Would you like to play against an International Master? I am Attila Turzo, an International Master and Chess Coach and I would like to invite you to play with me in a simuls on the LIVE chess.com server with 30 minuter per player plus 30 seconds ...
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So here's yet another blog post about a chess tournament experience! This time, SuperNationals! To keep the prestige of the name, this blog post will also be "super", and will include lots of pictures and all that good stuff. I will write about al...
Chess Game Between Vishy Anand vs. Anish Giri. Enjoy!
Not easy to write posts during a tournament, so this is a short one. http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/05/llucmajor-open-2017/
This "announcement" will not come as much of a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to my chess activities, coming as it does more than a year late. I started doing occasional ChessTV shows as time permitted last year, including the 20...
Chess University's Improving Your Game Analysis video course by FIDE-Master Elliott Liu features 3 hours and 30 minutes of detailed video instruction to help students improve at analysis, especially when reviewing their own games. In this course...
Hey Chess.com! An ironic twist in this week's developers update: if you didn't notice much that looked different in the last couple weeks, that means the developers have been hard at work and doing a good job! We're continuing to make progress a...
Five-time World Champion GM Vishy Anand is back to teach in the May 2017 month of the Prodigy Program - the program that helped create the youngest-ever chess master in American history! Registration for the May 2017 month of the Prodigy ...
In November last year I made a rather extensive blog post here at Chess.com in which I wrote a bit about my research on Henry Edward Bird. It was announced as a “Part I”, but circumstances prevented me from writing a follow-up. By now ...
As an invitation to join my Inner Circle, I share with you a sample of my newsletter. In this one I suggest two ideas against the KIA (the "attack" in the name being rather misleading, in my opinion). Enjoy it here.
Continued from Part 1. Surov: I'll try to go to that. I've got a "fresh head" here on the platter, and I've been trying to attach some wires to it to make it talk. Evgeny Sidorov, hello! Evgeny Sidorov: Hi! Surov: What questions do you have ...
The interview I'm going to show you is... controversial and bizarre, to say the least. GM Valery Salov at one time was among the world championship contenders (and has a good score against many of his contemporaries), but in the late 1990s, he beg...
The endgame rook vs. bishop in the following diagram with black to move, appears to be simple. However, soon one may discover that black has some problems to draw.The square a8 is of the same colour as the squares that are controlled by...
The tournament finished some time ago, but I never had the time to take a look at it properly. Now I wanted to share with you some of the ideas I had during the tournament and also after it finished. The post is here - http://www.alexcolovic....
The QCD Sg Chess League is a joint initiative between the QCD Group and the SCF and is a refreshing and welcome change to the largely junior-focused events that we have seen in abundance in Singapore. Players have to be above the age of 20 in orde...
A dynamic battle often arises out of the King's Indian Defense. How might things vary, if at all, from the Makogonov variation? A critical moment presents itself as early as move 9. Capturing on f5 would lead to a dynamic battle, and not capturing...
Hey guys! It's been a while since Part 1 of my game analysis at Grenke Open, but finally here it comes! After first 3 rounds I had 2 points out of 3 (see more about how it happened here), with no surprises so far. Round 4 I was paire...
In my first attempt as a coach and captain I won the Italian Women Team Chess Championship with the team Caissa Italia. Wow and yay! http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/05/italian-women-team-championship-2017/
Hi Chess Friends, I don't have anything exciting to report from my most recent tournament games, but I do want to show a recent game by a fifth grade student of mine. He recently gained 100 points in a 4 game tournament by beating three higher ra...
Hi chess friends!I'm very happy to share one of my best game in Greek Team Chess Championship, I played a very interesting game with the white pieces, I hope you will enjoy my comment!If you like my videos , you can follow this link to subscr...
In the last 5-6 years, I had acquired somewhat of a reputation as an openings-based type of player who relies significantly on "having a powerful serve", as my friend Junior Tay likes to say. Additionally, my aggressive style has led GM Wong Meng ...
Here are five chess books that are out of copyright and may be downloaded legally for FREE: https://chessuniversity.com/free-chess-ebooks/ You're welcome!
Chess Game Between Vishy Anand vs. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Enjoy!
The French Winawer can very often lead to an imbalanced strategic battle. More specifically one where white has the two bishops and a compromised queenside structure, the very side of the board black looks to exploit due to the many holes in white...