“I will make 40 good moves and if you are able to do the same, the game will end in a draw.” - Vasily Smyslov There has been a fierce debate in the past about what the result of a chess game would be if both sides played all of the b...
In the 4th round I played against a strong young International Master Tamás Petényi. He played the old Indian defense. I got space advantage and more active pieces, but I could not find the best way to improve my positi...
White to play and draw. (Inspired by a question from GM Michal Krasenkow but it doesn't answer his question). ***Vote For The Chesscom Immortal Game@chesscom users can vote for my games here: https://chess.com/news/view/vote-chess-com-immortal...
Hello everybody! This week I am close to the most fantastic success of my chess career! As you know, the Chess.Com portal has announced a competition for the best game to be added to the ongoing Immortal Games Collection...
Intended level: Beginner/Early Intermediate I have never seen anything more terrible and dreadful than a Macedonian phalanx! — Aemilius Paullus, Roman general Two important concepts of pawn play, the ram and the lever, have been alre...
In round 3 I played with International Grandmaster Gábor Nagy from Hungary. He surprised me in the opening with Qc2 in the chebanenko Slav. I wanted to play solid, so I gave up the pair of bishops and space. He could have a winning at...
Hi, everyone! A few things I wish to share with you all. First of all here are some of Kramnik's thoughts: Vladimir Kramnik, World Champion 2000-2008 Kramnik – I did not have the opportunity to study chess classics when I was a c...
In round 2 I played with the young Hungarian FIDE-Master Ferenc Gombocz. I played the London system and I got an advantage, because I blocked his a6-b7 pawn with my a5 pawn and I got a passed pawn on d4. I did not find the way to increase my adv...
AMATEUR CHESS LEAGUECorporate Chess India and IM Nubairshah Shaikh are the core organizers of the Amateur Chess League in coordination with Chess.com India team. After organizing 2 successful seasons of ACL they are back with the THIRD SEASON!! An...
One of the most important things in chess is to find the right plan. During the game, every player faces that challenge. The first time to evaluate is right after the opening and usually 2-3 times later on. There is even a saying, “better to...
In the 1st round of the Grandmaster tournament I played with the 15 years old talented International Master Marcell Borhy. I played the Chebanenko Slav. I played too slow in the opening and he won a pawn with active play. He could win the ...
Want to quickly increase your rating by say 50+ points? Forget about reading yet another book, or watching yet another online chess course. Instead … are you ready for this? Are you sure? Here it is: find your mojo, your Joie De Vivre (J...
Hey guys! How do you know who is better at some specific position in Chess? Why is it important to properly evaluate positions? Which Key Factors should we analyze to assess any position? Today we will be answering those questions... Well, b...
Dear Chess Friends! To sacrifice or not to sacrifice? The eternal question in chess, especially when you are into the attack! However, Mikhail Tal knew the answer. He sacrificed material very often and his intuition was right. Was it his intuiti...
Live Chess World League 2021-S1 is in progress! At the end of first stage's play, top 4 teams from each division have qualified for Championship pool. Here is a recap of the first stage of this season. Div.1 In absence of Ukraine, Russia starte...
Yesterday I won a game against Grandmaster Alexander Rustemov in the Titled Tuesday Tournament. I played the London system. He replied the modern Bd6, Qc7 line. I got a big advantage, but missed my chances to win material and I got into a worse ...
Baruch Harold Wood was a fixture of British chess for decades. In 1935, he founded the magazine, "Chess," and he edited the magazine for more than 50 years, up until 1988. Wood was a strong player as well as an organizer and arbiter, but one his b...
I haven’t said much in this series about Mikhail Chigorin, who was kind of the elder statesman of chess masters of this period, held in something of the same reverence that Keres or Bronstein would be for Soviet players in the ‘60s &nd...
I will play in the 2nd Vezerkepzo Grandmaster Tourney. It will start tomorrow in the Berlin Hotel, in Budapest, Hungary. The following players will participate: Starting rank list of players No. Name FideID FED Rtg sex ...
This week's opening is a defense to the Ruy Lopez, which I today learned is called the Modern Arkhangelsk. In today's video, we talked about the meaning behind the moves leading up to the characteristic Bc5 move by black, and then played a bunch o...
7 days ago I started a study routine: I study tactics puzzles every day at least 1 hour and to make myself accountable and inspire other players I stream it on my twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo post the video at ht...
There are so many endgames that can arise in chess, so how should we go about learning all of them? After all, there's no way you could possibly study each and every possible position that could occur in your games! To tackle this problem, let's f...
TLDR at the bottom Besides the occasional one-off session with friends, I haven't formally coached in several years. In spite of this, I still get messages here on chess.com (and elsewhere) asking "how do I get better at chess?".&nbs...
'Mr. Yates has left a heritage of beautiful and artistic games of which any master might well be proud'. Tartakower. 500 Master Games of Chess. A few days ago I took the liberty of posting a game of Fred Yates in the comments to someone else's b...
Sammy Reshevsky was arguably the greatest and most celebrated child chess prodigy of all time. Reshevsky emigrated with his family from Poland to the United States at the young age of nine, at which point he toured the country, playing thousands i...