#vienna #brilliant #bishopsacrifice This was a very satisfying game for the beginning of the year! This was an inter-club tournament match between "The Great British Empire" and "Team Australia". Obviously, I played for Australia! I had...
Today I cooked lunch and played 2 games in the process. It is the final combination of the 1st game: This happened in the 2nd game. The first move looks easy, but please calculate what will happen if black plays a counter-attack: Af...
Afternoon everyone. Today you get what it says in the title. A mixed bag of goodies - lessons, pictures, some great chess and a bit of fun stuff. I hope you enjoy going through it as much as I enjoyed putting it together! Let's start with the bi...
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. - Hindu Proverb Hello, my fellow chess giants, and welcome to another edition of the Osaka Papers. The Japanese chess calendar kicked off with the first FIDE rated event o...
"Your Move!" is the blog that puts YOU in the spotlight. Want me to feature you in the next episode? Submit your game in the comments and subscribe to my YouTube channel: Today, I review a game by @thepasswordis1234 in the Scotch Game. Wat...
I spent the morning and early afternoon with my daughter and when my wife arrived home, then I solved 53 checkmate puzzles and streamed it LIVE on my twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo I missed these puzzles: ...
A 9.5/11 score in the recently concluded Australian Chess Championships has seen IM Rishi Sardana claim the title of Australian champion and a $3,000 first prize after 11 rounds of play at Glenunga International High School in Adelaide. ...
Day 12 of solving a chess puzzle everyday of 2024: The daily puzzle today was surprisingly difficult: It featured a tricky zwishenzug in one of the solutions that I did not foresee in my calculations. Truly beautiful! Check it out: ...
"Your Move!" is the blog that puts YOU in the spotlight. Want me to feature you in the next episode? Submit your game in the comments and subscribe to my YouTube channel. Today, I review a game by @pompili0 in a Queen's Pawn Opening. Watch my an...
Happy New Year, ChessKids! We've had such an amazing year filled with incredible growth and success, with so many exciting events and collaborations. Recap the best of 2023 and look ahead to what's to come in 2024. 2023 Highlights 2024 Chess ...
#sicilian #alapin #quickwins #opencentrefiles #tactics Today's game is from one of my subscribers @the_nut_job, which was a low accuracy game, but had a very nice checkmate on move 12. It is also a good demonstration of some quick wi...
In the morning I had a coaching session with Kim, one of my students from Norway. We analysed his games and I share a puzzle from him: After the coaching I solved 40 checkmate puzzles and streamed LIVE on my channel at https://www.twitch.tv/at...
IntroductionWhy is it that some chess improvers will achieve their chess goals in 2024...but most won't? Something I often talk about in my recent content is the 'mental game' of chess and chess improvement. The mental game is a broad sp...
"Your Move!" is the blog that puts YOU in the spotlight. Want me to feature you in the next episode? Submit your game in the comments and subscribe to my YouTube channel. Today, I review a game by @denial778 in the King's Gambit. Watch my analys...
Day 11 of solving puzzles everyday. Here is Chess.com Day 11 puzzle - An interesting puzzle from a real game by Tartakower: Happy Solving!
Today I participated in the Puzzles World Championship on chess.com and streamed LIVE on my twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo In the first round we had 30 minutes to play as many 3 minutes Puzzle Rush as we wanted and the best...
The following article is adapted from my Substack newsletter. During the previous summer, I participated in a match in the second division of the Spanish league and a rather peculiar incident occurred before the game against a Spanish FM. A se...
In my last article, A Conversation w/ MVL, Maxime mentioned the importance of giving his best when playing Magnus. And in 2023, MVL had quite a few key wins against the world #1, including back-to-back wins to clinch the AI Cup and handing Magnus ...
Day 10! Another pretty easy puzzle from Chess.com (maybe they are building up to a really difficult one for Sunday...). The title gives a big hint as to what you need to look for. See if you can solve it: Day 10 Day 7 ACM ...
"Your Move!" is the blog that puts YOU in the spotlight. Want me to feature you in the next episode? Submit your game in the comments or on my YouTube channel. Today, I review a game by @ChessKy538 in the Spanish Game. Watch my analysis and visi...
I started the day by solving 62 checkmate puzzles on the LIVE stream at my channel on https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo As a warm up I share a few of them with you: I missed these: You can solve all the 62 puzzles wi...
"Your Move!" is the blog that puts YOU in the spotlight. Want me to feature you in the next episode? Submit your game in the comments or on my YouTube channel. Today, I review a game by @The_turtlepro in the Giuoco Piano. Watch my analysis and v...
#gambits #countergambits #fpawn #resource #research What do the King's Gambit, Vienna Gambit, the Jaenisch Gambit, and the Grand Prix Attack have in common? Well, they're all common and tricky openings that are potentially very...
Day 9 of solving Chess.com's puzzle of the day This puzzle features a small predictament for us. How do we break the pin on our queen? In this position we play a clever move to create a new threat:
