I am offering a free simulations to members of my video lessons club (Third largest club on chess.com!) Details here: https://www.chess.com/news/view/play-coach-bill-sunday-march-29 Questions? Please ask!
Rooks are pieces which loves open file. I hope that after you read my article you will understand how to put rooks in the center of the board and on the open file. That is my game which I played at 2012 during XXIII International Chess Tourna...
Division 1 is having the best season in the history of Live Chess World League. Records are broken on every week as the teams continue to surprise us! Almost every team increased their maximum number of participants. Russia might be...
GM Hikaru Nakamura is renowned for his dynamic and aggressive style and his fast tactical eye. These days his speed of calculation has even made him an internet meme more than a few times. In one of his most famous wins, Nakamura used only a few...
After a long gap, I decided to resume with the blog posts here. While I was having a session with one of my students, I realized that the stoic ideas could serve as a great markers to chess players. Some of you may already know what Stoicism ...
Given that we’re living through crazy times, it’s not surprising that I find myself playing some crazy games. Here’s my latest example. This game is from Round 4 of the tournament Красунчик "Яни Капу". @nutaras named the tourna...
I want to show you one of my game, played 7 years ago, which contains many usefull positional ideas, sacrifices, tactics motives and also blunders The main purpose is to show you two knights and active king in the edgame, which are mor...
This time I try to show some ideas linked to energy of mass pawns. First game is played in King's Indian Defence. White creates attack on queenside and black on kingside. Both sides try to use pawns to open up the field for pieces. Player who can ...
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the now-postponed FIDE Candidates Tournament 2020 captivated the chess world. This event recalls another match between top players during a similar public health crisis. The year was 1918, and the emergency...
Bishops are strong pieces, also useful in open position. Very important are when we have both bishops on the board in open position and our opponent has bioshop and knight or two knights. We call it the pair of bishops. We could start from my ga...
The head photo was published in the Excelsior of 21.05.1922, accompanied by the caption: "M. Pape jouant aux echecs sur la tour Eiffel pendant la guerre"! It was part of an article of Edouard Pape, probably cause of his at the time recent win over...
A couple of weeks ago I have played the game with a pretty nice attack. Despite the fact, that I haven't picked the most accurate way of playing, I managed to make a smothered checkmate.Check out can you find the best way of attacking for Black fr...
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...
Another exciting chess show from FunMasterMike and Tihon on the ChessKid.com channel. Watch here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/575244533 JUST ENJOY CHESS!!!
How do you recognize a genius in chess? Simple, look at the best move they ever played, or the most spectacular, the one that makes you fall in love with chess once again! Well, I will say it here...Andras Adorjan is a genius! Witness the last m...
Greetings all, because most people are trapped indoors due to the lockdown in response to COVID-19, I've devised a clever improvement guide that I'm certain will give substantial results given persistence, discipline, and several hours of your day...
Dear Chess Friends! Thank you for attending my previous webinar where I conducted a Simul. I really appreciate that you came, played and watched. The score was 7:0 (I won all games), but on some of them my opponents had real chances at least to ...
I previously christened IM Sulyemanli's excellent win the Immortal Space Invaders game, but that was only because I hadn't seen this delightful 2009 game in which GM Artyom Timofeev brilliantly overwhelmed GM Khismatullin with two spectacular posi...
Dear Chess Friends!I created a video where described top 7 aggressive chess openings that I played in my games! 3 of them are for white and 4 for black! I definitely recommend you to use some of them, for example, the ones you like or you think fi...
Before the first rest day, there were glimpses of how AlphaZero has revolutionized the chess world- Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana in rounds 1 and 3 respectively showed some brilliant preparation based on sacrificing pawns for long term compensati...
I still remember the last few days of my college life when I lived in a frugal way inside a small apartment room along with my other classmates. We cooked with the bare minimum and lived a simple life. One of the unique memories I still have is ha...
G'day all! Glad you could make it to the final blog in the series of Chess Romanticism. I'll show you the fine effulgent romantic artistry from 3 lesser-known old masters, embodied in 3 great games. I'll also give a cursory introduction of the pl...
Hi chess mates. This time we’ll analyze a very interesting endgame with King and Rook vs King and Pawn. This material relation happens more or less often, because it transposes from Rook endgames when a side needs to sacrifice his rook for a...
Good afternoon everyone. I hope from the bottom of my heart ( some will tell you that I don't have one, but that is a mild overstatement!! ) that you are all safe and well. Put together something brief ( by my standards!) to keep t...
FM Daniel Barrish is no stranger to national titles, having won his first u10 SA Championship at the age of seven. Nevertheless, his most recent title is a special one: at the end of last year, Daniel beat out a field of some of South Africa&rsquo...