This was the seventh round of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2023, played between Ian Nepomniachtchi (playing White) and Ding Liren (playing Black). The game started with the French Defense by Ding, and Nepomniachtchi responded with the Tarrasc...
I played an exciting attacking game against the young South African player Levi Caleb Levitan and created 9 exercise for you. 4 moves earlier I used a lot of time to find this move which lead to a winning attack This Bf6 mistake I avoide...
What will it take America? What will it take for the wealthy and privileged in the US to recognize that we have one of the top worldwide talents. He is hiding in plain sight and his name is Abhimanyu Mishra. His father and friends call him “...
Today's 7 exercises are from mym game against International Master To Nhat Minh. In this position how black should continue the attack? How did He go to a winning endgame? How should black react white's exchange sacrifice on d4? Blac...
In the sixth round of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2023, Ding Liren (White) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (Black) faced off in a game that featured the London System. Ian went for an aggressive approach with c5, but Ding was able to control the boar...
This is an article that I have been meaning to put together for quite a while now. Vidmar's take on the 'London Rules'. I suspect that the material will provoke some interesting views! For that reason I present it with no comments of my own - bett...
I made 5 exercises from the game against Donat Daroczi, which we played in the 3rd round of the International Master Tournament in Budapest. I missed this countermove at the end of a 6 moves long combination where I sacrificed a rook. What...
On Thursday, I took part in Vladimir Potkin's simultaneous display in Moscow. I lost, of course, but put up something of a resistance.
This 'star-studded' tournament generated much excitement--and some interesting games! The event featured ten of the very strongest Grandmasters at the time, including the World Champion. The ELO ratings led this to be a Category XV event--one of...
The fifth round of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2023 featured a thrilling encounter between Ian Nepomniachtchi, playing with the white pieces, and Ding Liren. The game saw Nepomniachtchi go for a Ruy Lopez, a more classical approach compared ...
I created 5 exercises from the game against Grandmaster Milan Pacher. Which we played in the 2nd round of the International Master Tournament in Budapest. How can get black an advantage from the complications? White moved Bb3 to have a...
Almost lost in the chess history books is a phenomenal game played on this date in 1894. It was part of the 19-game match for the world championship between Wilhelm Steinitz, the first official world champion, and the 25-year-old upstart Emanuel L...
Hi!Yesterday I played in the first Olympic Esports Series - Trials tournament, which was opened for all titled players and players, who qualified from Open Qualifiers.Top four winners of the tournament play knockouts, and the winner advance to the...
I bring you 10 exercises which I created from the game I played in the 1st round of the International Master Tournament in Budapest. The opponent was an Indian talent Kshatriya, Nitin Vekhande. He just pushed the d-pawn. What should I do? ...
In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...
This is a chess game between Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi, played on April 13th, 2023, in the fourth round of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2023. Ding played the English System, and Ian responded with the e5 pawn push. Ding built a massiv...
Today we have 6 exercises from Titled Tuesday tourney games. It is a mix of opening, middlegame and endgame positions. In the first position white attacked the Black king. How should black react? Black defended the b4 knight with a7-a5. What...
The theme of a chess problem often involves a recurring motif, where certain effects are repeated in a variety of ways. Since checks are one of the most basic tactical effects, it’s natural to consider multiplying them as the focus of a comp...
Today I created 5 exercises from the game I played against FIDE-Master Alessio Boraso from Italy, Milan. I got a big advantage in the opening and an extra pawn in the endgame. He defended well and even won the game on time. Let us see the exerci...
Ian Nepomniachtchi follows the ChessGoals Queen's Gambit course recommendation against Ding Liren in game 3 of the FIDE World Championship. Does he have the course? Typically we see 1.e4 by Ian, and if he plays 1.d4, he goes for a Catalan. Ding...
Today I created 4 puzzles from my game which I played in Titled Tuesday tournament against Candidate Master Oscar Ardila from Colombia. 2 exercises happened in the game, and the other 2 I found when analyzed the game. In this position he misse...
Another tournament with Capablanca at his height. The organizing committee invited a string of European masters, most of whom, unsurprisingly, did not respond, although somehow both Janowski and Borislav Kostic shipped across the Atlantic to be th...
Already since the 3rd Soviet chess championship of 1924, thoughts had been expressed for an international tournament in the Soviet Union [see Grekov, 1937, p. 108, & Ilyin-Zhenevsky's diary]. This was organized about a year later, during Nov 1...
Here's my recap of game two in the FIDE World Championship 2023 between Ding Liren (White) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (Black), without spoiling the ending. Ding Liren surprises us first with an early h3 in the opening. They head towards a Queen's Ga...
