“Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it, checkmate ends the game.” - GM Nigel Short Our BOOK OF THE WEEK is Attacking Chess for Club Players by Herman Grooten. After the imme...
Along with Nihal Sarin, Alireza Firouzja truly impresses me. He has incredible poise; you can never detect nervousness in him. His concentration level is exquisite, whether he is playing blitz, rapid or Classical. I present you here with three g...
About a year ago, Netflix released a mini-documentary series called Losers. The documentary series followed the lives of the athletes who, for whatever reason, ended up on the wrong side of a result: A trailer for Losers - incidentally the footb...
Dear Chess Friends! You know it’s a real pleasure to win a chess game using an opening trap. However, to create a trap at any cost shouldn’t be your priority and, of course, you should distinguish bad traps and good traps. And apply ...
How can you play better in the opening, putting pressure on the opponent without spending so many hours learning lots of opening theory? Imagine that you spend a month studying an opening book in full...only to find that people keep avoiding the...
Hikaru Nakamura has long been one of the best blitz chess players online, but can he really defeat a chess engine in three-minute, no-increment chess?! In 2008, he did exactly that as he used an incredible anti-computer strategy of closing the p...
Interview from the Sahs magazine, September 1969. Unsigned. How do you conduct an interview? In 99 cases out of 100, it's very simple: a grandmaster comes into the office of a chess magazine, you ask him a series of prepared questions. The ...
It's been one month since I started The Chess Improvement Group, and I've shared a lot of content there in that time!In fact, in this post, I'm going to list some of the content for you, so you can see for yourself what you get. And my group membe...
Afternoon everyone. Spur of the moment article here! Except for the game notes, which took forever, everything straight off the top of my head - so apologies in advance for what will probably a rambling incoherent shambles!!! &nb...
Video Link: https://youtu.be/G2xZOhW2fCM Hi all, Today we are in for a treat! This is one of the lessons that I had on my channel and I wanted to share it with everyone here in the Chesscom Blogs! Caruana takes a seemingly drawn posit...
With many of our team members in self-quarantine mode, we can't think of a better topic to write about than our current situation and how, as chess players, we can take inspiration from our favorite game to beat this stalemate situation! I'm sure ...
Hello my chess friends. Today I’m solving puzzles in Chess.com. When I see the position, I try to say everything I’m thinking about, just to let you know the thought process I go through until I find the final solution. All the Puzzles...
Ah yes I remember it well. It was Fall of 2018 when the idea was first suggested to me by National Master Michael Joelson, my new boss at non-profit chess organization, Progress With Chess. “Just play 1. e4,” he said candid...
Hello everyone! If you are a beginner, for sure you should learn how to give the scholars mate. Is one of the MUST KNOW tricks to beat your frinds. Enjoy the video and in my next post I will teach you how to defend against it. Feel free to s...
Hello everyone! If you are a beginner, for sure you should learn how to give the scholars mate. Is one of the MUST KNOW tricks to beat your frinds. Enjoy the video and in my next post I will teach you how to defend against it. Feel free to s...
What do you do when you are a 2600 player and are playing Black against a 16-year-old, 2700-rated rising star, who is an expert in the King's Indian Defence? You beat him with Black using the King's Indian Defence and by finding the novelty of the...
Dear Chess Friends! Knights need strong-points, bishops – open diagonals, but rooks – open (or semi-open) files! Every chess player knows that if there is an open file and no other good moves, occupying this open file with your rook ...
For today's post, I will share four nice endgame studies from old times! This time I won't give away the theme so that you have to work harder to solve them Enjoy! That one was not too hard, if you have good combinative vision.&n...
All the divisions are having some remarkable contests in the ongoing season of Live Chess World League. In contrast, teams on Division 3 are having some unique struggles. Div.3 got only 8% of the total players in this season so far! Match o...
Today I decided to reread and study the wonderful book: How to reassess your chess by Jeremy Silman. The knowledge of this book helps to build up a good foundation for positional chess. In the first chapter it show an overview of the topics...
The longest chess game ever played in an official tournament as of writing this post was Nikolić vs Arsović played in Belgrade in the year 1989, This game lasted 269 moves and took 20 hours to complete! The game ended up being ...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is one of the finest chess players on the planet today, but everyone starts somewhere; he too was once a young prodigy, hungering for his first elite victories. In his first (but possibly not last?) game on this list, a 17...
Morning Guys. Three days into lockdown and I am bored already!! So, looking at the 'Articles' folder on my computer came up with a game I had started on for this series. Knowing that there are a couple of endgame lovers out there who read my stu...
Is it really true that White can force mate in 12 moves from the initial position? There was a secret method that Alekhine learned from a Russian peasant in 1914. He was in St Petersburg for the 1914 tournament and while he was at his studies ...
There isn't much to celebrate in these troubled times as most of us are more or less jammed at home. Well, there is Kevin Goh's confirmation as a Grandmaster, the first for Singapore in 2 decades (on April's Fools day, no less) so at least we have...