Garry
http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/08/garry/
Aranytiz round 2 - Piece sacrifice
In round 2 I was able to sacrifice a bishop to open the position of my opponent, but I played too slow and he was able to give back the bishop and exchange queens to save the game. I tried other 20 moves, but it was a draw: In round 3 I will pl...
Chess University Hiring + Executive Positions
GeniusKJ
1 day ago
Chess University, Inc. continues to reach new milestones and is revolutionizing chess education. As of this month, we are the world's first organization to offer live, graded, in-school elective chess classes that are taught entirely online. Our f...
Morphy and Me
ArnieChipmunk
1 day ago
One of the very first chess books I bought was Morphy's Games of Chess (1957) by Philip W. Sergeant. This book (I was 14 years old when I read it) made a lasting impression on me - I've been fascinated by the chess genius from New Orleans eve...
Aranytiz round 1- Positional pawn sacrifice
In the tournament there is an international grandmaster from Israel, two international masters from Hungary, a FIDE-master from England, a FIDE-master from Hungary, a woman international master from Hungary and a candidate-master from Vietnam. Yo...
Aranytiz tournament starts today
Today I start to play in a tournament. It will be a round robin tourney with 10 players and 9 rounds. I solved a lot of tactical exercises to improve my calculation. I wish I can use it and win nice games in the tourney!
A Wild Game
What could have been my immortal game. Alas... http://www.alexcolovic.com/2017/08/a-wild-game/
Famous attack Ed. Lasker - Tomas
White to play, mates by force.
My New Video
My new video is out here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUheQ-_8dz4 It's about possible Black reactions against the minority attack in the Carlsbad structure. Hope you enjoy it and find it useful!
Crazy Double King Hunt
Spektrowski
7 days ago
As those who read my blog are aware, I sometimes actually play chess instead of translating some obscure Soviet books. Today I had probably the craziest game of my life.
This game proves why the draw offer should be abolished
In my opinion, this game perfectly illustrates why we should abolish the draw offer. The (much) higher rated player got himself caught in some home preparation, and realized he’s playing against a computer, not a 2470-IM. He’s unhapp...
Sinquefield Cup 2017 - French Glory
Final analysis of the Sinquefield Cup. Vachier's last-round masterpiece, insights from Carlsen's use of intuition and Anand's brilliance among the most important points. Enjoy it here.
Augsut 2017 Prodigy Program with Karpov Detailed Announ...
GeniusKJ
9 days ago
12th World Champion GM Anatoly Karpov is teaching in the August 2017 month of the Prodigy Program - the program that helped create the youngest-ever chess master in American history! Registration for the August 2017 month of the Prodigy ...
The Most Dominant Players in History, post-Sinquefield
Spektrowski
9 days ago
Refer to the previous version for rules of admission to this table. However, I decided to throw in some wild cards this time - Ian Nepomniachtchi, who's had an excellent run recently, and three Chinese players - Ding Liren, Wei Yi a...
Perverse Incentives
(Note: I often post about all sorts of things on my own blog, www.davidsmerdon.com, which gets cross-posted here. This is a non-chess post.) One of the cool things about studying economics is that it teaches a new and exciting way o...
Live Lesson with Karpov in August Prodigy Program!
GeniusKJ
11 days ago
Did you EVER think you could learn chess LIVE from 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov from the leisure of your own home!? Do you want to study in online program that helped create the youngest-ever master in American history and is shattering r...
How Chess.com's 100-Person Virtual Team Works Together
erik
11 days ago
This month we finally hit 100 team members. Ummm, what? Why on earth would Chess.com have 100 people on staff? Fair question. And your follow-up might be, Wait, and you don’t have any offices? Anywhere? No, no we don’t. Then ho...
Nice little tactic
White to play and win!
Positional Sacrifices - Volume 1: Pawns - New Online Co...
Hi folks, I've just released the first lesson of my new (!) course for Chess University, Positional Sacrifices - Volume 1: Pawns on YouTube (video below). In this course I explore the vast topic of positional pawn sacrifices, wher...
Chess.com Wins Journalism Awards
News
13 days ago
Chess.com is proud to announce that its news team collected three prestigious Chess Journalists of America awards this year. In the "Best Tournament Report - National/International - Online" category, FM Mike Klein was honored for his...
Watch Lessons From July 2017 Prodigy Program
GeniusKJ
13 days ago
Hello everybody! Below are some free video recorded lessons from the July 2017 Prodigy Program. Be sure to watch the lesson(s) close to your rating level this week. Note online ratings tend to be inflated compared to the Elo ratings we ...
Annotated game : Santagati vs Tsekouras - Greek Team Ma...
Hi everyone :) I played this year the Greek Team Chess Championship, it was a great experience. I made a video comment about my best game Here the video ! Do you like my videos? Follow my channel ! sl.chesslogger.com/you...
My Youtube Channel
My Youtube Channel is online. Check out all the details in this post.
Sinquefield Cup 2017 - Ups and Downs
Still early to say, but things are slowly shaping up in St. Louis. Two blunders define the tournament so far, one by the World Champion and the other by Nakamura. Details here.
Fascinating Endgame Study
I kinda forgot my promise of posting more "mini-blog" posts over the summer. But I haven't had much content to post, until now... The following endgame study is part of a practice game between nOcHeaTiNgKiD and I against Hanqi in a "team chess" ga...