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...
Greetings everyone! Welcome to busting 3 dubious black sidelines (obviously there will also be a post on 3 white sidelines) which we'll in depth cover strengths, weaknesses, and concrete refutations against. Also the lines I'm including aren't t...
Hi all, It's been a while since I last blogged but I recently I wanted to challenge myself to make a video that explained a full game in detail in a very short amount of time. My reasoning is that most humans do not learn from their first experi...
Inspired by Peter Doggers' news post, I found the old Match Of The Century book, edited by Mikhail Yudovich. Along with the forty games, there were short interviews by all 24 players, including non-playing reserves Bronstein and Darga. All pl...
For today's post, I will share a simple antidote to the Modern Defence (1.e4 g6). The Modern is especially popular in online chess, perhaps because of its systematic nature, along with the general understanding among top GMs that fianchetto-based ...
I want to show a quite wide training materials prepared by me, over which I spent several hours. It is free for You to show and learn. I use it to teach my chess students. It concerns my games mostly from Polish, Czech and Slovak leagues. There ar...
Hi guys! Today my club (https://www.chess.com/club/expert-blitz-tournaments) had an 8 round swiss tournament, honoring Samuel Reshevsky. The purpose of the club in general is for people to have something to do while staying in quarantine. To...
Many newer chess fans go to know GM Emil Sutovsky for the first time this week due to his off-the-board moves as Director General of FIDE. His on-the-board moves are some of my favorites as he won many brilliant games in the 2000s. His game agai...