Salimbene di Adam [1221 – c. 1290], was born in Parma and dwelled in the central - northern Italy during the 13th c. Member of the Franciscan order, he experienced events of the Guelph - Ghibelline wars and the Italian expedition of Frederic...
Today I solved 30 hard checkmate puzzles LIVE on my channel at https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo You can solve some of the best exercises: You can solve all 30 puzzles with me in this video: ...
I was interested in making the French Defense and the Advance Variation easy to learn and simple to play with Black. Focusing on strategy, rarely seen ideas, and my own experience playing the French Defense, I present to you a line featuring an ea...
Day 25 wasn't too bad once I found the ways to breakthrough in both. The Chess.com puzzle involved in interesting threatening idea. The ACM puzzle involved an aesthetically pleasing puzzle: Day 25 Chess.com ACM Puzzle 18#
In the morning the chess day started in the solymar chess club, which I run every thursday 9:00 am to noon and on Mondays from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. The 4 players on the picture together are older than 300 years old! I hold a hybrid simul. I wa...
Day 24's puzzles were a light relief as but the chess.com puzzle and the ACM puzzles weren't too bad. My solutions are quite short as a result: Day 24 Are you brave enough? Puzzle 17 Happy solving!
Would you like to play with an International Master? I invite you to play in my simul on my LIVE channel at https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo When? 01.25.2024. Thursday 3:00 am New York time 8:00 am London time 9:00 am - Cent...
The Daily Chess Championship is a tournament hosted by Chess.com every time the New Year rolls around. Thousands flock to play, and in the 2024 Daily Chess Championship, a record-breaking 63,352 entered to try to take home the victory. Now obvious...
I was very tired yesterday after work so I did not upload anything. However, I have 3 positions to look at with you today: Chess.com Day 22 Chess.com Day 23 American Chess Magazine puzzle 16# Hope you were able to solve! Happ...
Yesterday evening as in every Monday we had our Chess Club in the Solymar Cultural House. I started to run this chess club around 11 years ago. Usually we have a lecture or friendly games from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm and from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm I or...
#smithmorra #romanticchess Delivering a beautiful checkmate is one of the intellectual pleasures of chess. However, I'm going to propose that wrangling a forced draw by perpetual check out of a dead lost position is a rarer fruit that i...
Many of us play online chess or friendly games with our sparring partners. The question is – which time control in chess should you choose? A blitz time format or 60-minute game?With increment or without? Is bullet (1+0) a good time con...
Our last glimpse of Alexander Alekhine has been on the evening of his round 12 game with Milan Vidmar at Mannheim 1914, with Alekhine leading the tournament by a point. With the outbreak of war, he quickly reached Russia and then for some time dis...
The second event in the CCC22 series is the Rapid Event, played at a time control of 10+3. The remaining event is the CCC22 bullet event, followed by a potential Classical Cup #2. Rapid is slated to begin around January 24th, 2024. Stockfish yet...
MVP_Chess is my Twitch channel where I play instructive 10-minute games on Chess.com. I explain my thought process move-by-move to have fun and help you improve your game. Here's a highlight from today's stream. If you enjoy this content, please f...
In the morning I had a lesson with Martin, who is one of my students from Scotland. I created 2 exercises from his game: After the coaching session I solved 50 hard checkmate puzzles LIVE on my stream at https://www.twitch.tv/attilatur...
#vienna #viennagambit #mainline #almostbrilliant #underbaked Currently, I'm rated almost 1300 ELO in rapid, but have previously been in the mid-1400s. I've come to terms with this, as I know that my loss of rating has been in part due t...
Checkers is for tramps. – Paul Morphy Hello, my fellow secret agents, and welcome to another edition of Blitz and Memes. If you're a fan of puzzles taken from amateur online blitz tournaments, then you have come to the right place, b...
Today I had a coaching session with Salvador, a student from Puerto Rico. We analysed several of his games and I created a few coaching exercises from them. Then I had a coaching session with Kyle, a student from the United States...
The Sunday Puzzles are reaaaaalllyyy hardddd. Scores of chess.com players often flood the chess.com comments with endless despair about how they were unable to solve or understand the Sunday Puzzle (or even how ez it was... Like whatevs.) ...
This blog details my experiences at the weekly casual chess events at Coffee Zee London off Holloway Road (266 Holloway Rd, London N7 6NE, United Kingdom) which meets every Friday from 6-9pm Coffee-House Chess is often seen as a bygone era of...
I’ve recorded thousands of chess videos if one counts all the live streams. Last month while I was at a chess tournament in Sitges, I recorded the most important one, which had been on my mind for quite a long time, and so I wanted to share ...
Bobby Fischer: Play The Najdorf Sicilian is a fun way to learn the "Rolls Royce" of chess openings. Fischer was not only world champion, but the player who turned the Najdorf Sicilian into the most formidable opening against 1. e4. In this series,...
Today I had a coaching session with Jude, one of my students from the united states. Last weekend he played in a tourney where he won 3 out of 4 games. Today he is playing in an another tourney. Please send him power! 2 critical positions from h...
