My one classical game with Hans Niemann was from the 2017 World Open. There we met in the 8th round, the penultimate round. He was rated a bit shy of 2300 FIDE, having reached the FIDE Master title about a year previously and having slid back a bi...
We appreciate your patience over the last several weeks as we have been working on a comprehensive report on Hans Niemann and the events following Magnus’ resignation in the 2022 Sinquefield Cup. We know many of you have been eager to hear f...
Happy National Chess Week, ChessKids! What better way to celebrate than to unlock ChessKid Gold for everyone, compete in ChessKid's first annual National Chess Day tournament, and kick off this school year with ChessKid's 'Hour of Chess Week'? ...
Hi all, I'm all right in case you've been wondering, still working on chess and non-chess books. Wanted to share a wild game I played at another site. Got three minor pieces for the opponent's queen, but then, as it usually happens with me, blund...
#1000ELO #bloglovers #blogchamps #chess-for-me #the-art-of-war #mattoscacco #blitzstream #fianchetto #winning-feeling #checkmate-or-die #suggestions #diary #my-progress Hi! I spent Saturday at home, checking blogs and stuff, and I alread...
Draws get a famously unfair bad rap in chess. As is often noted, a perfectly played game of chess is a draw. Still, there are certainly draws that can be dry, unsymmetric, and uninteresting. It's also true that draws have a dramatic disadvantage i...
Foolish Brilliance I've been playing some more rapid games recently to try and get back some rating. In the process, I've had some wacky games that I'm going to share with you guys. Game 1 In the first game, I was playing with the white piec...
Why is Nick Saban, the well-known American college football coach, playing chess with a duck (yes, it’s a duck, not a goose) in a TV commercial? Does the coach even know how to play chess (much less the duck)? More seriously, why are TV comm...
Relaxing in Kansas with Timur before helping with chess camp in Oklahoma! Hi! I have some openings available for new students. Feel free to message me about you and your chess goals, and we'll go from there. The first lesson is on the house -...
Este logro lo obtuve por primera vez, el año pasado (2021) con el Setup Old Standard, y ahora nuevamente este año (2022) se logra llegar a 2700 ELO, con Setup Omatamix New Standard; lo cual me deja muy feliz, y con muchas ganas de lo...
Johannes Zukertort was a protege of Wilhelm Steinitz, but for some time it seems as though he might surpass his mentor. The collegial rivalry between the two culminated in the first ever World Chess Championship in 1886. Zukertort could not have s...
#1000ELO #club #chessfactor #online-courses #trapped-pieces #philidor #queens-gambit #diary #my-progress #solo-chess #ambassador #topbloggers Hi all! What happened in the last days? CLUB TOURNAMENTI have been to a club last Wednesday, probab...
Last week the "Stein's memorial" was over (rapid, 10 min + 5 sec). The line-up was really decent - many national CMs as well as NMs + 1 FM + 1 IM + 1GM (average rating of top 10 players - 2328). This tournament was extremely interesting for...
Like many, if not most chess players, I have admired Tal and his wonderful games and combinations. His ability to "open up" a closed position seemed like magic to me! No wonder people nicknamed him "The Magician from Riga". Here is an example of h...
Hello there, welcome to the Lightning Reports! Way back in January, I introduced a new blog idea when I questioned several non-chess players about chess for the first time. 4 months later, I did it again. And now, given how many people have asked ...
Hey ChessKids and fellow educators! We're excited to announce that we will be helping school libraries and media centers start a chess club with ChessKid's starter kit! ChessKid's Library Chess Club Initiative aims to introduce the game and bene...
The 'action' in chess occurs on the chess board. There players put themselves into the game and try to gain a victorious outcome. But there are other dimensions to chess besides what occurs on the board; and the records of games that are p...
Once you’ve mastered the basics of chess, and you’re confident in your knowledge of the intermediate aspects of the game – it’s time to make your move in mastering the advanced chess concepts. Note that these are concepts t...
One of the most popular pop icons of all time, Madonna, is known to be a big chess fan. Her chess coach was the Scottish chess champion Alan Norris. There are even sources citing that she was rated above 2000. She has featured chess in some ...
Greco's checkmate is a common method of checkmating that frequently appears in Puzzle Rush. The checkmate is named after the famous Italian checkmate cataloguer Gioachino Greco. It works by using the Bishop to contain the opposing King by use of h...
Going Crazy A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog on solo chess, and I got a lot of requests for me to try crazy mode. Little did I know, crazy mode is absolute madness. Puzzle 1 The first puzzle looks like a whole bunch of different things are ...
If there are any world championship matches to give back - pretend they don’t exist, erase the game scores, put all the pieces back in the box - Lasker-Janowski 1910 is at the very top of the list (the other nominees would be Steinitz-Gunsbe...
To learn to play a solid game of chess, you will need to master the basics, first. These are sets of rules that, if obeyed, will help you improve the position of your pieces during the game and, eventually, win more games. That being said, here&rs...
Hello Friends! Every week I select 10 positions ranging from easy to difficult across various themes like tactics, strategy, endgame, defence, etc. for you guys to solve and enjoy. If you want to improve your endgame and positional play,...
