Improve Your Middle Game (Part 1 - Patterns) Pattern recognition is one of the skills that makes a master. It's not inherent; it's learned. Why is one chess player a struggling club player and another a master? The...
Michael Adams Number of games in database: 2,764 Years covered: 1984 to 2017 Last FIDE rating: 2747 (2741 rapid, 2768 blitz) Highest rating achieved in database: 2761 Overall record: +898 -352 =1180 (61.2%)* * Overall winni...
Becoming a Better Chess Player 1Learn how to play. You can't get better if you don't know the rules or how to move a piece correctly. 2Join a local chess club. Be social and free with chess. Don't make yourself feel good by playing people that c...
Chess960 Chess960 (also known as Fischer Random Chess or Fischerandom) is a variant of chess invented and advocated by former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer, publicly announced on June 19, 1996, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1][2] It e...
Chess middlegame The middlegame in chess refers to the portion of the game in between the opening and the endgame. There is no clear line between the opening and middlegame, and between the middlegame and endgame. In modern chess, the moves that ...
Chess strategy Chess strategy is the aspect of chess playing concerned with evaluation of chess positions and setting of goals and long-term plans for future play. While evaluating a position strategically, a player must take into account such fa...
