New year, new goals, new chess tournaments, new games, and most importantly, new skills to master. Are you willing to put in all the effort necessary to progress this year? If your answer is yes then keep reading; chances are you will get somethin...
Have you been following the 2022 Tata Steel supertournament, with Carlsen, Caruana and Giri among others?Whether you're still catching up to the previous rounds, or want to learn everything you can from the games, my two video recaps of the first ...
By 1908, Frank Marshall’s limitations as a chess player were obvious. He couldn’t compete at the very highest level – as had been demonstrated in his match losses to Tarrasch and Lasker – and there was a certain lack of gro...
Suddenly, your opponent plays a line that he has never played before according to your preparation. What should you do? First, take a break for a moment before playing your mainline home prep. I would recommend spending at least 5 minutes trying...
Sacrifice The point value of each piece is good to know when sizing up material advantage and is generally a good indicator of which side is winning. A pawn in one point, the knight and bishop are three, the rook is five, and the queen is nine. ...
Показываю как правильно жертвовать ферзя! Михаил Таль и другие шахматисты научат нас как жертвовать красиво и эффектно. Смотрите также другие видео канала: 1)🏆ЧЕМПИОН МИРА!🏆 Карпов уничтожает🥊конём🥊Корчного, 17-ая партия матча - https://youtu...
Would you like to learn how Grandmasters were able to win in less than 25 moves at the 2021 World Blitz Championship?I find these 'miniature' games to be quite useful to learn from, as we can quickly pick up some ideas and immediately see how to p...
Hello there, and welcome to the Lightning Reports. Today I'm doing something a bit different, but I think you'll find it enjoyable. I created a google form with 19 chess-related questions on it and sent the form to 2 of my friends and 1 sibling. N...
Магнус Карлсен - Дэниэл Народицкий, блиц пуля, 2021. Одна из лучших партий сыгранная в молниеносные шахматы в интернете! Столько тактики в минутной партии я ещё не видел! Желаю приятного просмотра друзья. М.Карлсен - Д.Народицкий! Разыграт...
This week’s “Chess improvement-themed episode of The Perpetual Chess Podcast, features 3 Chess Masters who are competing and training regularly, with hopes of making the significant jump "From Master to IM." For context, Internat...
How much should you trust your gut in chess? Should you, at all? It's a fact so simple yet true: you cannot see everything in chess. Even at the grandmaster level and beyond, although they see more than the general public, this still ho...
Chess players are familiar to us--their last names are etched in our memories. But what of their first names? This Crossword simply elicits 'first names' from among the pantheon of chess players we know--with varying degrees of familiarity. ...
Dear Chess Friends! Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to you all! Let’s get back to our chess lessons and learn something new. We skipped 2 weeks: one because of holidays, another one because I was participating in the rapid tournament. ...
It's amazing at how quick things can change in just one year. Obviously the state of the world has proven this theory correct the past couple of years, (unfortunately for all the wrong reasons), but still. Like many, in the fall/winter of 2020 I g...
Many of us have an experience of how dangerous the opponent’s knight on f4 (f5) can be when your king is castled to the king side. This post is to tell you about a few methods of how to fight with such a knight. The first example sho...
Hi everyone! Ben here. Although I’m a long-time content creator in the chess world, I have never blogged with any consistency. Well, its a new year, and that means that one of my resolutions is to fix that! What is the Perpetu...
Blitzen Beginning Coming into the new year, I've been playing a lot of blitz games, and recently, I've been able to reach 1700 in blitz! I usually play more rapid games, but after losing more than a few rapid games, I decided to try my luck with...
Allegedly, Radjabov said in an interview during the 2010 World Blitz Championship that “Everyone is getting tired. You might as well start with 1.a4 and you can still beat them.” Carlsen decided to test this statement against Radjabo...
The second major tournament of the Austro-Hungarian jubilee – a celebration of the 60th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph’s accession to the throne. Duras was the hometown boy and he delivered, tying with Schlechter for first place. ...
A few weeks ago the subject of early games of Spielmann came up. One neglected battle - I love chess battles - came to mind. So I went and dug it out in this rather nice book. Whilst I was there I picked out another two early games, plus one ...
What were the behind-the-scenes actions I took to have a breakthrough performance of over 2400 (half a point short of my first International Master norm) in the 2008 Australian Championship - my first ever 'open' Championship event? Learn from...
by Mitch Fabian Scores from the Endgame Challenge:Drittman: 5Morphyfan: 4Seth: 4Rengaw: 3.5Velcrodot: 3Falk: 2ChessNumbers: 1.5Lula: 1 There were two other big pieces of news beyond the Endgame Challenge: LulaRobs and velcrodot withdrew from t...
Emma’s grandmother, Galina, was a badass woman. She was an excellent chess player and loved the game as much as the guilty pleasures of life. Her husband, on the other hand, was nil at chess. So, what’s a “girl” to do? In h...
Yesterday I was reading an old junior chess magazine from 2007, which talked about my great focus and determination with regard to my chess. Sounds great, right? That's how it appeared on the outside, but it wasn't always this way...(se...
“The first major international chess tournament in America in the twentieth century” (Wikipedia) was held in a small town in northwestern Pennsylvania from April 25, 1904 to May 19, 1904. The Cambridge Springs Tournament was “one...