With Carissa Yip despatching Ju Wenjun, I decided to check whether there was a club similar to the Chigorin Club (for those who defeated reigning men's world champions). There wasn't one, so there's my humble effort to establish it. The club is na...
One myth that stops many players from developing a Master-Level Opening Repertoire is a lack of self-belief. They reason that only "genius" Grandmasters with photographic memories can memorize long opening lines, and never put in the effort to d...
My previous posts (Part I, Part II ) on this theme are both approaching 1000 views so it is definitely time for another instalment! Read the previous two blogs if you want to know why I think endgame studies are so good ...
As it already was in January, two Titled Tuesday blitz tournaments were organised on February, 4.Results can be found here: https://www.chess.com/article/view/titled-tuesday-what-you-need-to-know Mediocre performances for me, in both events - an...
About four weeks ago I played in my first tournament in two and a half years! My previous tournament was the 2017 US Junior Championship (which is a tournament I am now too old to play in 😅.) For several years I haven't played in too ma...
"... I feel that the main reasons to buy an opening book are to give a good overview of the opening, and to explain general plans and ideas. ..." - GM John Nunn (2006) Our BOOK OF THE WEEK is My First Chess Opening Repertoire for Black by Vinc...
Rawr!!! hehe Hi there. This is Stacia and I hope your attacking spirit is ready for some more action because we are going to continue looking at attacking ideas this month! If you missed the previous post on this topic, fear n...
In a recent article I commented that I really must stop posting losses by Max Euwe. I could say the same about Georg Marco and Vasily Smyslov!! So, with a day of doing nothing here, I decided to add to this series of self indulgencies with m...
Alireza Firouzja has a dynamic, attacking style, and while it's hard to say how his style may evolve in future, as a young player his games recall Fischer's, Tal's, and Kasparov's more so that Carlsen's. One of his youthful openings has been the...
by David Pruess, manager Just looking at the lineups for the Eastern and Central divisions this week got me pretty excited, so I wanted to share the perspective of an avid PCL fan (and manager) seeing them. Eastern Division Bulldogs-Eagles ...
One of the most popular openings for White after 1.d4, especially in the last couple of years, was the London System (d4 & Bf4, without playing c4). But it looks that it is a victim of its success - Black has to play against it that many times...
by Dana Mackenzie, Staff Writer In week six of the PRO Chess League, the California Unicorns picked the right time to play their best match of the season. Against the heavily favored New York Marshalls, who were led by Hikaru Nakamura on board o...
Hi chess people. David Bronstein was a great attack player. In this post we are going to see an instructive game where he beat another great master: Efim Geller. I was reading about Bronstein for this post and these are some interesting facts ab...
Alireza Firouzja and Parham Maghsoodloo are two of the greatest chess prodigies on the planet, and as it happens, they both hail from Iran. Today's video features two exciting struggles between these talents from the Iranian Championship. First,...
My road temporary stopped in May 2019 when I became too busy with finding a house to buy and sell 3 property to finance our new house. We got our house in November 2019. It has 2 apartments, one for us and one for my father and mother in law. ...
Afternoon Everyone. A quick bit of fun today!! A few days ago, my good friend @kamalakanta took time out of his chaotic shedule to bring us some nice chess here:- https://www.chess.com/blog/kamalakanta/nikolaevsky-geller-and-bronstein-2-games-on...
There are a lot of great chess books I can recommend to improve your chess (Here are 25 of my favorites...), but today I felt like answering a more pointless question: "What are the most expensive chess books out there?" Speaking only of my own ...
Since my previous posts on variants, why they work, and why they don't, I've been hearing from some inventors and designers of variants. A variant has been implemented based on my an idea of mine. Here I develop and sometimes revise the ideas in o...
There's a huge group of players that like to start with 1.Nf3, and only after 1.d5, they play 2.d4. This move order avoids the Benko Gambit, the Albin Counter-Gambit, the Chigorin, and all the Benonis. In other words, this is no problem for normal...
One of the questions I get asked the most is "What does it really take to become a Chess Master?" I'm starting a new video series to address exactly that. Here's the first installment, covering how to get started in chess. If you have any frie...
Below I'll provide rather a serious analysis of Anna Muzychuk's brilliant win from the final round of the Gibraltar tournament. But first, two quotes about the game: Anna Muzychuk, 31 Jan 2020: Shared 3rd women's place at Gibraltar Masters. ...
Welcome back to yet another visual blog post series! This series feature one of the most requested tournaments ever! The second annual Cairns Cup, the highest-rated all-female tournament in chess history! The event is hosted by Saint Louis Chess C...
Imagine a Grandmaster, say our favorite former World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal, staring at his chess board with a tilted head and hands on his cheek, contemplating his position for twenty minutes. He stares at his pieces, then at his oppone...
In the same year as his immortal double-bishop sacrifice against Bauer, future world chess champion, Emanuel Lasker, played a wonderful game against Jacques Mieses. The game shows Mieses violating several opening principles (flank pawn advances,...
Hi there, This is Stacia and I hope your attacking spirit is ready for some action because we are going to be looking at some attacking chess ideas this month! One of the best things you can do for your chess game is focus on tactics, t...