#1000ELO #bloglovers #blogchamps #chess-for-me #the-art-of-war #mattoscacco #blitzstream #fianchetto #winning-feeling #checkmate-or-die #suggestions #diary #my-progress Hi! I spent Saturday at home, checking blogs and stuff, and I alread...
Draws get a famously unfair bad rap in chess. As is often noted, a perfectly played game of chess is a draw. Still, there are certainly draws that can be dry, unsymmetric, and uninteresting. It's also true that draws have a dramatic disadvantage i...
Foolish Brilliance I've been playing some more rapid games recently to try and get back some rating. In the process, I've had some wacky games that I'm going to share with you guys. Game 1 In the first game, I was playing with the white piec...
Why is Nick Saban, the well-known American college football coach, playing chess with a duck (yes, it’s a duck, not a goose) in a TV commercial? Does the coach even know how to play chess (much less the duck)? More seriously, why are TV comm...
ONLY PAWN - https://youtu.be/HfUhTU8cmXw ONLY BISHOP - https://youtu.be/uHbY77CUKDA ONLY KNIGHT - https://youtu.be/mjNDkVPvZpE ONLY a Queen - https://youtu.be/IemfMqIr5D0 ONLY ROOK - https://youtu.be/U1hdrq-NLaQ
Relaxing in Kansas with Timur before helping with chess camp in Oklahoma! Hi! I have some openings available for new students. Feel free to message me about you and your chess goals, and we'll go from there. The first lesson is on the house -...
ONLY PAWN - https://youtu.be/HfUhTU8cmXw ONLY BISHOP - https://youtu.be/uHbY77CUKDA ONLY KNIGHT - https://youtu.be/mjNDkVPvZpE ONLY a Queen - https://youtu.be/IemfMqIr5D0 ONLY ROOK - https://youtu.be/U1hdrq-NLaQ
Este logro lo obtuve por primera vez, el año pasado (2021) con el Setup Old Standard, y ahora nuevamente este año (2022) se logra llegar a 2700 ELO, con Setup Omatamix New Standard; lo cual me deja muy feliz, y con muchas ganas de lo...
Johannes Zukertort was a protege of Wilhelm Steinitz, but for some time it seems as though he might surpass his mentor. The collegial rivalry between the two culminated in the first ever World Chess Championship in 1886. Zukertort could not have s...
#1000ELO #club #chessfactor #online-courses #trapped-pieces #philidor #queens-gambit #diary #my-progress #solo-chess #ambassador #topbloggers Hi all! What happened in the last days? CLUB TOURNAMENTI have been to a club last Wednesday, probab...
In my previous post, where I wrote about how chess is a lost art, I presented a blitz chess game that I played in order to illustrate how exactly it was artful and that it was the exception to the rule so to speak in that most other matches nowada...
Last week the "Stein's memorial" was over (rapid, 10 min + 5 sec). The line-up was really decent - many national CMs as well as NMs + 1 FM + 1 IM + 1GM (average rating of top 10 players - 2328). This tournament was extremely interesting for...
ONLY KNIGHT - https://youtu.be/mjNDkVPvZpE ONLY a Queen - https://youtu.be/IemfMqIr5D0 ONLY ROOK - https://youtu.be/U1hdrq-NLaQ
Like many, if not most chess players, I have admired Tal and his wonderful games and combinations. His ability to "open up" a closed position seemed like magic to me! No wonder people nicknamed him "The Magician from Riga". Here is an example of h...
Hello there, welcome to the Lightning Reports! Way back in January, I introduced a new blog idea when I questioned several non-chess players about chess for the first time. 4 months later, I did it again. And now, given how many people have asked ...
Can I Beat Martin Bot With ONLY a Queen? - https://youtu.be/IemfMqIr5D0
Hey ChessKids and fellow educators! We're excited to announce that we will be helping school libraries and media centers start a chess club with ChessKid's starter kit! ChessKid's Library Chess Club Initiative aims to introduce the game and bene...
The 'action' in chess occurs on the chess board. There players put themselves into the game and try to gain a victorious outcome. But there are other dimensions to chess besides what occurs on the board; and the records of games that are p...
Once you’ve mastered the basics of chess, and you’re confident in your knowledge of the intermediate aspects of the game – it’s time to make your move in mastering the advanced chess concepts. Note that these are concepts t...
One of the most popular pop icons of all time, Madonna, is known to be a big chess fan. Her chess coach was the Scottish chess champion Alan Norris. There are even sources citing that she was rated above 2000. She has featured chess in some ...