Hi, friends! In 2019, I started a series where I dedicated a whole post to analyzing a puzzle from Chess.com. The point is to explain my thought process to getting the puzzle right, and hopefully, this will be helpful for readers to understand tac...
Today I would like to look at one of my favourite games of all time! This game was Gledura - Anand and was played in 2016! There were three big points of the game that made a big impression to me from this game. Lets check them out! Bh7+ w...
Hi everyone, welcome back to my 4th blog post! Volume 4 of the Road To Master Series. This past weekend on July 2 & 3, I competed in the 2022 Mississauga Summer Championship! This tournament was a bit smaller than my last one but this tim...
Of all the matches that never existed, one of the ones that I most would have liked to have seen is Duras-Lasker circa, let’s say, 1911. Duras rarely appears in the best-players-not-to-be-World-Champion conversation, but he’s one of th...
Akademia Eneasza prepares some materials about improving positional skills. Frankly I just use the method from Mark Dvoretsky's books called positional pictures. Have a look. First of all we have to find an appropriate position from game. Sec...
Recap of the final four games and overview of the standings. How did things turn out compared to how you expected? Do you think Magnus will play in the next WCC? The ChessGoals Candidates sale is ending soon, so make sure to check out the link i...
Hello there. Welcome to the Lightning Reports! Today I’ll be reviewing the 2022 Fide Candidates tournament as I look at how each individual player fared in the event and see how far off my predictions were. As a reminder, I predicted that ...
Hey ChessKids! Results are rolling in! Let’s take a look at some brilliant young chess winners from the ChessKid Candidates, Youth Speed Chess Championship, and Region 6 of the European Team Festival. ChessKid Intercontinental Candidates...
The American Opening There are a lot of openings that are named after nations, such as the English, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian-just to name a few. But this got me thinking if there were more obscure openings that were named after nations. Surpr...
With GM Ian Nepomniachtchi clinching the 2022 Candidates tournament with a round to spare, the chess world knows one participant in the upcoming 2023 World Chess Championship. And although it is GM Magnus Carlsen's right to defend his title, there...
Akademia Eneasza prepares some materials about improving positional skills. Frankly I just use the method from Mark Dvoretsky's books called positional pictures. Have a look. First of all we have to find an appropriate position from game. Sec...
An exciting round today in terms of the race for second place! I recap all four games and then we go through the standings and odds to finish 2nd. Also, check out our website after the video for our Candidates sale. Who will win tom...
10 positions for you to solve and enjoy!Hello Friends! Every week I select 10 positions ranging from easy to difficult across various themes like tactics, strategy, endgame, defense, etc. for you guys to solve and enjoy. For this week, I have sele...
Afternoon everyone, with apologies for my absence of late - real life issues to deal with. I managed to make some time this week to get my head in a book - this one - As you know, I am not really into the biography side of chess players, bu...
Dear Chess Friends! I’m sure you always get disappointed when you blunder in a chess game and as the result you lose the game. But what if I say that everyone blunders? Even World Champions. Can you imagine Garry Kasparov blundering a rook...
Akademia Eneasza prepares some materials about improving positional skills. Frankly I just use the method from Mark Dvoretsky's books called positional pictures. Have a look. First of all we have to find an appropriate position from game. Sec...
Here is a position that I have seen come up in Puzzle Rush from time to time. It has occurred many times in my games. I call it the Pivot Maneuver.
Last weekend the finals of the 2022 French Chess Cup (Coupe de France) took place in Paris. The Cup is a knockout-style competition with the teams made up of four players. It ran from October 2021 to the end of May 2022 and involved about a hundre...
The Ruy Lopez has a rich history in the game of chess, it's been played by every range of player and it's themes are extremely deep, but this may sound a bit daunting for new players so in this blog I wish to break down some of the basics of the o...
Hikaru! Wanna play chess? We have the shortest game of the event so far. Check out my recaps and odds update: Who will get 2nd place?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post regarding The Skewer. In Chess, a skewer is an attack by a long range piece of multiple targets on the same rank, file or diagonal. Here is another example: In this position, the game came down to an en...
Akademia Eneasza prepares some materials about improving positional skills. Frankly I just use the method from Mark Dvoretsky's books called positional pictures. Have a look. First of all we have to find an appropriate position from game. Sec...
Unless you were born some chess genius, at one point, you're going to hit something called a chess plateau. It could be at any rating, 800, 1400, or 1700, but likely one of the most known plateaus is at the rating of 2000. A chess plateau is when ...
A huge game in Caruana vs Ding Liren! One of these players notches the win to try to either Catch Nepomniachtchi or secure second place in the event that Magnus Carlsen doesn't battle for the title. Firouzja also goes at Nepomniachtchi hard ...
Daniel Hugo Cámpora was born in San Nicolas, Argentina on June 30th,1957. He became Champion of Argentina in 1986 and 1989. Awarded the IM title in 1982 and the GM title in 1986, he led the Argentine team at the 1986 Olympiad. In the 1994 O...