Peter K Wells
Peter K Wells Photo courtesy of Eric Schiller. Number of games in database: 676Years covered: 1979 to 2017Last FIDE rating: 2427 (2466 rapid, 2457 blitz)Highest rating achieved in database: 2545 Overall reco...
Blackburne's mate
Blackburne's mate[edit] Blackburne's mate is named for Joseph Henry Blackburne and is a rare method of checkmating. The checkmate utilizes the black rook (it could be a bishop or queen instead) to confine the black king's escape to the f8 s...
Veselin Topalov
Veselin Topalov Photograph copyright © 2005 World Chess Championship Press. Number of games in database: 2,137 Years covered: 1986 to 2017 Last FIDE rating: 2749 (2715 rapid, 2710 blitz) Highest rati...
Middle game - Double attacks
Middle game - Double attacks Tactics appear when one move does two things. After you've read the About Chess introduction to Tactical Play (see link at the end), you know something about forks, pins, discovered attacks...
Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Alekhine George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) Number of games in database: 2,034 Years covered: 1903 to 1946 Overall record: +886 -166 =435 (74.2%)* * Overall...
Bishop and Knight
Bishop and knight mate An archetypal Bishop and knight mate The Bishop and knight checkmate occurs when the king te...
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov Photograph courtesy of kasparovagent.com. Number of games in database: 2,360 Years covered: 1973 to 2016 Last FIDE rating: 2812 Highest rating achieved in database: 2851 Overall record: +7...
Back-rank checkmate
Back-rank checkmate In chess, a back-rank checkmate (also known as the corridor mate) is a checkmate delivered by a rook or queen along a back rank (that is, the row on which the pieces [not pawns] stand at the start of the game) in which the mat...
Sergey Karjakin
Sergey Karjakin Baku, 2016. Photo Fide World Chess Cup. Number of games in database: 1,918 Years covered: 2000 to 2017 Last FIDE rating: 2781 (2773 rapid, 2791 blitz) Highest rating achieved in database: 278...
Improve Your Middle Game (Part 3 - Plans)
Improve Your Middle Game (Part 3 - Plans) Plan = strategy = positional play. No plan = defeat. 'Play with a plan.' How many times have you heard that phrase? There are many ways to lose a chess game, but playing withou...
Fabiano Caruana
Fabiano Caruana European Chess Team Championship, Warsaw. Photo by Przemyslaw Jahr, Nov 15, 2013. Number of games in database: 1,335 Years covered: 1999 to 2017 Last FIDE rating: 2805 (2752 rapid, 2800 blitz...
Arabian mate
Arabian mate a b c d e f g h 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 a b c d e f g h An archetypal Arabian mate In the Arabian mate, the knight and t...
Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen Photo courtesy of Magnus Carlsen's Official Facebook Page. Number of games in database: 2,510 Years covered: 1999 to 2017 Last FIDE rating: 2832 (2896 rapid, 2914 blitz) Highest rating achieve...
Anastasia's mate
Anastasia's mate In Anastasia's mate, a knight and rook team up to trap the opposing king between the side of the board on one side and a friendly piece on the other. This checkmate got its name from the novel Anasta...
Wesley So
Wesley So Photograph copyright © 2017, used by permission. Number of games in database: 908Years covered: 2003 to 2017Last FIDE rating: 2812 (2759 rapid, 2791 blitz)Highest rating...
Improve Your Middle Game (Part 2 - Combinations)
Ask a few chessplayers why they play, and you're bound to get a variety of answers. One says 'for the competition'; another says, 'to keep my thinking processes in shape'; and yet another says, 'for the beauty'. That last answer may raise some eye...
Six-Pawns-Attack versus King's Indian
Play something different for a change to upset your opponents thinking process... The Six-Pawns-Attack is an unusual chess setup for White against the King's Indian defense or the Benoni defense. I believe the Six-Pawns-Attack is not played at a...
Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand Number of games in database: 3,129 Years covered: 1984 to 2017 Last FIDE rating: 2786 (2789 rapid, 2766 blitz) Highest rating achieved in database: 2817 Overall record: +627 -220 =998 (61.0%)* * Overall wi...
Improve Your Middle Game (Part 1 - Patterns)
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? There a...
Michael Adams
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
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...
How To Begin Mastering Chess
Chess is a highly competitive game played by millions of people around the world. The basics can be mastered in a matter of minutes. Advanced strategic concepts can take years to come to terms with and a lifetime to master. 1 Learn the rule...
Chess board details (positions,coordinates)
A Chess Board contains 64 squares and arranged in 8 X 8 (eight-by-eight) grid. It is shown in the image. it starts from a to h in bottom & 1 to 8 from left side. This is called "algebraic chess notation". By using these 2 dig...
