Today's 10 exercises are from a game I played against an Indonesian Woman FIDE Master. I sacrificed a pawn in the Catalan Opening and was able the checkmate her. This was the final idea: How can black keep the equal position? How c...
Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) was a British chess player. Nicknamed "The Black Death", he dominated the British scene during the latter part of the 19th century. Blackburne learned the game at the relatively ...
Did you see today's Daily Puzzle? The position was reached on September 25th, 1906 in New York. The game was played by José Raúl Capablanca and Robert Raubitschek. The following is my commentary on the entire game:
Today I created 10 exercises from 3 games. I lost 2 King's indian against Grandmasters and I won in a Tarrasch against National Master Michael Buscar. Grandmaster Rustemov finished the game this way: This was my winning move: How can bla...
I played the Pirc defense and got a better position out of the opening. I won a pawn, but the 2nd pawn was poisoned and lost a knight. I decided to fight and won back the piece and in the endgame won the game. I prevented this nice finish I...
What are the most lopsided matches in chess history? Fischer-Taimanov and Fischer-Larsen in 1971. Lasker-Janowski in 1909 and 1910. Capablanca-Kostić (1919) is right up there — a classic demonstration of degrees-of-excellence in chess, of ...
I created 11 exercises from the game I played against an International Master in the Titled Tuesday Tourney. I played the Catalan opening and got an advantage and played well until the final move when I made a mouse slip and lost my rook. How ca...
I'm very excited for the release of my third Chessable course "The Benko Blueprint: From Theory to Practice" focusing on a newer way of playing the Benko Gambit (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 e6!) and learning all about "compensat...
ChessKid is kicking off the summer with its 4th annual Youth Speed Chess Championship event! Top young chess players from around the world will compete for a total prize fund of $5,000 starting June 10th. The ChessKid Youth Speed Chess Champio...
Dear Chess Friends! Are you looking for an opportunity to showcase your chess skills and compete for prizes? Well here is your chance! We at ChessLance are very excited to invite you to our next Blitz Chess Tournament! Our tournament is open to ...
A FIDE-master played the english opening against me. I got an advantage, because I got active knight and a strong g7 bishop. The penetration of a knight won the game. I prevented this idea: How can white attack? What is the quickest way ...
Pokemon is a free-roam game where the player goes around a big, vast land trying to find and enslave hundreds of different little creatures, and eventually making those creatures fight for the trainer in battles. All Pokemon are assigned a type, l...
I played the Grand Prix Attack against Grandmaster Sergei Zhigalko. He got a small advantage from the opening. I defended well and got even a small edge, but missed a tactics in the time trouble and he won in style. How can black finish the game...
You need to be of my generation to recognize the title here! Looking for something else in one of the volumes of Magyar Sakktortotenet I came across some nice games of Miska ( Max) Weiss, a player who had the chance to play for the World Champio...
Greetings welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! Today, we explore the life of World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer, whose brilliance and competitive passion drew the attention of the world. At a young age, he gained notoriety, and then of course h...
Yesterday I played with Ben Edgell. I played the Catalan and he replied with the aggressive c5 and b5 to sacrifice a pawn for a nice center. He got good compensation, but I defended well. I created 10 exercises from the game: A checkmate f...
My opponent played the Panov Attack against the Caro-kann defense. He sacrificed a piece to force the Perpetual checks. I sacrificed an exchange to play on. In the exciting rook+bishop+knight versus 2 rooks endgame he missed a tactics in the end. ...
The story of the 10 exercises. A few days ago I played a blitz game against an American FIDE-Master. He played the dragon variation of the sicilian defense. I forgot my line and got in trouble quickly. He sacrificed a pawn on the queenside and use...
Matthew Sadler is a very strong grandmaster (2694 at age 49) and one of the leading computer chess experts. In 2019 he wrote the award-winning Game Changer with Natasha Regan about AlphaZero, and in 2021 he published The Silicon Road to Chess Impr...
Hello there, welcome to the Lightning Reports! So... an interesting topic today. Some of you may know this already, but I'm a huge NFL fan. I'm basically obsessed by now. I mean, I'm a chess master, and I'd rather watch football than chess. Easily...
When you think of an International Master, you likely think of a studious person who spent most of their life learning chess, a vicious convict definitely doesn't come to your mind. However, Norman T. Whitaker is a cosmic exception to this. Althou...
I created 10 exercises from 3 of my recent 3 minutes games. I got a great position against the Dutch defense. I got a worse position from the King's indian defense. I got also an advantage from the Catalan. This line I analyzed: I missed...
Today's 10 exercises are from 3 games I played in the last week's Titled Tuesday Tourney. In 2 of the games I played the Pirc defense and got a fine positions in the middlegame. In one of them I got a strong attack on his king. I overlooked this...
There are two great opening innovation stories that both come from 1918. One is the introduction of the Budapest Gambit — a group of minor Hungarian masters passing on the secrets of the Budapest at a tournament in Berlin, which led to the a...
Today I created 10 exercises from 2 games which I played in the Titled Tuesday Tourney. I got a big advantage using the Pirc defense. In the other game I won a nice bishop versus knight endgame. I prevented this finish: I missed this chance ...