We spend our time and attention trying to reach a great position where we've got the game all but won. Why bother trying to get a winning position unless we're able to recognize it and are willing to invest the additional effort to find the righ...
Dear Chess Friends! I’m absolutely sure you know that positions with bishops of opposite color have so many drawing tendencies. If both sides locate their pawns on squares of their bishop’s color then it’s quite difficult to fi...
GM Judit Polgar combined forces with ChessKid.com earlier this fall in an attempt to break the world record for "Largest Online Chess Tournament." Part of the prizes for tournament winners included a blitz game against her! Part one, which ...
Tuesday, November 19th marked the start of the 1st round of the World Champions Tournament at the Selfoss Chess Festival in Iceland. The tournament has a unique lineup where everybody in this 10 player round-robin is a former World Champion in the...
Name a chess player who... was born in 1944 died in 2008 at the age of 64 peaked spectacularly in the 1970s and left chess in the same decade battled improperly treated mental illness for the last decades of his life You would be almost ...
After the conclusion of the month-long qualifying tournaments on ChessKid, which were part of a join effort with Judit Polgar to set the record for World's Largest Online Chess Tournament, the finals were also held on ChessKid's live server. And...
The unique part about these two variants that I invented is that I got both the ideas while playing National U-25 tournament. Chesspionage in 2019 and Pokerchess in 2018. I shared the variant with a few of my friends and they liked the idea and as...
Dear Chess Friends!This is the recording from the webinar that I conducted on Sunday (17th November). I decided to publish it here, because some of you missed this webinar, but I'm absolutely sure that it was a helpful material and knowledge of th...
Hi people who love a game where pawns are the soul. I keep training hard to play Carlos Torre Memorial in December. As I was solving studies in last days, I found 6 that I thought they really deserve to be shared, and that’s what this post i...
See part 1, HERE. See part 2, HERE. See part 3, HERE. Welcome to the final part of our four-part series on the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit. To remind you, we're looking for a Black response that gives you the "most bang for your buck" and this...
In 1957, Tal won his first Soviet Chess Championship. In the process, he won multiple brilliancies, including the following one against future-GM Gurgenidze. Tal employs his trusty Benoni Defense, an opening he nearly invented at the top-level, ...
"...I was terrified to notice that the intended defense (...) does "not quite" work in view of ... mate in one!" - Former World Champion Mikhail Tal (Tal-Botvinnik 1960, Game 16) Once again, we continue with our new BOOK OF THE WEEK promotion ...
Chess friendship between Ukraine and Iceland has very deep roots. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, chess magician GM David Bronstein (born in Ukraine, became a chess master in Kyiv, 1939) celebrated his 50th and 70th jubilee in Iceland in the circle o...
I write this in the deserted Holiday Village Hotel where yesterday the European Club Cup finished. I am the last man standing as all the participants have left and the whole hotel resort looks like a ghost town. I was the captain of the women te...
Many chess players are intimidated by long opening variations. They resign themselves to playing the Colle System their whole life, or constantly end up in middlegames where they "don't know what to do" (because they've never learned their opening...
Before we begin! I started putting this all together some time ago. Since then I have been lucky enough to make contact with Malcom Barker himself - a wonderful man. He has been kind enough to go to a great deal of time and trouble to provide me...
Many thanks to the http://Chess.com team and FM Mike Klein for this interesting and exciting event!!! It was fascinatingly and fun!!! ☺☺☺ https://www.twitch.tv/videos/508706815
I first saw Paul Morphy's Opera Game as a young aspiring chess player avidly devouring chess books from the library and learning that this game was deeper than I imagined - MUCH deeper. I'm not entirely sure which book first presented the game (ma...
This is probably one of the shortest articles that you will read about chess but also, in my opinion, one of the most important. If you start following only those two principles described below - you will be better in endgames than 80% of chess pl...
As I already said in my last post, I am currently in Ulcinj, Montenegro, for the European Club Cup. I am coaching the Italian women team of Caissa Pentole Agnelli, just like last year. So far the tournament is going turbulently for us, we have w...
Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest! We had many excellent submissions . Many people found 5 or 6 of the references, including some of the sneakier ones! I'm glad to see so many Tal fans out there But, we do have a cl...
Hey there, Stacia here and I wanted to share another recent training game I played on our favorite chess site. I'm currently on a mission! I have set an ambitious to goal to reach 1700 by the end of the year. I am curren...
I have already posted Mikhail Tal's last game with annotations from Alexei Shirov, but recently, I came across a blog post by Tal's opponent, Vladimir Akopian. He sheds some more light on the situation and analyzes the game himself. An Epis...
Many thanks to the Chess.com team and FM Mike Klein for this interesting event!It was very exciting and fun for me! Stream link:https://www.twitch.tv/videos/507803264
This story was told by Yakov Damsky in his 2000 book, The Century of Chess. Damsky was a chess master, who trained under Rashid Nezhmetdinov in the 1950s, and later became a respected chess writer, journalist and arbiter. In the Soviet ches...