Dag allemaal! Do I really need to write this blog? Do I? These are the things I'm wondering to myself right now, because I played and absolutely HORRIBLE game from the opening which I never deserved to draw. At one point in the game I was even&n...
This is the first in a new series I've been wanting to do for awhile where I will analyze interesting quick or blitz games played solely for the purpose of learning. In this 3/2 game on chess.com I play 1. e4 and face something interestin...
In round 4 of the 2019 Tata Steel tournament, Anish Giri scored another victory with the Black pieces, this time against Richard Rapport.
Predictions for @tatasteelchess based on "Bestuzhev index" (percentage of points in classical games against each other, as per chessgamescom data). @lachesisq is the only player to have classical games against all 13 opponents, and has best poin...
For many years now, a gentleman by the name of Josh Stewart has been running a chess group for children. Originally, I went with my oldest daughter, Ailene. (She is now 22.) Now I am going with my youngest daughter, Angel. (She is a Senior in High...
Greetings! Day 4 at TATA steel chess was a good one for me! I won my game, had dinner with legends and appeared on the official broadcast joining IM Lawrence Trent and IM Anna Rudolph! More on that later in this blog. Day one at TATA...
Paul Keres defeated more world champions (9!) than any other chess player. That list includes every world champion from Jose Capablanca through Bobby Fischer. Here is his very first recorded win against a future world champion, Vassily Smyslov. ...
With one loss in the books, we turned our attention to the second week's match against the Australia Kangaroos. They don't have the star power of Ding Liren or Caruana+So, but they definitely have two young stars worth keeping one's eyes on: Alexe...
Been reading through the old issues of 64 (many of them are available for free at the Russian Chess Federation website) and other Soviet chess publications recently. This gave me, among other things, two excellent pieces on women's chess...
This blog isn't exactly on chess... I've just started searching for chess paintings and images in the web. I've found many many great posts with beautiful collections, some thematic, some with reconstructive intentions of the displayed chess posit...
Hello everyone. As you already know, tactics is a very important aspect of the game if you want to raise your level. In this post, I’m going to explain 5 selected puzzles, where you have to win using Clearance Tactical Theme. We talk about...
Hello chess.com! Today was day three at TATA steel chess for us amateurs and the second day for the challengers and masters. I closed this day off with a draw, which put me on 2.5/3, clinching the group victory! Day one at TATA can be fou...
Today, in the 2nd round of Tata Steel, Giri, playing Black, scored an amazing victory against Kramnik!
Another article about women's chess, written two years after Alexandra Klimenko. Olga Morachevskaya (1906-1973) was a three-time Moscow champion and shared 2nd-3rd places at the 5th Soviet Women's Chess Championship in 1938. In 1945, she played a ...
This column from the Soviet magazine Shakhmatniy Listok looks quite modern, even though 90 years have passed since its publication. Not all woman players were satisfied with the work of chess authorities. The author rises a legitimate point e...
Hello chess lovers! As I addressed in my last post, I'm currently playing at the TATA steel chess tournament in WIjk aan Zee. I planned to blog daily about my performance, so far so good! Missed the first blog? Read it back here I've been pl...
Welcome! In this post, as you might have guessed from the title, I am going to be sharing with you some tactical moments that have arisen in some of my recent blitz games. I didn't have to look far for these, because naturally blitz games contai...
Aronian is one of the great players of our time, well known and with many fans who love their dynamic games. This is one of his best games, and in it he sacrifices a piece in the opening to achieve a position of absolute dominance in which he pl...
Recently there was a wonderful article by @ddtru here on the 1910 World Championship match. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest you put an hour aside and go take a look. It's high quality work! There I commented that the previous meetings...
Sometimes there is a debate of whether a player should go for beauty, or for the best moves. But what if you could do both? There are players who are able to do so: they can play at a high level, yet play inspired! Players of this type are the Art...
Hi friends! I'll be playing 6 games at TATA steel this year, and I plan to share them with you every day! Exciting stuff isn't it? Let's get right to it! On my first day I faced the top seed with 1988 (my rating is 1938). It was an exciting ga...
Hello!I brought some crazy games.This week has been terrible. I had a flu, but I played chess. First, two very entertaining fights with players 2300 and beyond! Second game is real fantastic! I played it against Evgeniy Pristalov, st...
Interest in the game of chess has been growing over last 10 years even though there are tons of different types of entertainment available so easily and so many different online games people can play. Chess.com is now around 500th page on the Inte...
I started my road for the Grandmaster title. I play in the year opening tourney in Budapest. My opponent yesterday was Attila Forgacs a talented junior player. He played the same strong and strange idea which Evelin Rozsa Majo...
I knew that I was facing a crisis at work in December through March--a new class to teach, a grant submission deadline, and a realistic chance of needing a new job--but I snatched some time in October to go to the Western States Open in Reno, Neva...