Today I created 8 exercises from the games of the Titled Tuesday Tourney. This checkmate could happen from the Benko-gambit game: He prevented this line: How can black win? We may have tactics in the endgame too: How can bl...
Richard Feynman said it nicely “Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention.” I not only paid, but I stole something from a man who has coached legends like Kobe Bryant and Christiano Ronaldo, Rafael Nadal, and others. ...
I created 7 exercises from the game I played against an Jamaican FIDE-Master. He could checkmate me a few different ways. This was his first possibility which I prevented: I won the game this way: How can black win? checkmate in 3 mo...
Another somewhat ghoulish event from wartime Berlin. The tournament was one of several Bernhard Kagan-organized events. If the Lasker-Tarrasch match of 1916 had the aim of supporting a war charity, these 1918 events had the more limited and crucia...
GM Kevin Goh Wei Ming and WGM Gong Qianyun edged closer to local legend IM Tan Lian Ann’s 10 Singapore Championships titles with by claiming the National and National Ladies titles for their 8th and 9th time respectively though at some point...
Today I created 14 exercises from the game of Salvador who is one of my students from Puerto Rico. This was a treat How can Black save the game? How can white convert his advantage to a victory? How can black save the game? ...
Would you like to play the opening like GM Hikaru Nakamura?Here's the short answer to that question. For the long answer, continue reading!In this post, I'll share with you some games by played by Hikaru with his most effective system with Bl...
Hello, my fellow daily chess lovers, and welcome to my report on the second round of the Chess.com 2023 Daily Chess Championship. In the 1st round of the Daily Chess Champs you feel like Paul Morphy, in the 2nd round you feel like NN. ~ Sheldo...
On November 9th, 2022, US Chess made an update regarding FIDE hybrid events. They would not approve it to count for over-the-board (OTB) rating anymore, and would instead only count it for online rating. Along with that, there are now growing call...
I created 8 exercises from my games of the last Titled Tuesday Tourney. I found this idea in the game and prevented it: How can black increase his advantage? How can black win material? This was a deep combination which I could not c...
I share 10 exercises which I created from the games of my students Ben and Gabriella. Gabriella's checkmate: This was an another way: How can white keep the attack going? How can we give a checkmate in 3? How to continue the atta...
Afternoon everyone. Last time round we had the pleasure of being joined by my friend Hans Renette, which reminded me that there is a book in pre-publication which I am desperate to get my hands on. I have done small blogs on both of them, w...
I created 11 exercises from one of my Titled Tuesday Tourney game and from one of the games from one of my students Raphael. How Can Black win? Raphael won this way: White has an extra piece, how should black react? How can black gai...
Hi! Creative geniuses like Geller and Bronstein intersect today in this theme....sacrifice your Queen on c4! Bronstein's game has an interesting story. In the 1960 Mar del Plata Tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bronstein was due to play ...
Yesterday I played in the Titled Tuesday Tournament and I created 9 exercises from those games. I made a lot of blunders and got 5.5 point out of 11 games. I was sad about the blunders. I would like to improve my openings and calculation. I plan t...
Today I created 7 exercises from the game I played in the Titled Tuesday Tourney against National Master Sergei Mihajlovskij. I got a few chances to win in the endgame: We need to be careful even with an extra pawn! Why? How can Black win th...
Greetings, welcome back to the Hornet Editorial. Have you ever wanted to be a Top Blogger? What does the job entail? Well, I talked with several avid Top Bloggers here on Chess.com and they told me their many good and bad experiences as a blogge...
In this final article, we take a look at the modern World Champions all the way up to the newly crowned king, Ding Liren. Anatoly Karpov Garry Kasparov Vladimir Kramnik Viswanathan Anand Magnus Carlsen Ding Liren ...
As hard as it is to imagine a Lasker-Tarrasch match in 1916, it’s more difficult still to envision Rubinstein-Schlechter in Berlin in 1918. Schlechter would die of malnourishment in December and there’s something very ghostly about pla...
Today I created 8 exercises from 2 of my Titled Tuesday games. In the first game I got a bad position from a Rossolimo sicilian, defended well and won by a strong pawn in the endgame. In the 2nd position I played the exchange variation of the Ca...
Hello, my fellow chess tournament goers, and welcome to another edition of the Osaka Papers. Here in Japan we have just finished celebrating Golden Week; from April 29th through May 5th a number of national holidays are favorably clustered togethe...
Today's 10 exercises were created from a game played by Kyle, one of my students from the United States. This was a missed possibility to give a checkmate: How can white attack? Black made an opening mistake. How should white react...
Hi everyone! 😊 It hasn't been long since my return from Astana and the World Chess Championship Match, but it feels like it was so long ago! 😊 And now, these days you can already observe Ding Liren and Yan Nepomniachtchi participating in the Gra...
“Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.” - Rocky Balboa Imagine playing chess without making blunders, without those painful and heartbreaking moments...
