The Modern Benoni (also called the Indo-Benoni) has been the favorite of attacking players for generations. I first became aware of it through some of the games of Mikhail Tal. It seemed to fit his style perfectly! Recently I wa...
Hello followers and chess friends! I have just published the final video of my series!! If you haven't already however, please check out all of my previous video blog posts please https://www.chess.com/blog/Chessdemon2019/two-beasts-colli...
Mastering the endgame does not have to be as complicated as it seems if you follow a systematic approach. The endgame is the most important individual phase in chess because a simple mistake or correct calculation can determine the end result. In ...
I want to introduce you to my new series of articles: "How to win with Grand Master?" It combines my games from not only chess.com, but also blitz and rapid tournaments like European Chess Championship or classical events like round-robin GM torun...
'How do I become a Grandmaster?' That's a common question in the chess circles, right? Well, the more common phrasing of the question is 'How did you become a chess Grandmaster?'. But many of us (including myself, in the past) asked this questio...
OK, now this is not a command. If you are not a big chess enthusiast and this situation does not affect you very much as far as chess goes, then good for you. This message is directed at many of my readers who partake over the board tourname...
Short games and missed opportunities.
When I think about Chess combinations, I am always reminded of a recipe for soup. The first time I tried to make one, someone gave me a simple piece of advice. "Just add all the veggies you love, and boil them away in a crockpot, ta-da! A simple s...
Hello everyone! It has been a while since I have updated my blog, but that was partially intentional! In previous blogs, I have posted the videos that I have done for a video series on Instagram around my 8 Fundamental Principle for ...
Dear Chess Friends! You know openings are important. However, if you are 1200 or 1300 Elo, of course, it’s not so important. Because it’s very often when your opponent can deviate from the standard opening line and because of low lev...
Which Factors Predict Rating Gain? Over at chessgoals.com we have been crunching the numbers to help chess players reach master level. Based on a survey of almost 400 players, how they spend their chess time, and how much improvement they have se...
I haven't seen anything like this in a chess game...How could a future Blitz World Champion, and the world's youngest GM of all time, Sergey Karjakin, lose a game in only 10 moves?Even in a blitz game, that's something that 'should' never happen, ...
The Grandmaster Mindset by GM Alojzije Jankovic is an enjoyable read which increases the readers chess imagination. You contemplate the best move in a tactical position, learn a new theme, then press the solution button of Forward Chess to se...
Hi all, Today we take a break from the opening stuff and discover a beautiful middlegame checkmate technique. This will have you looking at the middlegame a bit differently and hopefully, you get some classy checkmates. If you like the content I...
In a recent post, my dear friend simaginfan published an article about the chess games of Jozsef Szen, an extraordinary Hungarian player. One of the games caught my attention, because it reminded me of another game, played almost one hundre...
Dear Chess Friends! This is FM Victor Neustroev and I'm glad to announce that I conduct our next tournament! I'm sure you were waiting for it. I received several questions about when it starts and who is allowed to play. On Chess.com or other ...
Hi chess enthusiasts! Do you already know the most typical and common mating positions we can see in chess games? In this post, we analyze some of them. This should be very helpful, because for different reasons, they happen very often, so, if we ...
Hi all, In today's post, I will be featuring 2 videos, part 3 and part 4 to the Colle-Zukertort System. This system was once my go-to opening and I used to rarely lose with it. I'm glad to be working on this series with Iteachcheckers and I h...
Hello followers and chess friends! I have just published my next video on the Fischer vs Taimanov Saga, I know many of you have been waiting for it and I thought that now was the time to make it! If you haven't already, please check out my previ...
Happy belated birthday to Ulf Andersson of Sweden, one of the greatest (positional) chess geniuses the noble game has ever had. I have tweeted on this extraordinary and exceptional chess player yesterday. And then an idea came, why not share som...
Well, it's been a while since I did anything on Hungarian players - one I have always intended to get round to was Jozsef ( other version available!! ) Szen. In the last decade or so there have been various investigations into him - ...
There is probably no good time to play a super-grandmaster like Hikaru Nakamura, but there are some bad times. The fiercest chess competitors like Nakamura, Garry Kasparov, and Magnus Carlsen have generally been most feared right after a loss. ...
Earlier this month, I played in a Grandmaster blitz tournament called the 'June Solstice Blitz Down Under'. You want to see the games? Sure, here are the two I will analyze for you today: Here's the mistake I see so many chess pla...
"In general terms, I consider that everything in chess rests on tactics. If strategy is the block of marble, then tactics are the chisel with which a master operates to create a work of chess art." - GM Tigran Petrosian (Former World Champion: 196...
Normally I prefer to analyse my students' games (long time control or rapid) against other players, rather than playing against them myself. But with everyone on the planet playing mainly online blitz or bullet these days, I have to play agai...