Today we know that a world championship candidates tournament does not necessarily lead to a title defense by the reigning world champion, BUT does the existence of a world champion lead to a candidates tournament? That seems to be the case in the...
Hi chess friends! I'm very happy to share with you a very exciting game that I played against a 1600 fide rated player in a rapid tournament. I made a very nice attack with an exchange sacrifice. I played as black the Sicilian Dragon.
Double The Bugs! Chess is usually an individual game that is played between two people. However, there is a variant that requires teamwork between two players to win the game. On chess.com, this is called doubles bughouse. It is similar to bugho...
Afternoon everyone. Quick, cheap and cheerful today!! Taken an afternoon off from the realities of life for those of my age to throw this together - got 5 hours, and the feature game will take at least 3 to annotate, so no frills stuff today! ...
Dear Friends, I will play with 20-30 players in the same time simultaneously. The time control will be 30 minutes per player plus 30 seconds increment per move. The starting time in the different time zones will be: noon Los Angeles time ...
Hello Friends! Every week I select 10 positions ranging from easy to difficult across various themes like tactics, strategy, endgame, defence, etc. for you guys to solve and enjoy. For this week, I have selected 10 positions from the 44th Chess Ol...
This report has come in a little late due to travel home over the last few days but the Olympiad came to a close several days ago and it featured a nail-biting finish where a talented Uzbekistani team (who remarkably had an average age of only 20)...
Dear chess lovers, I want to present you with a few games that pivot around a particular theme in the Ruy Lopez. I first encountered this theme while looking at the game Bronstein-Keres, Budapest Candidates 1950. This was the last round, and Bro...
The 1900s were a chess decade in development. Just as the world was observing rapid modernization, the chess world was also modernizing. Lasker remained the reigning world champion at the decades outset, but he had not defended his title since his...
Dear Chess Friends! I'm back from vacation and ready to continue our weekly events. This week I suggest to warm up, play a few blitz games and have some fun! That's why, I would like to invite you to my Blitz Practice! I’m going to play ...
Chess in the last few years has drastically changed with the advent of even stronger chess computers than before. Engines have set new trends in the strategy of our royal game, and continuously previously-thought impossible plays have acquired a n...
My boy Dvoretsky was really upset when I leaked the theory regarding the mysterious world of 10 Horse Checkmate and broke the world record. Since then, I have been receiving many requests during my live streams, under my YouTube videos, my Twitter...
Sam Copeland has written that “The 1980s were (even more than the 1990s), the ‘K’ decade. In 1981, World Champion Anatoly Karpov played Viktor Korchnoi in their second world championship match, winning convincingly. Thre...
It's been a while since my last scheduled live stream on Twitch. I think my last scheduled stream was with James Canty at the beginning of 2021. Since then a lot has changed! Including the birth of my daughter Nataly Kimble aka, Natty Slice! ...
Hey ChessKids! We have some really brilliant chess players in the ChessKid family, including FM Shreyas Royal and NM Brewington Hardaway. Read on to hear about Shreyas' successful GM-level performance and Brew's first-place win! FM Shreyas Roy...
The FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! Coach JD and I highlight Armenia's Gabriel Sargissian against Spain's Alexei Shirov. We have ChessGoals courses that are currently 25% off during the olympiad with coupon code olympiad. We have a ...
The difference between UltraBullet chess and its classical counterpart raise what I think is a very pertinent philosophical question: is the former in fact "chess?” I argue that it isn't, because to be called chess, the game has to meet thre...
NOTE: This article assumes you're already proficient with algebraic notation. If you're not, then check out this excellent guide before continuing: Chess Notation. Intro Today, the chess community uses algebraic notation exclusively. Why, the...
Political Disruptions And A Record Number Of National Titles GM Simen Agdestein had a busier than usual summer this year; his term as federation president ended unexpectedly after just a single year, but instead of dwelling on politics he rampag...
Maróczy entered the elite in 1895. He won the Amateur Tournament at Hastings and then the next year finished second at Nuremberg and, from there to the end of the decade, made steady inroads towards the first-tier of masters. In 1900, he fi...
Round 10 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! Coach JD and I highlight India's Gukesh D versus Uzbekistan's Nordibek Abdusattorov. These are the 2nd and 3rd highest-rated juniors, only behind Alireza Firouzja. Gukesh D is only 16, and Nor...
King of the Hill King of the hill is one of the most popular variations of chess. The objective of the game is primarily to get your king to one of the four center squares. This variation requires players to focus on control of the center. A che...
Round 9 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! I highlight America's Fabiano Caruana versus Greece's Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios. The game starts with a Sicilian Sveshnikov, and Fabiano plays aggressively out of the gates. Dimitrios misses a f...
There exist certain variants of chess that, without the advent of the internet, simply wouldn't be possible. "Ultra Bullet chess" - if it can even be called that, since when we play this variant, we hardly play it according to the same strategy th...