Dear Chess Friends, I know that all of would like to improve your performance and gain a better rating at chess.com or wherever you play. Just playing games may help you to progress, but your results will rise slower. There are some exact steps ...
The Sinquefield Cup 2022 takes place from September 2-11, with a rest day on September 7th. Eight of the top eleven players in the world are competing this year, including World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen. In round one, Magnus played the winner of...
Pieces Variants Standard: Pieces Variants Neo:How to change the configuration of the pieces? Pieces VariantsYou are welcome to check out the variant pieces and have your say on what pieces you would like to see and use in the Standard and Ne...
Hey ChessKids! What a week. Up-and-coming chess star FM Yagiz Erdogmus accomplished an astounding feat winning the 2022 CKYSCC, and FunMasterMike is making an appearance at the 2022 World Youth Championship in Mamaia, Romania! 2022 Chess...
Here is one of the most common puzzle themes that I get during Puzzle Rush. It is cool to have gotten it in an actual game. I'm sure you've seen it many times (comment below). Here is the game in full with my own annotations and commentar...
Take up the ancestral game with a modernized four player version. Rules: ✅ Develop pieces and keep your structure solid as you build your bridge to the high-top hill.✅ Pawns promote to a rook on the 10th rank; pawns can also move one square si...
The history of chess is rich and textured. There are always interesting--and astounding!--tidbits to be uncovered. They add enjoyment to our game! Bill Price published The History of Chess in Fifty Moves (Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books, 201...
Once, when asked how the knight moves, Magnus Carlsen responded: “Like an L. And sometimes in blitz games it can be very unpredictable.” This was one of those blitz games … I was playing a casual match in a park ag...
In March 2020, in the middle of my freshman year, everyone at school got the news that we would have one week to leave campus and go home. Stuck inside for the next year, I passed many boring hours away by playing online (during classes) while wai...
Playing SOLO Chess is my favorite game in the world. But there is one problem with it. You need someone else to play with. Playing chess on a board by yourself gets kind of sad after a while. But I have been able to find a chess variation that y...
Dear Friends, Would you like to play with an International Master? I will play with 20-30 players in the same time simultaneously. The time control will be 30 minutes per player plus 30 seconds increment per move. Date: 08.28.2022. Sunday ...
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,...
Hello there. Welcome to the Lightning Reports! Today I will recap my experience at the 2022 US Open. I honestly played in this because I was already in California for the Denker, which I talked about in my previous blog, so I figured I might as we...
We are very excited for the conclusion of the 2021-2022 World Chess League.Live season! The matches, and the teams participating are listed as follows, scheduled in USA East Coast time: Saturday 27th August: 9.30 am: Harvard vs...
I outplayed GM Gawain Jones in 14 moves, in my Last titled Tuesday on the 23rd of August 2022. Which was one of the best Titled Tuesdays, I have ever played I got 7.5/11 and was with Hikaru and many other strong GMs in the Leaderboards. IN THIS ...
O.K. Got a day off today. So my head has done one of it's Dylanesque chains of thought from my last offering, and I have thrown this together. Last time round I mentioned a book project that i have been involved in. The author of that project al...
For those who want to understand more about how prize money works in chess, and how it used to, and the challenges involved in compiling prize money numbers, read on. Appearance Fees Prize money for their performance has never really been how m...
Dear Chess Friends! This week I prepared something special for you. We are going to mix entertainments and chess education. This Sunday I am going to conduct a Chess Quiz "Guess Chess Player by His Games". A winner will get a FREE lesson w...
Jimmy Adams wrote that "if there is one event which fully characterises the colour and excitement of the palmy days of Hypermodern Chess--then this must be the Baden Baden tournament of 1925" [Baden Baden 1925 International Chess Tournament: The A...
"Have you forgotten how to play chess yet?" my friend Oleksiy asked. It was a joke, but it came with an invitation: a rapid chess tournament in Dnipro city next Saturday. Can a 70-kilometer trip to a neighboring city feel like an unusual adventu...
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In the last 2 weeks I played a lot of Simultaneous games when I played with several players in the same time. This way everybody has a chance to play with an international master. I collected a few simple checkmates and tactics puzzles from the ...
The Great Tango I recently played a game that was a bit of a tango. In this game, I was playing the white pieces against a 1968 from Turkey in the standard 10 minute rapid game. But this game was nothing standard. I would start the game off ...
Discover an exciting attacking approach against the English Opening (1.c4)! In the last year, a new gambit emerged against the English Opening, as suggested by the neural network engine Leela Zero. It arises after 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 e...
