Note: This is a cross post from my blog, which is somewhat better formatted, and follows Kenya, Part 1. While planning my trip to Kenya to research female genital mutilation, I realised I would have two or three days spare. My days of tryi...
With a smashing last-round win over Meier, Nepomniachtchi won a second tournament in a row. The last 3 rounds proved decisive - first Nepo beat Kramnik (who seems to be doing quite the opposite of what Botvinnik used to say!), then he saved a lo...
Hello my chess friends. In this post I am writing about how to be a better blitz player. It does not matter if it is Over the Board, or Online, this should help you to improve in both of them. I hope you find it useful. Play many, many, many ...
The long-awaited Positional Sacrifices Volume II: Pieces by IM Kostya Kavutskiy is now available! Enroll by end of July using the promo code EARLY20 during checkout to save 20%. Sign up here: https://chessuniversity.com/courses/positional-sacr...
Hello, my old and new chess friends! Do you like traps? How about one trap in which two players got caught this week? It was fun! It happened in an unusual gambit that I use when I see the defense of Caro-Cann on the chess board. ...
Free Twitch simul at 9:00 am on Sunday I am international Master Attila Turzo from Hungary and I invite you to join to the Free Twitch simul which will start on Sunday a...
Well, I am back after a delay, with a change of plan!! Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin!. This time last week, our third grandchild was born. A boy. He was named Xander - probably after some character in gaming, or sci-fi, but of...
When white plays the London system against the King's indian defense, then his king's position can be safer than in the usual king's indian lines, because of his dark square bishop joins the defense. Today I played a game against a USCF Candi...
The other day I was perusing through Tartakower's "500 Master Games of Chess" (which, by the way, is a masterpiece of a chess book!) and discovered one of Morphy's games, which has a pattern similar to one that occurred in one of my games..... ...
Today's first game was again against a computer assisted user, after the game, the chess.com staff marked the opponent as computer user. I made a mistake, I allowed him to get the a-file and under the pressure instead of the passive defense I tr...
Hello my chess friends. This is another special post. Today we are going to analyze a game between Wei Yi and my compatriot Lazaro Bruzon. Both of them have been over 2700, so they are really strong GMs. One of the most amazing things of this game...
Five months ago I laid out my first game on this blog. Then I got an idea and I suggested that readers choose which game is better. This was my experiment. Why not? Every month I put four games to vote (one for each week). I tried to select ga...
The Dortmund tournament is underway with some new faces and some old ones. Kramnik is trying to win the tournament for the 11th time, Giri is trying to win a tournament for a 1st time after 2011. And they were working together in Berlin at the C...
My opponent played again a strange opening after yesterday 1.e4 c5 2.Nh3. He played e6,d6,c6,f6,g6. We played a game in this opening around 1 week ago. In that game I got an advantage, but it ended as a draw. Yesterday I analysed all 3 games I p...
A few weeks ago on the Slow Chess League I played two difficult Caro-Kann games as Black, one after the other. In both games I was busted in the opening and had to fight for my life with my king in the middle, my pieces cramped on the back rank, a...
Dear Mr. Seirawan, I’m new to chess—within the past year. I play “daily chess” and rate out about 1350. I’m trying to learn as much as I can about positions and tactics through videos, books ,etc. While I have, to s...
2. Nh3 Is that a joke? I felt I should have a fine position againsg that move, but after around 15 moves I found myself under the pressure and attack against my king. I played too early f7-f5. He did not find the nice Bxh6 sacrifice to capitalise ...
My opponent played very well today the old-benoni, so after the game I decided to dive into it and spent aorund 2 hours to find an advantage for white. Looks like the lines with Bb5 and then dxe6 may give a small edge or playing Ng1-e2-g3 manover ...
Hello everyone. Today I come with another bullet. I liked the way things happened in this game and I thought it was a good idea to write some comments and share. Do not forget this is one minute for each player, so, it is very easy to make mistake...
I've got some interesting new posts planned both on the London system and on other things. In the meantime, this is a repost of a post from the pre-front page days (it has a whopping 242 views to date - let's see whether you guys can beat thi...
Выпуск Chess Team Ukraine TV от 16 07 2018
Free Twitch simul at 8:00 on Sunday I invite you to join to the Free Twitch simul which will start on Sunday at 8:00 am New York, 1:00 pm London, 2:00 pm Berlin time.The time co...
Good evening! Its UAArtur! And I have some good games for you this week. I got a good mood after them, and I wish that it was passed to you too. Ok. This week began the match of my country (Ukraine) against the Spanish national team f...
Hello chess.com. As you already know, you must work with your own games if you want to make progress in chess. As I was watching some of my games, I found these 4 positions where I played at a good level and I got some nice victories. I hope you e...
Today my opponent showed a great performance and checkmated my dragon. In the openings I overlooked a pawn. His pieces became so active, I needed to give up one pawn. I gave up the wrong pawn. He got a defended passed pawn. After winning the...