Afternoon Everyone! Some enjoyable and long forgotten chess games to share with you today - another bit of self indulgence!! In my last blog, and a recent one by @kahns on Carlsbad 1911, the name of Richard Teichmann aroused some i...
The 2022 Speed Chess Championship is starting soon! Sixteen of the biggest names in chess compete to be the world's best online speed chess player. If you predict a perfect bracket, you can win $10,000! Check out the bracket announcement for more ...
We owe a big debt of gratitude to those who produce chess reference works. These works are essential for chess communities to gain perspective. We learn more about chess in its many expressions. We have a record of a wide variety of events, pers...
Discover this simple tip that'll help you save many points. Dear chess lovers, in this article I want to share one super-practical tip with you. It’s quite simple but it’ll save you many-many points. Here it is:Don’t...
Master StudyCaruana vs. MVL The setting is Paris at the grand chess tour rapid 2021. Two of the strongest chess players in the world are meeting in a heated head-to-head rapid game in the hot Summer day. Fabiano Caruana sits with the white piece...
One of the last of the great thematic tournaments, Abbazia was something like the last charge of the King’s Gambit, with white compelled to start every game with 1.e4 e5 2.f4 and scoring a meager +40-59=21. After Abbazia there were no major ...
A month ago, I had the privilege to play for my club, "Asnières – Le Grand Echiquier", at the European Chess Club Cup that took place in Austria, and now I have finally found the time to write about this unique experience. It starte...
Doing a blog has become every time harder and harder. I start having drafts that I will never post. One is about my experience with keeping clubs, which I am not so good at. One about my games in a tournament, but really, who is interested i...
Evaluation of a chess position is all about comparing the progress either side has made. The patterns will emerge quite quickly. One point worth stressing is that good calculation almost invariably requires evaluation, since ve...
Should you only solve tactics to improve if you're below 2000 online rating? How much time to spend on puzzles? Find out in this article! If you spend some time in chess forums or Facebook groups, you’ll see many posts where people ask for...
Fame and fortune are very fickle, unpredictable realities. Recently I was looking at Peter Romanovsky's book: .....and upon looking at one or two of his games, was reminded of what a great player he was! Yet I had never heard of him, unt...
Middlegames are often messy and complex, with most (if not all) of the major and minor pieces still on the board, they don’t lend themselves to rigorous study or memorizable positions as with openings or endgames. The nature of the middle ga...
Ever since I had my first child eight years ago, most of the new friends I made were mommy friends. Together, we built sand castles in the sandbox with our little off-springs; exchanged cookie recipes, agonized over our babies’ unexplained r...
In 1950, FIDE officially established the Grandmaster (GM) title. In that year, it awarded the title to 27 of the past and present top players in the world who were still alive. None of these were women. Vera Menchik, who had played against high-...
Which openings should I play? “What are the best chess openings?” is one of the most common questions I get asked as a Grandmaster.Every one of us whether asked this question or got from someone. This article will end your confusion ...
Happy November! It's time to get back into the swing of things and improve your chess. In a previous post, I went into detail about how to gain 400 points in 12 months. Two activities stand out as the most important for chess improvement. Play...
Ensuring fair play and protecting the integrity of the game is a priority for Chess.com. We believe that our members should have a voice in how we handle cheating in chess, and in an effort to understand the community's sentiments better, we share...
ChessKid's rising chess prodigy, FM Tani Adewumi, will face ChessKid's Youth SCC 2022 winner, IM Yagiz Erdogmus of Turkey, in the upcoming "Tani vs. The World" episode! Catch the exciting match on November 20, 2022, at 7:00 AM Pacific / 10:00...
Discover the simplest ideas of 1.d4 for White, through some dynamic games of the old masters! Introduction Ten years ago, I was a very dogmatic coach, who believed that was only 'one best way' to master chess. I had only just become an Int...
No matter how much theory progresses, and how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics. - GM Samuel Reshevsky Tactics are perhaps the most important aspect of chess-play. Without the knowledge of at least simple...
Here Comes the Horde! Pawns are the weakest pieces on the chess board. They can only move forward one space and can never look back. They always seem to be the pieces that are sacrificed and sent ahead on the front lines. But what if the pawns c...
Been working on this for roughly 2 years and finally it's in the app stores! Super excited to get your feedback. I've always wanted to make a really solid mobile app that is strongly inspired by Cities and knights and seafarers but that plays a lo...
There has probably never been a chess player as consistent as Richard Teichmann. He was born on the same day as Emanuel Lasker, also in Berlin, and spent his career as Lasker’s mini-me: consistently one of the top ten players in the world bu...
In today's post, I will share with you ten of the best Scandinavian games played by the leading expert of the Scandinavian Defense (1.e4 d5).But first...who is the leading expert of this opening?Is it Hikaru Nakamura? Nakamura is certainly th...
