“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...
Today I created 9 exercises from the game of one of my students. Jan is from Praha, the capital of Czech Republic. How can white give a checkmate in 2 moves? How can white attack? What is the best move for white? What is the...
Hi everyone, welcome back to my 9th blog post! My first blog of 2023 too. Volume 9 of the Road To Master Series. I know I haven't blogged in a while, recently I've been busy but I've still been playing OTB tournaments here and there. I was hesit...
I share 7 exercises from the games of my students Benedetto and Jan. How can white win the game? How can white give a checkmate in 3 moves? What is black's best move? How can white keep the attack going? This is a hard one ...
Hey chess friends, In my games this year, I've noticed that some of my most violent games have come in the quietest of openings, the Exchange Slav. I thought I'd put together a quick guide for you based on my recent practice. Isn't the E...
We have 7 exercises for today, which I created from a game which I played against FIDE-Master Peter Zentai in the Hungarian Super League. FIDE-Master Peter Zentai How can white checkmate black? What is the quickest way to win? ...
Two games, 127 years apart......a Master from France and a Grandmaster from the Soviet Union....the difference in the amount of chess theory between these two Masters is staggering; yet the same concept can be applied to different positions in dif...
Hi everyone! 😊 With some delay, I am writing my final blog post about the "Kazakhstan Chess Cup 2023" tournament. I am writing it from home now 😊. As it often happens, the last days of the tournament turned out to be very eventful and very inter...
I created 9 exercises from the games of one of my students Raphael who lives in Tokyo and originally from France. How can Raphael give a checkmate? Black played e7-e6. How to take advantage of that move? White just played h4-h5. How shou...
Will ChessKids reign victorious? Or will Streamers even the score? The epic battle of generations returns on May 14! ChessKid Stars vs. Streamers is a new series in which top young chess players play against some of the strongest titled chess ...
In Part Two, we take a look at the Soviet Dominance on the World Championship throne, starting with Mikhail Botvinnik up until its disruption by Bobby Fischer: Mikhail Botvinnik Vasily Smyslov Mikhail Tal Tigran V. Petrosian...
Today I share 7 exercises which were created from the games of 3 of my students: Kevin, Benedetto and Sahiru. How can white give a checkmate? White attacked the bishop with d3-d4. What should black do? White captured the c5 pa...
I share 7 exercises from the games of one of my students Kyle. How did he win the game? What is the only good way to defend the black position? How can black get an advantage? How can white improve his position? White captured th...
Chess is a great game, no doubt. There are tons of online events going on every now and then. Almost every one of you is participating in those events. Early Titled Tuesday, Late Titled Tuesday, Chessable Masters, Pro Chess League, and so on, you ...
As an intermediate chess player, you may have already mastered the basics of tactics and have a good understanding of chess openings. However, there is always room for improvement and further development of your chess skills. This study plan is de...
It’s a bit hard to believe that this match was played - both that anybody thought of organizing a chess match in Berlin in 1916 and also that Lasker and Tarrasch managed to put aside their differences to play a promotional match. Tarrasch's ...
*Technically posted just before April ended for me, so I still met my one post per month goal....* Yeah sorry, I just remembered I was supposed to finish this before the month ended, so this is very rushed... Hello there, welcome to the Lightn...
Today I created 9 exercises from the games of 2 of my students Jerry and Kyle. How can white finish the game? Black attacked the f3 knight with Qf6. What should white do? An easy one: White played Kd5. What should black do? Both ...
Afternoon Everyone. it struck me this week that I haven't posted any 19th century chess, or any Lasker for a while. so with what is going on today i thought it would be a good day to have a quick look at Lasker in his first tournament as World C...
In Game 8 and Game 14 of the 2023 World Championship match between the previous finalist Ian Nepomniachtchi and the new World Champion Ding Liren, we have seen the latter taking tremendous risks by brandishing what we call the 'fishing pole' motif...
Today I created 4 exercises from the games of one of my students, Kevin. How did white checkmate black? White made a mistake and black got a winning idea: How can white catch the King? This is a beautiful idea and finish. The annotat...
The final game of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2023 between Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi ended in a draw, resulting in a tiebreaker. Ding played solidly with the Nimzo-Indian Defense, but Nepomniachtchi's active play in the center gave h...
Whilst we all remain on the edge of our seats watching the current World Chess Championship between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, let's take a look back at their predecessors. In this Part 1, we will travel back to the the first official W...
Hi everyone! 😊 The Kazakhstan Chess Cup 2023 is coming to an end. I want to write a few lines and share my games. Since my last blog post, two more rounds have passed. In the 6th round, I achieved what I believe was a hard-fought victory. Howe...
