Life is not so much a debt to spend it on boring games. Therefore, I play gambits whenever possible. Here are five gambits I like to use. From's Gambit. This is a great way to answer the first move 1.f2-f4, and, perhaps, the main reason...
Players move up their ratings.(They are winning a lot.)
https://www.chess.com/tournament/today-i-hack-the-world-2nd-open-tournament-with-3-real-prizes-books The Winners of the tournament will receive their books in real life. Just leave me an adress, worldwide. ONE CONDITION before applying for th...
I face this opening way too often so I'll spend some time analyzing the best lines here. My middlegame play was horrible this game.
Grunfeld gone wrong. I could survive but trapping my own knight didn't help.
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i need tips for 4p chess. any at all?
chess is the only mind game that can sharpen the mind and open doors to unlimited thinking. strategizing is most important thing in life and yet chess is the only game that can help the youngest mind to the oldest. despite age and body chess is th...
Almost lost this one by not repeating moves in a worse position.
I will continue with this guide to analysis and in this post, I will show you how to break down the position into smaller fragments. How is this going to help? It is going to help you identify the important aspects of the position. Be careful here...
Now don't get me wrong. I do not want to crush anybody's dreams. Just stating the facts. Also, I want to give a huge thanks to the calculator, I could not have made this without it. All of us chess players have wanted to become a GM at some ti...
Queen + Pawn vs Bishop + Rook + Knight?!
Bad, bad play against early d5.
Connected passed pawns are strong in King and Pawn endgames.
People think that higher rated players cant fall into silly traps. Here are two of my games where my opponents fell for silly traps in a tournament. This tournament was very good for me I scored 7 out of 9 rounds and I got around 15000 INR an...
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For many years I used this blog for expounding upon my many explorations into the culture and history of chess. For just as many years I abandonned this blog in favor of publishing those explorations in the more popular article s...
After 8 years, started to play online blitz again.From yesterday's Chess.com swiss for titled players with MVL, Nepo, etc.: 1) Played a novelty 17.Rd2!?, analysed a bit in my book Understanding the SicilianOpponent wasn't ready and collapsed in...
The Na6-b4 manouver I missed is instructive.
The story about a Russian trainer accusing a 13-year-old girl of cheating led to a huge debate on our site. Currently, the report is close to reaching 700 comments. The case is another example of how dangerous it can be to accuse someone...
The Winners of the tournament will receive their books in real life. Just leave me an adress, worldwide. ONE CONDITION before applying for the tournament: After reading the book you have to give it on for free and/or pay the mail costs eventual...
Dan Garren has been playing chess for a long time. Garren was born in Virginia but has lived in the Idaho Falls area for 16 years. He said he has been playing chess for 25 years, and plays online to keep up with some of his friends and family bac...
Always consider the pawn breaks! I should have played d6 a lot earlier in this one.
This one was pretty solid all around.