Hello everyone, welcome back to the 2nd part of the series 'Putting on the bind!' Today's game is a special squeeze by the Iron Man of Chess, Tigran Petrosian. Let us revise what we have learnt. Bind is a strong grip or stranglehold on...
Anatoly Karpov is one of my favorite chess players. He demonstrates perfect harmony in his chess games and thrives at one of my weak points: anticipating his opponent's ideas. In this game against Jan Timman, he finds a brilliant prophylactic move...
Emanuel Lasker (Wch: 1894-1921) Among the world champions, Emanuel the Second is known as (one of) the most gifted defensive player. Reigning between 1894 and 1921 he could perfectly read his opponents' intentions, being able to look a few mo...
About 2 months ago I had prepared a lesson for my 8-year-old student about pawn endings (key squares and opposition). To my surprise the 8-year-old was able to solve every endgame I presented to him perfectly and immediately. I was intrigued and a...
Hi chess.com friends, welcome back to a new series. Here we are talking about 'Bind', what it means, and an example. It is very much like a squeeze, and putting pressure on the opponent- usually relating to subjecting the opponent into passivity. ...
One tournament is unequivocally the best event of the chess calendar: The chess Olympiad. Held every two years, it brings together thousands upon thousands of players, journalists, spectators, arbiters, organisers and chess celebrities from ...
I have watched enough lectures by GM Ben Finegold to know... Develop your pieces and castle! In countless videos the entertaining GM comments again and again when analyzing games in his lectures to a lower rated audience... "and then the GMs...
Its UAArtur, and its a new day, new week, and new My Good games at this week! Let me start my weekly report with two first-class short games! In the second game (oh, surprise!) my opponent was Mikail (not Mikhail) Tal! How do yo...
56 day and counting... whew! Glad to be back! Where did we leave off? We will have to go ALL the way back to Mounting Mastery #22 (Published June 8th, 2018!), where I documented my short-term future plans. Let's rewind back to where we left ...
Another early morning, trying to get things done, and another change of plan! The game I was going to post has recently been given elsewhere, so I will come back to it, and go with this instead. Akiba ( or Akiva) Rubinstein. A player in my all t...
Wilhelm Steinitz, before he became the first world champion in the era 1886 till 1894, was a true attacker. This game from 1863 - long before he besieged the crown and drafted his revolutionary positional theory - is a fine example of his sty...
Last week I published a massive post on London and the Greek Gift (see here). I'm currently working on a two-part post comparing the D-Pawn Systems. However, before we get to that, I wanted to shortly follow up on on our previous topic. Previ...
1 Top 5 Pirc Defence games This is my blog from the thirtieth of August, and in twenty days it has become the absolute leader in viewing. This is part of my "Top 5" series, in which I share my notable games. I am an e4 player, but...
Greetings! This is a rapid (G30) USCF rated tournament game from the Parma Chess Club. I played the black pieces against Dave Bumba, a 1700-1800 USCF player. Bumba challenges my Scandinavian setup with his bishops early, not allowing my usual ...
Hi everyone. Here you have another artistic endgame. It was created by Gorguiev and published in 1930. I think this one is not as tough as some others we have seen in this series, but I find it very interesting. The way black defends in move one i...
FM Arne Jochens is back by popular demand! After receiving rave reviews on his first seminar about punishing positional mistakes, Arne decided to teach a second installment. This live online seminar will be held on September 30th, 2018. See de...
Hello my chess friends. In this post we are going to analyze another artistic endgame and I will try to explain it so you understand every line. Almost all my friends and students hate studios, but, for some reason I love them, that’s why I ...
On my blog I'd like to share with you some decisive manoeuvres from the former world champions. We are bypassing the narrative. I only ask a little bit of your concentration. In the fragment below another example of Aljechin capitalizing o...
Hi! Have you guys heard of Herman Pollmaecher? Me neither! But in the following game, he beats Anderssen from the White side of a Ponziani Opening! This game I found in the fabulous book by Tartakower and dumont, "500 Master Games of Chess"...
Hi friends. Today, I am going to give a few Mate-in-2 puzzles and this will serve as a small test for your imagination in chess. Don't take these lightly, some can be quite hard! The difficulty level increases after every puzzle. Are you ready f...
Hello my chess friends. Today we are going to talk about rook basic endgames. Rook endings are the most common in chess, that’s why they are so important. You must know how to play in winning positions with a pawn in advantage (Lucena), and ...
During my recent trip to England one of the more fun things I did was to record a video together with my friend David. Our idea was to show how a lesson with a grandmaster looks like. My training process is centered on improving the student&rsqu...
On my blog I'd like to share with you some decisive manoeuvres from the former world champions. We are bypassing the narrative. I only ask a little bit of your concentration. So please sit back... and enjoy In the following example w...
"I used to say I was the best player in the world, and everyone said I was an arrogant, terrible, conceited person. But it's just an obvious fact." -Bobby Fischer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxd4EFIGVv0
This is a standard game (G15/10) played on chess.com. I played the black pieces against grigoru who chooses the Tennison Gambit against my Scandi center counter with d5. This opening is almost like a reverse Budapest Defense with it's own bag of t...