Hey ChessKids We have lots of updates for you this month. Get ready for new tournaments, new shows, and new winners! New Show: Trick the TrickyQueen ChessKid is excited to announce that a famous friend of Elsa is coming to ChessKid! That...
Welcome to the new year! This article kicks off what we hope will be a regular combination of Norwegian-centric news to the wider world - and a channel for our Norwegian club and communities. As we transfer from what I think we can all agree has...
Hey guys! Today we learn a new opening: Wing Gambit. This is an aggressive variation against Sicilian Defense. It could be really useful since it can also be played against French Defense. There are some good possibilities to create positions wher...
This weekend, two teams will fight for the third online World Championship of Teams Four Player Chess, a Chess.com variant where two sets of pieces play against two sets of pieces to eliminate one set of pieces eliminated. Prizes will be...
International Master Sahil Sinha played the Old Ben-oni defense. I got space advantage and the d6 target. the nicest move of the game was Re6. I sacrificed the exchange to gain more space and get strong passed pawns. Key ideas to remembe...
BlockChamps is happening this Saturday (Jan 16th) at 10 am PT! It will feature top Minecraft content creators like GeorgeNotFound, Sapnap and others, as well as amazing Twitch streamers such as Pokimane and LilyPichu. The tournament format will be...
Hey, everyone! It's 11:40-ish PM here in Central Texas, so we will make this brief. I have some good news and some bad news about my ratings. No, it's not my 1339 daily rating, but I'm glad you asked! Do you take the good news, or the bad ne...
2021 started perfectly with a coaching session with GM Ramesh. We studied examples about prophylactic thinking and and the f3 variation in the nimzo-indian defense. You can watch the full coaching session at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/86430517...
I have to admit, most of my exchange sacrifices are unintentional. I'm going to guess a bunch of yours are too - unless you are one of my Titled readers, in which case perhaps not. Sometimes they can lead to interesting games. Today I'll discuss s...
Today we study a great game: Tigran Petrosian vs Ludek Pachman, 1961. This is a nice miniature, since the beginning White got the advantage, but the most beautiful moments are in moves 19 and 21, which include a great sacrifice, an attack to the c...
Dear Chess Friends! Usually, amateurs prefer to simplify the position and exchange pieces, while professional players enjoy complicated positions with hanging pieces and tons of potential tactical strikes. Why? Such positions provide both player...
2020: The Year of Chess I think that all of us can agree on this statement: 2020 was a tough year. It was tough for the whole entire world, as we dealt with a pandemic that took away millions of lives and jobs. However, for the chess...
One of the greatest controversies of 2020 (not really) came in December when I posted my Ultimate Poll: "What is your favourite chess gambit opening?" Of the exhaustive wikipedia.org list that I used, I did not include the most important chess g...
Through ChessDojo, we have been running a steady stream of opportunities for people to practice playing chess, through casual tournaments. At least once per week, we have a rapid tournament, or match, and there have also been blitz tournaments and...
Recently I've read several nice blog postings, such as this one, featuring Tigran Petrosian. They reminded me of an interview published in "Chess Life and Review," May 1976 (pp. 271-273) after Petrosian won the famous Lone Pine tournament. ...
Hi, Caissa’s friends. Reading Chess Books is a very interesting way to learn and improve at Chess. I have been reading many of them during my career, and in this post, I want to talk about 4 of my favorite Chess Books. Something all these bo...
Happy New Year everyone, I hope your 2021 is off to a good start! It’s been a while since I did any games or analysis on my blog, so I’ve decided to show some of the games I played at the end of 2020 as part of a classical (60m+10s) do...
One of the things that makes the royal game beautiful is that everybody, including the people at the very top level, are learners. However, novice players like me, myself and I, have a ton more to learn and do rather funny mistakes along the way. ...
The idea for this blog came from Olya @MomOnaBreak and her Chess With Benefits post. There she visited Paris and took a chance to play some chess in the Luxembourg Gardens. From New York's Washington Park, via Belgrade, to Moscow chess players g...
Pablo Moran Santamaria is not a player many will have heard of, but he was a respected chess journalist who wrote an acclaimed biography of Alexander Alekhine. In 1955, against a fellow Spaniard, he also played a masterpiece that rivals Alekhine's...
The Sack of Rome is the name that was given to Zsofia Polgar's (Zsófia Polgár) achievement in the 1989 Rome tournament, in which she made a performance of 2900 points of elo rating, with 8.5 points out of 9, with only 14 ye...
My yesterday's Pawns Adventures: Always Play from the Position of Strength blog has never showed up on the Blogs page. It did show up on the Today page for a while, then disappeared. So I decided to create a shorty just to check the blog's ...
Hello everyone! Many of us have looked up upon GMs as these godlike chess players, and that's because they are godlike chess players. However, that doesn't mean that they aren't human, and that they don't make mistakes. Because they do. So in...
Hey guys! Today we learn a new opening: Trompowsky Attack. Something good about this opening is that you won’t have to study a lot of theory (it avoids strong and theoretical variations like King’s Indian, Queen’s Indian, or Grun...