Free Twitch simul at 8:00 am New York time on Sunday
Free Twitch simul at 8:00 on Sunday I invite you to join to the Free Twitch simul which will start on Sunday at 8:00 am New York, 1:00 pm London, 2:00 pm Berlin time.The time co...
My good games at this week #24
Good evening! Its UAArtur! And I have some good games for you this week. I got a good mood after them, and I wish that it was passed to you too. Ok. This week began the match of my country (Ukraine) against the Spanish national team f...
4 good victories
Hello chess.com. As you already know, you must work with your own games if you want to make progress in chess. As I was watching some of my games, I found these 4 positions where I played at a good level and I got some nice victories. I hope you e...
How to checkmate the dragon?
Today my opponent showed a great performance and checkmated my dragon. In the openings I overlooked a pawn. His pieces became so active, I needed to give up one pawn. I gave up the wrong pawn. He got a defended passed pawn. After winning the...
An Explosive Attack
What's up, guys and gals? I was browsing through a different chess website and came across this game played by two young amateurs. It may not be the most instructive content, though I think we can all enjoy. ...
Last Chance To Join GM Vishy Anand's Special Masterclas...
Five-time World Champion GM Viswanathan Anand is teaching a one-hour live online lesson on July 14th at Chess University. GM Anand will teach using his recent victories and help students better understand strategy, time management, and other top...
Top 5 attacks in From's Gambit
This is a great way to answer the first move 1.f2-f4, and, perhaps, the main reason why Bird Opening is rarely used now. From's Gambit is easy to learn and really dangerous for White. These are my words from the blog To...
Sicilian exchange sacrifice
Today I played with a strong ukrainen player. I played him a few days ago with the same colour. We played a draw in a long game. I analysed the opening deeply and found an improvment. I decided to play a6 in the alapin to prevent the Bb...
GM Viswanathan Anand Masterclass - July 14th, 2018
Five-time World Champion GM Viswanathan Anand returns to Chess University this weekend to teach a 1-hour live online chess masterclass. The class starts at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (PDT) on Saturday, July 14th, 2018. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP Sig...
Challenger's Corner: Stream Highlights and Big Reveals!
I have to admit, I'm starting to get into the hang of playing blitz and streaming simultaneously. After taking about a 100 point rating dive last month on one of my streams, I've somehow managed a 19/21 score (granted, against some lower rated pla...
Attacking and blockading pawns
Today I played with a german players who was rated 2001 in standard time control. This time I streamed both the game and the analysis. He played the english opening. I played the Botwinnik setup with c5 and e5 to gain space and control d4.&nbs...
Fantasy Chess League
Everybody knows of Fantasy Leagues, but I don't think I've heard of one dealing with chess! As I recently discovered, there actually is one here on chess.com - https://www.chess.com/club/fantasy-chess-league. The rules are pretty much the...
A Stylish Blitz Attack
I've mostly only had time for the random 1 minute game lately, so the few blitz games tonight felt almost slow. I'm not in serious chess shape right now, but I was able to play a very brutal and mostly accurate attack, so I thought I'd share. Enjo...
London system against the Dutch
Today I decided to increase my standard rating and to play 1 game every day. My first game was a quick one, my opponent resigned after 3 moves. Possible he needed to run somewhere. My next opponent played the Dutch defense and I decided to te...
Kasparov's Immortal Game
Hello. Once again I was looking into my databases, just trying to find a good game to learn as part of my chess training. And then, what a nice surprise, I found this. I had already seen it, but I think I can look at this one hundred times, and I ...
A Spoilt Masterpiece
A spoilt winning game hurts more than just a lost one. A spoilt masterpiece hurts like hell. I analyse one such game played by my good friend GM Neelotpal, his comments of the crucial moment included. Also a fantastic achievement by GM Tivia...
A.J.Mestel. Not Your Ordinary Grandmaster.
A few days ago, in a post here I mentioned Jonathan Mestel. As the name will mean less than nothing to most of you, I have quickly thrown some stuff together for you to enjoy. sadly real life stuff means that a full article is out of t...
Learn From The Masters: So's Blunder
What's up, guys and gals? Many of us know of the strides Rameshbabu Praggnanandhha has been making, and his hard-fought journey to the highest title in chess, International Grandmaster. He fell short of Karjakin's record for youngest...
My good games at this week #23
Hello! This is my game report about last week. My blitz rating continued to grow and today it reached the mark of 2169. This week fortune favors the brave. Add the coment if you like my games!
Bullettime
Hello everyone. Today I come with another bullet game. As you may know, I enjoy a lot playing fast games (blitz and bullet). I do not play it more often because my internet connection is not ideal to do that. I just like to analyze it with the e...
London System vs. the Benoni: 3. d5
Last week we started looking at how White can respond to the Benoni move 1. d4, Nf6 2. Bf4, c5 with 3. e3 and 3. dxe5. This week I'll look at the main recommendation, 3. d5, and try to come to some conclusions (at least for myself) as to which is ...
Presentation of new e-book about endgames
I'm happy to announce that second part of my series Improving the Endgame Technique is already available on Amazon. In near future it will be also available on ForwardChess app (if you do not have this app on your electronic device I strongly reco...
Kenya, Part 1
[Note: This is a cross-post from my blog at www.davidsmerdon.com on my reflections in Kenya. Part 1 isn't about chess.] “Have you been to Africa before?” asked my taxi driver as we left the airport. “Yes,” I ...
Kasparov’s last game
Hello my chess friends. Have you seen Kasparov’s last game before his official retirement? Well, I was looking at my database, and I found it. This is a historical game. A very interesting game too. I was a child when it happened, it was Lin...
The best game of June
Hi, there! So, we have four different openings.We have four players of different strengths.And we have four games.Choose one now. Write, please, what game you like more? Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 W...