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...
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...
