The title of this post may seem over-dramatic, but when you consider that the Wingfield High School Chess Team formed amidst neighborhoods plagued by generational poverty, crime, rampant gun violence, gang activity and crushing academic malaise, I...
I know this is somewhat overdue... but never too late to say sorry! Among the most anticipated chess events in this chess age was the stunning return of former World Champion Garry Kasparov in competitive chess (St. Louis Rapid/Blitz ev...
On behalf of Chess.com, I wanted to post an update here regarding the situation that took place during the Speed Chess Championship match between Grandmasters Levon Aronian and Ian Nepomniachtchi. During the first game of the 3-minute portio...
in round 4 I played with Alex Krstulovic who won the Budapest Blitz Championship last Sunday. He is a 14 years old FIDE-master and european champion in the under 8 years old category. He has a very serious study plan, studies 4 days a week w...
We’re so excited to introduce a brand new kind of tournament in Live Chess this week: Arena tournaments! What are they all about? Glad you asked!… First of all, here’s what Arenas are definitely NOT about: waiting for the next...
In round 3, I played the scotch which I studied 20 years ago and used to become an international master, but did not like it. After his 5..Nf6, I got a new idea of Qe2 to prevent black's usual development. I missed his Ba6 idea to prevent my sho...
http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/08/garry/
In round 2 I was able to sacrifice a bishop to open the position of my opponent, but I played too slow and he was able to give back the bishop and exchange queens to save the game. I tried other 20 moves, but it was a draw: In round 3 I will pl...
Chess University, Inc. continues to reach new milestones and is revolutionizing chess education. As of this month, we are the world's first organization to offer live, graded, in-school elective chess classes that are taught entirely online. Our f...
One of the very first chess books I bought was Morphy's Games of Chess (1957) by Philip W. Sergeant. This book (I was 14 years old when I read it) made a lasting impression on me - I've been fascinated by the chess genius from New Orleans eve...
In the tournament there is an international grandmaster from Israel, two international masters from Hungary, a FIDE-master from England, a FIDE-master from Hungary, a woman international master from Hungary and a candidate-master from Vietnam. Yo...
Today I start to play in a tournament. It will be a round robin tourney with 10 players and 9 rounds. I solved a lot of tactical exercises to improve my calculation. I wish I can use it and win nice games in the tourney!
What could have been my immortal game. Alas... http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/08/a-wild-game/
White to play, mates by force.
My new video is out here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUheQ-_8dz4 It's about possible Black reactions against the minority attack in the Carlsbad structure. Hope you enjoy it and find it useful!
As those who read my blog are aware, I sometimes actually play chess instead of translating some obscure Soviet books. Today I had probably the craziest game of my life.
In my opinion, this game perfectly illustrates why we should abolish the draw offer. The (much) higher rated player got himself caught in some home preparation, and realized he’s playing against a computer, not a 2470-IM. He’s unhapp...
Final analysis of the Sinquefield Cup. Vachier's last-round masterpiece, insights from Carlsen's use of intuition and Anand's brilliance among the most important points. Enjoy it here.
12th World Champion GM Anatoly Karpov is teaching in the August 2017 month of the Prodigy Program - the program that helped create the youngest-ever chess master in American history! Registration for the August 2017 month of the Prodigy ...
Refer to the previous version for rules of admission to this table. However, I decided to throw in some wild cards this time - Ian Nepomniachtchi, who's had an excellent run recently, and three Chinese players - Ding Liren, Wei Yi a...
(Note: I often post about all sorts of things on my own blog, www.davidsmerdon.com, which gets cross-posted here. This is a non-chess post.) One of the cool things about studying economics is that it teaches a new and exciting way o...
Did you EVER think you could learn chess LIVE from 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov from the leisure of your own home!? Do you want to study in online program that helped create the youngest-ever master in American history and is shattering r...
This month we finally hit 100 team members. Ummm, what? Why on earth would Chess.com have 100 people on staff? Fair question. And your follow-up might be, Wait, and you don’t have any offices? Anywhere? No, no we don’t. Then ho...
White to play and win!
Hi folks, I've just released the first lesson of my new (!) course for Chess University, Positional Sacrifices - Volume 1: Pawns on YouTube (video below). In this course I explore the vast topic of positional pawn sacrifices, wher...