To begin on a relatively upbeat note (we’re going to need it), it should be pointed out that Arkady Dvorkovich is clearly the most able president that FIDE has had in the past 40 years. But then, given that his predecessors were the notoriou...
🏆 I am very happy with this achievement! This new variant seems to me to be excellent for Four Player chess, it seems more fair and balanced for all colors. Excellent championship, where I was able to face the leaders several times and be able t...
Hello everyone, It's been a while since I've made my last post. Today, we're doing something a little different and a little more personal. For the past few years, I've been developing a program called Chess For Seniors, and recently, we just go...
Hello there, welcome to the Lightning Reports! 3 weeks ago I played in the 2023 Queen of Hearts tournament hoping to compete against some of Alabama's strongest players. Wait, 3 weeks ago? Why am I just now posting this, you wonder? Uh. I have a t...
Greetings everyone! I haven't posted a blog in slightly over 2 years now. I always enjoyed writing but had to take a hiatus in order to play more tournaments. Since then I became an international master, and I'm currently on a quest to get the GM ...
I must confess that I have never understood why the world chess championship is so broadly considered to be as essential to the current professional chess culture as it seems to be. Of course, I definitely see the value of a competitive structure ...
Afternoon everyone, and welcome along to another of those 'my week in chess' type offerings of mine. So what have I been looking at this week? A while ago someone on the site asked if there were any books on Salo Flohr. I have two. A cheap and...
National B Chess Championship which was held from 3rd February to 8th February in Agriculture Development Bank Central Training Institute Thimi Bhaktapur. It acted as the Selection Process of 8 players in the Open Section and 9 players in the Wome...
Chess is not infinite; yet it is wide enough to baffle the human mind. While computers continue to amaze us with their capacity for calculation, elite GMs are still finding ways to stay creative. Chess is not exhausted, far from it. It is a game, ...
Now that we know what FIDE officially believes its own mission is—to be the “governing body of the sport of chess and regulate all international chess competitions”—we can move forward to address the question: Is it actuall...
Richard Réti (1889-1929) was an accomplished chess player and author. He was, as Reuben Fine wrote: 'The most persuasive exponent of the hypermodern school....Although he never was a serious challenger to Capablanca, he was invariably a hig...
Tragedy I wish I could say that this was an exaggeration. I've played a lot of games, where I make silly mistakes, and I've had plenty of games that I felt bad about afterward. However, none of those games can compare to a game that I played rec...
Mike Klein put his head and $10,000 on the line by challenging Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, to a chess match last week in his tweet. The face of Chesskid.com, FunMasterMike, is called “fun” for a reason. Who wouldn&rs...
Today in the Titled Tuesday I played with Grandmaster Kateryna Lagno who is the 5th best woman player in the World. I got a winning position: I did not find this winning combination, but my position was also good and got a much better endgam...
An attractive match between two fighting players. Spielmann and Teichmann were of roughly equal strength and a similar temperament. Spielmann was a more one-sided player - a confirmed Neo-Romantic - but both he and Teichmann were distinguished by ...
Last week I had the pleasure of chatting with the wonderfully congenial Ben Johnson for his Perpetual Chess podcast, discussing my just-released 4-part documentary Through the Mirror of Chess: A Cultural Exploration, together with Chessays, the ac...
Welcome to my blog! In case you're new, I participated in the 2023 Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Championship, where my college team (Baylor) gets to play other schools around the nation. The post is designed not only to go through the games...
Yesterday I played in the Hungarian Super league. My opponent was The Croatian Grandmaster Alojzije Jankovic. I played the aggressive Ragozin defense to get activity from the beginning. He played the seldomly applied move 5.Bd2 which was new f...
We're taking fast chess worldwide, baby! ChessKid is thrilled to announce the return of its super-fast chess event, the ChessKid Bullet Championship, but with an exciting twist: ALL players from around the world can participate, AND the time contr...
Welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! Mikhail Botvinnik was born on August 17th, 1911, in what was Kuokalla, Grand Duchy of Finland and what is now a district of Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was the 6th World Chess Champion. His influenc...
Chess lovers often ask me the super popular question "What are the secrets of becoming a Grandmaster?". I answer - "BURNING DESIRE," and they get confused. They probably expect answers like "read this book," "play this opening," "find a good...
Hello, my fellow puzzle fans, and welcome to another edition of Blitz & Memes. If you're a fan of tactics taken from amateur online blitz tournaments, then you have come to the right place, because that is what I do. As always the puzzles ha...
Dear Chess Friends! Are you ready to test your chess tactics and take your game to the next level? An ability to find and calculate tactical combinations may save the game, even if you did everything improperly before that. And this time I prepa...
