Today I start to play in a tournament. It will be a round robin tourney with 10 players and 9 rounds. I solved a lot of tactical exercises to improve my calculation. I wish I can use it and win nice games in the tourney!
What could have been my immortal game. Alas... http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/08/a-wild-game/
White to play, mates by force.
My new video is out here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUheQ-_8dz4 It's about possible Black reactions against the minority attack in the Carlsbad structure. Hope you enjoy it and find it useful!
As those who read my blog are aware, I sometimes actually play chess instead of translating some obscure Soviet books. Today I had probably the craziest game of my life.
In my opinion, this game perfectly illustrates why we should abolish the draw offer. The (much) higher rated player got himself caught in some home preparation, and realized he’s playing against a computer, not a 2470-IM. He’s unhapp...
Final analysis of the Sinquefield Cup. Vachier's last-round masterpiece, insights from Carlsen's use of intuition and Anand's brilliance among the most important points. Enjoy it here.
12th World Champion GM Anatoly Karpov is teaching in the August 2017 month of the Prodigy Program - the program that helped create the youngest-ever chess master in American history! Registration for the August 2017 month of the Prodigy ...
Refer to the previous version for rules of admission to this table. However, I decided to throw in some wild cards this time - Ian Nepomniachtchi, who's had an excellent run recently, and three Chinese players - Ding Liren, Wei Yi a...
(Note: I often post about all sorts of things on my own blog, www.davidsmerdon.com, which gets cross-posted here. This is a non-chess post.) One of the cool things about studying economics is that it teaches a new and exciting way o...
Did you EVER think you could learn chess LIVE from 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov from the leisure of your own home!? Do you want to study in online program that helped create the youngest-ever master in American history and is shattering r...
This month we finally hit 100 team members. Ummm, what? Why on earth would Chess.com have 100 people on staff? Fair question. And your follow-up might be, Wait, and you don’t have any offices? Anywhere? No, no we don’t. Then ho...
White to play and win!
Hi folks, I've just released the first lesson of my new (!) course for Chess University, Positional Sacrifices - Volume 1: Pawns on YouTube (video below). In this course I explore the vast topic of positional pawn sacrifices, wher...
Chess.com is proud to announce that its news team collected three prestigious Chess Journalists of America awards this year. In the "Best Tournament Report - National/International - Online" category, FM Mike Klein was honored for his...
Hello everybody! Below are some free video recorded lessons from the July 2017 Prodigy Program. Be sure to watch the lesson(s) close to your rating level this week. Note online ratings tend to be inflated compared to the Elo ratings we ...
Hi everyone :) I played this year the Greek Team Chess Championship, it was a great experience. I made a video comment about my best game Here the video ! Do you like my videos? Follow my channel ! sl.chesslogger.com/you...
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Still early to say, but things are slowly shaping up in St. Louis. Two blunders define the tournament so far, one by the World Champion and the other by Nakamura. Details here.
I kinda forgot my promise of posting more "mini-blog" posts over the summer. But I haven't had much content to post, until now... The following endgame study is part of a practice game between nOcHeaTiNgKiD and I against Hanqi in a "team chess" ga...
Hey Chess.com! Been a big month! We've resolved well over 500 bugs, issues, and tasks which is no small feat for sure! Of course you all are the beneficiaries as we have really cool stuff to share! We'll start with our headline feature:...
The 2017 Sinquefield Cup is what we have waited for all year... and it is only heating up. We see Magnus Carlsen dispatch his former World Championship rival Sergey Karjakin right after time control while Fabiano Caruana delivers a 110-move victor...
When you play the Benoni, you will experience a lack of space, and an imbalanced pawn structure. A good strategy for black is to seek at least 1 minor piece exchange in order to be able to move about more freely within the limited space. Given tim...
I'm talking not so much about the move (which occurred as early as move 4!) but more about feeling your inner state and making decisions and opening choices accordingly. http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/07/move-g5-sicilian/
When you play often enough on an online chess server, you start to see the same usernames popping up as your opponents. It makes for a weird social network. I recall a story where some Australian chess players met the famous Hikaru Nakamura at a t...