I've started collecting chess swindles for a new book [so if you have any good ones, please send them to me!]. Over the weekend, I visited a great little weekender on the Gold Coast and saw first-hand a fantastic swindle take place - or, rather, n...
Just the other day I was fortunate enough to stumble across the following message on twitter: At first glance this puzzle seems rather bland, but the more we venture down the rabbit hole, the greater and more beautiful it becomes. For a...
This time via video on my YouTube channel. Inspired by the folk in Tbilisi: http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/09/quick-petroff-youtube-channel/
I will start posting a series of puzzles I saw and liked for you to solve! I will not initially state who's game it is. Could be anywhere from a Grandmaster game to one of my random blitz games! White to play and win NOTE: Two...
I haven't posted in a while, as blogs seemed to have died out recently. Are there still readers? Consider this a test.
10 Year-Old Chess Whiz! This past week, the Wingfield H.S. Chess Team (in Jackson, Mississippi) hosted our first simultaneous exhibition. We were overjoyed to have our buddy Ryan Wu (USCFR 1613) stop by to play the entire team. It...
I am planning a series of posts on Fischer's opening strategy in Reykjavik so if you are into that sort of analysis sign up and enjoy your Saturday with Part 1! http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/09/fischers-openings-reykjavik/
If you haven't heard of Chess Informant, I can say with near-total certainty that you were born after 1966. For it was in this year that the Yugoslav GM Aleksandar Matanović (with Milivoje Molerović) published the first issue ...
A random selection of what I noticed in Tbilisi. http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/09/world-cup-2017-impressions/
The Singapore Masters Blitz series, a brainchild of Olimpiu Urcan, sets out to provide quality quickplay events for Singapore and locally based masters in terms of playing conditions and prize fund. The first edition had $1100 up for g...
In the 2th round of the current FIDE World Cup, Magnus Carlsen started to turn the tables at this moment. How did he continue with black pieces?
This past week HHCF did a Chess and Life Strategies 3 Day Workshop at Alameda County Juvenile Hall in San Leandro, CA. It is right on the boarder of Oakland. I always enjoy going here, because I really love my time with the kids. The only thing I ...
Hello, chess fans! Some of you may have seen my previous post where I openly expressed my desire for a successful chess future and laid out my weekly plan to consistently improve. Well, I was unable to accomplish all of my goals this week, though ...
Over the last two weeks, the youngest elite of the chess world gathered together in Brazil, to dispute the World Youth Chess Championship in the categories under 8, under 10, and under 12. Over the last several years, the state of Minnesota has ma...
So I've just returned from this year's summer attempt to make my final Grandmaster norm and many of my friends might already have known that I've come mighty close to achieving exactly that in my final event of the tour. The Legend has already&nbs...
As Erik announced a few days back, we've been at work on a bit of a passion project lately, and although it's still highly "experimental," our Four Player Chess server is available for the Chess.com community to try out! It's lots of fun, and...
The Wingfield High School Chess Team traveled to the "Catfish Classic" in Belzoni, Mississippi this past Saturday. Though our top player only garnered 3.0 points and most of the rest of our guys recorded only 1 or 2 points, we had a GREAT ti...
I don't know how I ended up becoming a chess book reviewer in my spare time, but it's certainly a fun hobby. It's gotten to the point that every now and then, I randomly receive a new chess book in the mail to take a look at - which, as any che...
How chess has evolved since Garry's retirement and another look at his problems in St. Louis. http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/08/the-best-move/
Hi Chess Friends, Tonight I had a talented student of mine play out a few endgames to practice converting good positions with the clock ticking. On his first try with one ending he found a key sacrificial idea, but played it too early and en...
Hey Chess.com! It's time for another fireside chat so pull up a chair as we dole out the newest updates and improvements. First off, we have a hard fast goal for an event many of us have been waiting on for ages. V2--the old ...
Hello to all chess fans! I will begin a new blog series called "Path to Chess Prosperity". As some of you know, I am 16 years old rated 1650 USCF, living in Waco, TX and I am part of the Waco Chess Club (even though we are very small, we do c...
I didn't get a chance to play one yesterday, so sorry for the wait! This game was okay. My opponent completely blew it early but my conversion wasn't so good. What I learned: The early Nbd7 idea screws up all of white's tr...
This week I was paired with SirIvanhoe: fellow moderator, and the person making a lot of things happen at the Slow Chess League. A quick look at the game might give the impression that you could hear a pin drop until the very end, ...
In the exchange slav I always had a great result. White players tend to play for a draw by exchanges, but in the long run they make mistakes and I won many games in the endgame. This happened again in round 7 against Bianka Havanecz a woman inter...