Last year I published a course on my favorite opening, the Trompowsky, featuring a ton of my original analysis. Since then I've been playing it as my main weapon here on Chess.com, with good results. I recently realized that I was scoring well wit...
Hey chess community. We wanted to share an update on two recent server bugs that impacted both the Bullet Chess Championship and the Clash of Claims. In the Clash of Claims, there were two separate issues: the first was an issue where GM Kramnik...
The GM Vadim Malakhatko Chess Memorial took place in Kyiv on the second weekend of June. It was a highly notable event by the standards of these days' chess life in Ukraine. The tournament's main sponsor, TOV Artedium (Dmytro Zagorovskyi), is al...
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Recently, I have been playing some games and explaining my thought process. Can you solve the challenges I faced in my recent games? The positions are taken from these games, and you can watch the full video below. I have a special bonus ...
All applications have been reviewed, and the winners have been chosen for the 2024 Chessable Research Awards! From the 2024 applications, Chessable selected three winners in the graduate student category and two winners in the undergraduate studen...
#carokann #vonhenniggambit For a while now, my favourite approach with the white pieces against the Caro-Kann Defense is the lovely von Hennig Gambit (1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Bc4!?). I first came across this opening almost two ...
INTRODUCTION Hey chess friends! IM Chessbrain here, an International Master dedicated to helping you elevate your chess game. Today, we’re diving into three critical rules for perfect queen development. By mastering these rules, you'll avo...
#quickwins #viennagambit #weirdopenings #brilliant Today’s Quick Wins article and video is a two-in-one! I played these two games back-to-back against the same Random Noob, who played an interesting idiosyncratic set up for their fir...
Hello everyone, For today's blog, I would like to show you and briefly explain a few curiosities about some of the most famous chess games that took place in fiction, whether in movies, books, TV shows, or often more than one at the same time. W...
I am finding difficulty defining this post, and that is the main reason for the title. My first intention was to center the post around the Geller-Mikadze game, and its comparison to its predecessor, the Keres-Smyslov game. But then, as I was bu...
IntroductionLike many of you, I was once a 'theory hound', delving into all the opening books and theories with fervour...However, after my tournament days, I discovered a different path that significantly impacted my results... So I always feel s...
Probably no other chess player has been as consistently amusing to his grandmaster cohort as Rudolf Spielmann. Spielmann was, by all accounts, a very simple person — the last person, really, whom one would expect to be a high-achieving menta...
Chess is a game of strategy, foresight, and tactical brilliance. One of the key aspects that separates amateur players from masters is the ability to recognize and exploit tactical motifs. These motifs are recurring patterns that, when identified,...
#modern #tactics #brilliant #rooksac One of the most exciting aspects in a game of chess is when there is a reversal. This is especially the case when you manage to transform a losing position to one that is winning through a planned...
Hello, my dear chess friends! In today's blog, I will analyse my game from Bundesliga 2 against Grandmaster Slobodjan. I was fortunate to guess my opponent's opening, giving me an excellent advantage from the start. However, I mi...
"In 50 years, a calculating machine will defeat the world chess champion," prophesied German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse in 1938. The engineer was correct; his error was barely ten years. Garry Kasparov, the world champion at the time, was ...
INTRODUCTIONUnderstanding how to effectively develop your bishops in the opening phase can significantly enhance your chess game. In this post, we will explore five fundamental rules about rooks that every chess player should know. OPENINGS AI...
#twoknightstango #tunnelvision #viennagambit #brilliant #motorcyclechess My regular subscribers will know that my favourite opening with White is the Vienna Game and where possible, I try to play the Vienna Gambit! It’s a trick...
In the chess world, elo is not just a metric that shows your skill level. It’s also a status, an ego-boost or killer, and a source of comparison and motivation to keep doing more. No matter how small or big this number is, the person it&rsqu...
Do you need help to convert your advantages into wins in your games?If so, this short training video will help you show considerably better technique This example is the first one in the classic work 'Endgame Strategy' by Shereshevsky. ...
The first event of the CCC23 series is the Blitz event. Rapid and Bullet will follow after, as well as a Classical Cup #3 between the Rapid and Bullet events. This season removes PlentyChess and Carp from the roster of engines. CCC is always loo...
The AI advances of recent years have spawned a wealth of impressive tools, from ChatGPT which creates human-like text, to AlphaZero which plays top-level chess. Another type of AI application that has become very popular is text-to-image models: t...
10 new exercises from easy to hard to challange you and train your calculation skills. The positions are from my games I played in this week's Titled Tuesday Tourney. Some positions not happened in the game only in my analysis. You can watch t...
