Dear friends, New students can apply for a free first-time participation as instructed below. This is a weekly update of open places in our group lessons for the week of 6/4-6/10: Group 1- advanced level: Saturdays at 11 am ET...
Dear friends, You are invited to participate in an unrated tournament for the members of our group, featuring an interesting line in the Vienna/King's gambit declined. https://www.chess.com/tournament/the-ochman-study-groups-unrate...
Dear friends, This is a weekly update of open places in our group lessons for the week of 5/28-6/3. Group 1, advanced level: Saturdays at 11 am ET/ 4 pm UK/ 8:30 pm India. 1 open place. Group 2, intermediate level: Sunda...
Dear members, You are invited to participate in our group's unrated Pirc defense tournament below. Good luck! https://www.chess.com/tournament/study-groups-unrated-pirc-defense-tournament
Dear friends, You are invited to submit your applications to participate in a free introduction group lesson. Our study group launches a new lesson format, online lessons for groups of up to 3 and another format for groups of up to 5.&nb...
Dear members, You are invited to participate in our group's unrated tournament themed by the Sicilian Dragon defense: https://www.chess.com/tournament/study-groups-unrated-sicilian-dragon-opening-tournament
Dear members, Our group's championship for players rated under 1400 is open for you to join here: https://www.chess.com/tournament/ochmans-study-group-championship-may-2018-patzer-class
Dear friends, You are welcome to participate in our group's championship for May/2018! This is an open category. Join here: https://www.chess.com/tournament/study-group-championship-may-2018
You are invited to join our study group's tournament, in the theme of the French defense, exchange variation: https://www.chess.com/tournament/study-groups-unrated-exchange-french-opening-tournament
Dear members, You are invited to participate in our group's unrated tournament themed by the queens gambit accepted: https://www.chess.com/tournament/study-groups-unrated-queens-gambit-accepted-opening-tournament
You are invited to participate in our study group's Sicilian Scheveningen unrated tournament, you can join here: https://www.chess.com/tournament/study-groups-unrated-scheveningen-sicilian-opening-tournament
Dear members, Based on our members' request, a new thematic unrated tournament is available to join here: https://www.chess.com/tournament/ochmans-study-group-scotch-opening-tournament
Division B of the group championship is available for registration! Limited to players rated up to 1350 on daily chess. https://www.chess.com/tournament/ochmans-study-group-patzer-class-championship-apr-2018
Dear friends, Our group's championship for April/2018 is now open for registration: https://www.chess.com/tournament/study-group-championship-apr-2018 Good luck!
Our study group's championship fro Mar/2018 is now open for registration! https://www.chess.com/tournament/study-group-championship-mar-2018
Dear friends, Our championship of Feb/2018 is now available to join. https://www.chess.com/tournament/study-group-championship-feb-2018
Dear members, Our group's chess 960 championship will be held monthly. The current chess 960 championship is available for registration here: https://www.chess.com/tournament/study-group-960-chess-championship-feb-2018
Hello friends and students, Our club championships will be held on monthly basis, you are welcome to participate. Applause and respect guaranteed! https://www.chess.com/tournament/study-group-championship-jan-2018
Hello friends and students, In this thread you can post your questions about any chess subject. Every 10 questions or so I will create a video lecture for you, that would answer all your questions. and post it here.
Solve for black: Diagram 8.3- this position which arises from the Maroczy bind in the Sicilian opening, is open only on the dark squares. The main light square diagonals are closed or useless.Therefore from this observation we can continue ...
Hi, This is the first article I published, guess you have already read it http://blog.chess.com/Spochman/no-more-opening-memorizing?page=2 Currently working on the next one, which I will publish here for you guys :-) -Philip
