O.K. If this rather long article reads a bit like a chapter from a book, well, that's because it was written as a chapter for a book!! Sadly, at the last moment the work was deemed surplus to requirements. On the good side, I got the rights to t...
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,...
Hi chess friends! I'm very happy to share with you a very exciting game that I played in my last tournament. This is a game that I played in the Summer Prague International Chess Tournament, I played against Mateusz Gorkiewicz from Poland. I'm...
Carl Schlechter is one of the most under-appreciated chess masters to play the game. He may also have been one of the least ambitious. Schlechter emerged on to the chess scene around 1893, when today's featured game was played, and he soon was s...
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. The starting time in the ...
Dear Chess Friends! You probably know I’m a chess player and a coach. I often meet blunders in my students’ games. And in case if they lose these games, they feel upset. However, some games can be played without mistakes, but you can...
Hello there. Welcome to the Lightning reports! Today I will recap my experience at the 2022 Denker Tournament or Highschool Champions. If you don't know what the Denker is, it is essentially the national highschool chess championship, but why call...
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Hey ChessKids, parents, and educators! We absolutely love the back-to-school season and want to help continue bringing the fun and excitement of chess to classrooms and other learning environments. Check out our Fall 2022 Back-to-School Checklist ...
Rudolf Charousek is one of the great and tragic figures of early chess. A romantic player, he won many beautiful tactical victories. His best games flow freely with tactics and are a joy to witness. In Nuremburg in 1896, he even beat the reigning ...
Like a kaleidoscope, we can look at Chess from a variety of perspectives! A look at the Articles and Blog Posts here at Chess.com shows the huge variety of reflections on different aspects of chess. Truly amazing! The Crossword here is a 'Mixe...
Hey ChessKids! As summer is sadly coming to an end, let us recap some of the biggest ChessKid events of the season: London's ChessFest 2022 and the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad. ChessFest 2022 On July 17, 2022, ChessKid joined the gathering of c...
The pairings for Round 1 of the World Chess League.Live have been announced, but don't worry it's not too late to enter- and it's free! Nearly 100 teams have signed up already, including Kyiv Chess Club, Harvard University and Cambridge Un...
Promotion play, especially the surprising need for underpromotion, is a popular feature in composed problems. The Allumwandlung theme amplifies this idea and it indicates that all four types of promotion – to queen, rook, bishop, and knight ...
Today we know that a world championship candidates tournament does not necessarily lead to a title defense by the reigning world champion, BUT does the existence of a world champion lead to a candidates tournament? That seems to be the case in the...
Hi chess friends! I'm very happy to share with you a very exciting game that I played against a 1600 fide rated player in a rapid tournament. I made a very nice attack with an exchange sacrifice. I played as black the Sicilian Dragon.
Double The Bugs! Chess is usually an individual game that is played between two people. However, there is a variant that requires teamwork between two players to win the game. On chess.com, this is called doubles bughouse. It is similar to bugho...
Afternoon everyone. Quick, cheap and cheerful today!! Taken an afternoon off from the realities of life for those of my age to throw this together - got 5 hours, and the feature game will take at least 3 to annotate, so no frills stuff today! ...
Dear Friends, 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. The starting time in the different time zones will be: noon Los Angeles time ...
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. For this week, I have selected 10 positions from the 44th Chess Ol...
This report has come in a little late due to travel home over the last few days but the Olympiad came to a close several days ago and it featured a nail-biting finish where a talented Uzbekistani team (who remarkably had an average age of only 20)...
Dear chess lovers, I want to present you with a few games that pivot around a particular theme in the Ruy Lopez. I first encountered this theme while looking at the game Bronstein-Keres, Budapest Candidates 1950. This was the last round, and Bro...
The 1900s were a chess decade in development. Just as the world was observing rapid modernization, the chess world was also modernizing. Lasker remained the reigning world champion at the decades outset, but he had not defended his title since his...
Dear Chess Friends! I'm back from vacation and ready to continue our weekly events. This week I suggest to warm up, play a few blitz games and have some fun! That's why, I would like to invite you to my Blitz Practice! I’m going to play ...
