Afternoon Everyone. In the comments to my last offering I mentioned that Najdorf had earned Fischer's respect at the Santa Monica 1966 tournament by crushing him. In the same tournament Fischer won a really beautiful game against Najdorf! Todays...
Today Alexandra Kosteniuk won a spectacular game against Ana Muzychuk. Muzychuk seemed to have the advantage on the kingside, where she had advanced, and at the critical moment, Kosteniuk surprised her opponent by sacrificing a pawn, and then the ...
About 8 months ago, I wrote an article entitled 7 Levels of Blindfold Chess Exercises for Everyone. Recently, I decided to do a little update on that set of exercises by elaborating on one of them and offering a new one in a video on my Youtube ch...
Hello there! As all of you have enjoyed Part One and Part Two of the chess memes, I am here again with Part Three now! Let's jump into the memes directly. Don't forget to tell me which one you've liked the most! #1 #2 #3 #4 ...
Hi, friends! I've attached the video I used to answer AMA (ask me anything) questions. Thank you for the very interesting submissions, and I'm looking forward to doing this monthly! --------------------------------------------...
Hey guys! If you like to Attack and take the initiative from the beginning of the game, this post is ideal for you. These are the 10 Most Aggressive Chess Openings, including variations for both White and Black. Another interesting fact...
Chess books are part of the lifeblood of chess! Books instruct, inspire, and help shape our chess play in many ways. Insights from books become part of our character as chess players. They help us to become better players and greatly deepen our ...
Dear Chess Friends! I’m sure most of you play 1.e4 as white and had to face with a huge number of different openings and deviations. Some of them are playable and offer approximately even play for both players. However, some are just traps...
Britain’s biggest-ever outdoor chess festival, ChessFest, was a roaring success with 6,000 visitors enjoying a day of sun, chess and fun at Trafalgar Square in central London. Chess fans watched live chess games with actors, and took part ...
#chess #universities The LANDAU OPEN CUP 2021 is an international online chess tournament between UNIVERSITIES all around the world, organized by a group of students. Previously they organized a number of massive competitions between universit...
As Part One of the Chess Memes went pretty well, a lot of you have asked me to come up with part two! Here are another twelve memes. This time we have Mikhail Tal on board. Let's jump into the memes directly. Don't forget to tell me which one y...
By Guest Contributor Grandmaster Peter Prohaszka: In the second round of the World Cup, the strong GM Baskaran Adhiban created a beautiful attack that I suspect was a result of a deep and thorough preparation. Let's have a look at this gem of a ga...
Congratulations to ALL on the International Chess Day!We wish that your favorite game will always give YOU inspiration and joy from new achievements and victories!A day earlier in Kharkiv was held the Championship of the Kharkiv region among men i...
A few months ago ChessBase released Fat Fritz II, setting off a firestorm of criticism from the open-source chess community. I covered that controversy in a previous blog post, predicting that nothing would result other than a lot of shouting. As ...
Just before retiring from chess at the age of 24, William Napier played a string of matches in England against strong opponents - Henry Atkins, Richard Teichmann, and Jacques Mieses. I probably would skip over these if I weren’t so fond of N...
Nowadays, everyone has a lot of opportunities to learn the theory and try to trick their opponents with a trap or an unsound gambit. For example, Stafford Gambit in Russian Game (Petroff Defense). I’m talking about this position! It almo...
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GM Arnold Denker was known as the Dean of American Chess. Born in 1914, Denker was a fixture on the American chess scene until his passing at the age of 90 in 2005. He was US Champion in 1944 and defended in a challenge match in 1946, and he org...
Hello beautiful people, Back at it again with another video lesson, thank you so much for all of the comments on the recent post as well as coming to say hi on the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/japanesetutor I appreciate all of you. Here is ...
“Pawns: they are the soul of chess, they alone determine the attack and the defense, and the winning or losing of the game depends entirely on their good or bad arrangement." Francois Andre Danican Philidor If a che...
Is chess a boring game? Certainly not! Chess is full of fun, especially if you take it that way. We all lose our games sometimes, but the tension walking on a thin line of the nerves- that is what keeps us alive (otherwise we all would be heavi...
Hi, everyone! It's time for this month's edition of AMA (ask me anything)! In case you don't know the drill, drop any question you like into the comments section (ask as many as you want, and whatever you want, doesn't even need t...
Hey guys! Some people say this is the Best Chess Game ever played: Kasparov vs Topalov, Wijk Aan Zee 1999. Some other just call it Kasparov's Immortal Game. The truth is that this game is fantastic, and in this Post/Video I do my best to ...
My #9 best chess game of the 1920s is a cheat—plain and simple. I'm going with two victories by Richard Reti over a young Max Euwe from their 4-game 1920 match. Astonishingly, Reti TWICE offered the ultra-rare double-rook sacrifice in the ma...
Hi everyone, I have another opening trap video for you guys, this time in a niche opening. You guys have probably seen Nakamura play this opening before but I want to take you down another path. My youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-C...