When I look at the games of some players, I feel......well, I feel like a monkey at a Trigonometry class! I am not kidding! The moves, the ideas, are so surprising, it leaves you wondering......how come I can't play like that? I am reminded of...
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It is widely thought by experts that the critical test of the "Neo-London" with 1. d4, Nf6, 2. Bf4 is the Benoni move 2...c5. In this two-part post I want to look at how White can play against this and to try to come to some conclusions (at least ...
Hello fellow chess players, In case you haven't heard on Thursday May 24 at 4pm EST/1pm PST IM Danny Rensch will be a special guest on my show. Although we never what will happen when Danny decides to get in front of a camera I have time sl...
Do you believe in luck when playing a game of chess? Or do you, as Bobby Fischer, think that "chess depends on you"? Or, perhaps, you ask yourself, "Do I feel lucky?" Definition of luck is "success brought by chance". In this post I discu...
This post is dedicated to Adorjan's games with the Modern Defense, because in his "Black is Back!" book there are various games of his which I find interesting. Adorjan's style of play is very attractive to me. I have always struggled to know...
As you've probably heard by now, Chess University has released its FREE Intro To Chess Crash Course, a 20-part video course that covers all the rules and basics of chess. If you haven't opted in to receive it yet, you can get it HERE.If you would ...
FIDE just went too far with this. Ignoring a World Championship match that it supposed to be the pinnacle of all that is chess is atrocious. Yet they did it. Gens una sumus? I don't think so. They are just so worried about securing their posi...
Well, this post might end up being a little longer than I had planned!! Hans Renette, who is FM.Like-a-Hurricane on this site, recently had an article on Paulsen published in New in Chess. He has a book on Paulsen at the editorial stage - another&...
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Last week in the Slow Chess League I won two games in very different fashions. In the first one, after my opponent blundered a pawn on move 3 (or perhaps, played an exteremly dubious gambit) I kept grabbing pawns until the game transformed into 'E...
Two weeks ago we looked at White's best play when Black plays the copycat with ...Bf5 (see here). In the meantime I visited London for some philosophy, but now it's time to look at another way in which Black can surprise White: by playin...
By now, you've probably heard of AlphaZero, Google's incredible chess project. Last year, it took the chess world by storm. Using 'artificial intelligence' - at least that's what the news articles claimed - AlphaZero taught itself chess in l...
Hello chess fans, Welcome to the second edition of our new Blogs of the Month series. As many of you know, we have the privilege of hosting the best chess bloggers on the internet. This is our way of thanking them for the hard work they put in t...
Hello, everyone! For those of you non-Americans, you are probably wondering why I chose a title such as, "Houston, we have a problem". The saying is quite prominent, and the story is that Apollo 13, launched in 1970, was a sp...
To Singapore-based chessplayers: If you want to have a go at predicting GM Timur Gareyev's Blindfold Challenge moves competitively as well as play in a blitz tourney where the QCD-Prof Lim Kok Ann GMs Invitational event will be held, do attempt ...
Hello everyone, I'm very happy to share with you a very interesting game between the Grand Master Lazic from Serbia against the "Super" Grand Master Vallejo Pons, played in the Master Italian Chess League this year. I hope that you enyoj the g...
Full disclaimer: As much as I would like to give myself credit for this artwork you are about to read, I got this game as well as the storyline from another resource, which will be mentioned at the end of the article. Also, I may end up utilizing ...
As someone who has studied just about every important chess player, I am often asked for my 'all-time lists'. You know, greatest of all time, strongest of all time, best endgame player of all time, etc. Well, I really don't do those lists!! The on...
The Capablanca Memorial is under way in Havana. Browsing through the games I noticed a very interesting idea in the Rossolimo Sicilian by GM Yuri Gonzalez. I wonder whether it was inspired by Grischuk's Bd2 from Berlin. I played in Cuba twi...
Before we get started, I want to talk a little bit about my last post. The mistakes I made in writing it are well-documented: I answered about ten different comments on that topic, and felt bad through all of them. In reviewing...
We would like to highlight two new developments in the QCD-Prof Lim Kok Ann GMs Invitational event (June 7th to 12th 2018). Firstly, an admirer of Prof Lim Kok Ann donated S$250 for a Lim Kok Ann brilliancy prize game. We heartily agreed as ...
Hello Boomers! Ok, to start, the title needs some clarification:1. That Korean boy is me: @myteachersam aka MTS. I'm a 32-year old chesstv and twitch partner streamer who looks like he's still in high school. I am no beast in chess, but I'll get...
Back again! Since Number 1. of this series only stayed visible for about 40 minutes, most people won't have spotted it, so I will do a quick 'cut and paste' of my intro there to give the idea of what I am doing. Well, the press...
After months of preparation and negotiations, we are glad to announce we have finalized the details for the QCD-Prof Lim Kok Ann Grandmasters Invitational 2018 (June 7th to 12th), which is likely to be a Category 8 event with GM norm at 6.5/9 and ...