Hello chess friends, I've been playing chess for two decades now, and I'd like to announce my retirement from classical tournaments (with the exception of the forthcoming 2019 FIDE World Cup, which I just qualified for). Some of you may ...
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By Dana Mackenzie, Staff Writer When I wrote my last post I couldn’t tell yet how much the San Francisco Mechanics had moved up in our division of the PRO Chess League. Now Thursday's two Battle Royales are in the books, and the league sta...
After the first 7 rounds of the February Titled Tuesday Tournament I had 4 points. The time control of the tourney was 3 minutes per player plus 2 seconds increment per move. In the 7 round I played with International Master Denis Kovalev...
I have been pretty busy tonight, so today's blog post will be a short one! One of the themes I find really beautiful in chess is domination - namely, seeing a small unit dominate an equivalent or higher-value force. You can find many exa...
After the first 6 rounds of the February Titled Tuesday Tournament I had 3 points. The time control of the tourney was 3 minutes per player plus 2 seconds increment per move. In the 7 round I played with International Master Leonardo Tristan fro...
Hi Everyone, My last post was written in early November. What has happened in the meantime? A lot, both in chess-life and life in general. I decided to kick off this year's blogging with a more personal post than usual, telling you a bit abou...
Earlier today, as I was playing my Round 6 game at the Oceania Zonal, I was sitting beside a game between two strong club players (rated in the 1900-2100 range), watching events unfold with interest. The game started as follows: At this ...
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,...
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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