The Pirc against the London system
In this game my opponent was the hungarian international master Emil Szalanczy. He is famous about his attacking style, played a lot of nice dragon games. I played the London sytem with Nc3 and he continued to...
Komodo (3230) - Arasan (2741), Top Chess Engine Champio...
This time something completely different: I try to explain a game played by two computer chess engines, Komodo 3230 and Arasan 2741, which compete in the Top Chess Engine Championship 2017. More at: https://youtu.be/oHexZeX7d_A
Discussion With FM Alisa Melekhina On Her New Book
Anna Rudolf: Alisa, the Chess.com community is certainly familiar with your chess work, you are the author of some of the most instructive chess videos on the site, and the readers also see you regularly on the banner of Titled Tuesdays. What p...
Breaking the pawn structure
In the last game of the tournament I played with hungarian international master Zoltan Nemeth, who is the publisher of the hungarian chess magazine Sakkvilag. He played the Be3 line of the closed sicilian. I missed the move order and played ...
Active queen against rook, bishop and knight
I played the next game against the hungarian international master Sandor Farago I played the London system and he played c5 and early b5 pawn sacrifice. He could win it back with a close to equal position, but decided to no...
Send In Your Games!
EOGuel
3 days ago
Hello, guys and gals! Well... I just got off a big post, and am kinda bored with nothing to do! Haha! Just kidding! But in the meantime, feel free to send me in any games you would like looked at/analyzed by this blogger, and po...
The Maroczy reloaded
My 14 year old hungarian opponent Tamas Ongut decided to play the Maroczy Bind against me. I suspected his preparation and played a different move, than in the game before to prevent his possible exchanges. He sacrificed a pawn for some attack...
Kramnik - Inarkiev, European club cup 2017 last round 1...
In the very important game of the last round European club cup 2017 Vladimir Kramnik chose a very interesting opening system, starting with 1.c4 e5 2.d3!? - playing a sort of reversed Sicilian Najdorf position and brought his team Globus the Europ...
Pressure in the Maroczy Bind
Against the tournament leader, national master Gabriel Bick I played the hyper accelerated dragon and he decided to build up the Maroczy Bind. I had a hard time under the pressure and in a given moment I...
Tournament Announcement - Sudbury ON, Canada
FYI This year's Sudbury Championship is to be held at Laurentian University on November 4/5. Message me for more info! Thanks, Matt
The Oldest Chess Opening?
ArnieChipmunk
5 days ago
Although many chess fans find it boring, in my opinion it's absolutely fascinating that the Giuoco Piano, or Italian Opening, is so popular again at top grandmaster level. Isn't it wonderful that some of the oldest books about modern chess already...
European Club Cup 2017
An overview of the ECC with some comments about the top teams plus the wildest game of the tournament. http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/10/european-club-cup-2017/
Path To Chess Prosperity #4: 10/7/2017 Tournament Analy...
EOGuel
6 days ago
Hello, guys! Last weekend, I had yet another tournament. This was a competitive team match between chess players in North and Central Texas. Each participant plays two games against an opponent of a similar rating and the team with the mos...
Victory against american supertalent Nikhil Kumar
Yesterday I played a supertalent from the USA, FIDE master Nikhil Kumar. He is only 13 years old and his top FIDE rating was 2479. He won the under 12 world championship in 2016. He played d5, c5 with Bg4 aga...
Kramnik escapes and saves the match @European club cup!
Vladimir Kramnik saves a lost position and ties 3-3 the board 1 match of European club cup! Details in the video:) Naiditsch - Kramnik
Sacrifices in the London system
I lost a tactical battle in the London system yesterday against Ivan Sredojevic:
Everything Openings #1: My First Opening Bomb
chesster3145
8 days ago
Hello and welcome to a new series, just my second series since the formation of this blog! Let me take a moment to tell you what Everything Openings is all about. Ever since I hit 1400 about 18 months ago, I've had a ...
Underminig the center in the London system
Yesterday I played against a talented 16 years old german player Theo Gungl He played the agressive Qb6 and then c5-c4 against the London system. I think the best way to go for an advantage is an early b2-b3 and exchange the c4 pawn for ...
Struggle in the Catalan-Bogo
Yesterday I play a young indian talent Nadar Anand He started with the Catalan and I play Bb4 check to transpose to the Bogo-indian, but later He developed his g1 knight by e2-e3, Nge2 to keep his bishop's diagonal open. I played the usual d6-...
Thematic training games - The way to improve for the wo...
A chessfriend had asked me about the best way for the working professional (who has no time for private coaching) to improve his game. Should he read more books or study master games? My take was that the fastest way to get your game up to s...
The London endgame
Yesterday I started to play in an International Master tournament in Budapest, Hotel Berlin. My first opponent was a young indian player rated 2281. After my last tournament which was the worst of my life I can remember. I hope to do much better t...
European club cup video commentary
Check out 1st round commentary at my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/uEQ9yevXUC8
A vacation break...with more chess in Adelaide!
End September/early October is a decent time as any to take a vacation from chess coaching. Most Singaporean students will be starting school exams or revising for them. My wife mulled over a holiday in Brisbane or Adelaide since both have chess...
Magnus Carlsen's Singapore Simultaneous Exhibition - an...
Magnus Carlsen in Singapore In a move greatly appreciated by Singaporean chess fans, NBAS (Norwegian Business Association (Singapore) and Simonsen Vogt Wiig law firm organized a simultaneous chess match for 16 players to face the World Cha...
A Precise Attack in Bullet
I've fallen into the bad habit of playing too much one minute chess recently. The one saving grace is it occasionally leads to some nice games just because of the volume. Here's one of my better efforts from today. Enjoy!