I took from Lev...
A Different Kind of Blog Post: The First Edition of the "Make Them Cry" Tournament (a friendly competition among my students) Today’s post is going to be a little different. Instead of the usual content, I want to share the story of a spec...
This blog post is written by WIM Luciana Morales, Social Media and Community Manager at Chessable. I’m going to keep it real – I never read IM Jeremy Silman’s books when I was learning. My own path was shaped by differ...
Dear Chess Friends! Opportunities for decisive strikes frequently occur during chess games. Missing these moments can have a significant impact on the outcome. This concept, known as the "Sudden Attack," is not only powerful, but it can occur at...
Last week, the eleventh season of the North American Corporate Chess League kicked off, with the games being played right here on chess.com! A grand total of 45 teams competed in three rounds of online rapid chess on Thursday evening, representing...
Good afternoon everyone. WARNING! This will be a long blog - albeit a mere pin prick of the 460+ pages of the book being looked at, so normal advice - pop in and out when you have the time. Hopefully it will be worth the time spent. Before I g...
Happy Cinco de Mayo, Impressive Chessers! In honor of Cinco de Mayo, I thought it would be appropriate to celebrate an impressive figure in chess history. The first Mexican Grandmaster (GM): Carlos Torre Repetto. While Torre wasn’t officia...
