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So as you know we participate in several leagues and in one of them we’ve won a gold medal so I’m creating this forum to showcase them awards 😊 Going forward I’ll just be adding them to this post and letting you all know 😊

Dear Chess Friends, When two creative masterminds collide, magic happens. In this video, we dive deep into the stunning battle between Praggnanandhaa and Rapport – a game full of bold sacrifices and wild tactics. From unexpected opening choices to jaw-dropping middle-game fireworks, this game has everything a chess lover could dream of. Whether you're here to learn, to be entertained, or to witness one of the most explosive games of modern chess – you're in the right place. Let’s break it down, move by move. Watch the full video (33 mins) with a FREE subscription on my Patreon channel here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/game-of-century-133427313?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link I hope you'll find it useful. If you like it and you want to see my private educational videos, you can choose a membership on my Patreon channel. I upload 4-6 hours of videos / month (I've already uploaded 186 educational videos, totaling around 50 hours of content) and you can learn about openings, strategies, tactics and endgames, too. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day. Got questions? Let me know—I’d love to help! See you on the board! Best,Gabor

Increasing your chances I'd like to share with you a few thoughts and experiences. I'm not going to talk about the usual things like developing your pieces and responding to opponent's threats etc - there is plenty about that elsewhere. What I'm going to do is give five quick tips about how to increase your chances in a Daily online game. 1) Take your time.There is no need to rush. It's not a game of blitz. Unless it's a standard opening move or automatic recapture, then there is no need to play your move immediately. It's better to use the three days you have each time to your advantage. Often it can be a good idea to come back to the position later after your brain has absorbed your opponent's move and the new position you find yourself in. Oh and never move after you have just woken up. From experience I know that is a bad idea! 2) Use the Analysis tool to help you.Unlike in over the board chess where you're not allowed to touch the pieces unless you are moving, you can use the Analysis tool to look ahead in Daily chess. You can also use the Notes tool to record ideas on future plans you may have, or features of the position that may help later - for example, 'Check Bf5' and 'Watch my back rank', 3) Go on Vacation if you need to Most of us will get busy at some points in our lives with things that have nothing to do with chess. If this happens to you then consider going on vacation. That doesn't mean that you have to be on holiday for real. Vacation abuse only applies to trying to make a hopelessly lost game last longer. Also you can increase the amount of vacation time you have by becoming a member if you haven't yet. 4) Consider becoming a member if you aren't already as you can access extra resources. A Improve Your Chess with a Premium Membership - Chess.com 5) And whatever else you do, DON'T LOSE ON TIME! It's free points for our opponents. I hope these ideas will be useful. Please message me if there is anything you would like to know more about. Ben

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Hope this will help you TRAPS AND TRICKS 1. Deadly Trap in Budapest gambit ( brilliant bishop sacrifice !!) BUDAPEST GAMBIT TRAP * Use Budapest gambit trap for a quick win. This is a very sound gambit against d4. It’s the sharp gambit but if you treat this gambit carefully then you are safe. * Strong players use this gambit against beginners and club players for quick results. * Budapest gambit trap is one of the traps which d4 players should prepare, because if white gets into this trap then he needs to resign within 10 moves. * In give trap black's double bishop and a knight sacrifice forces Black's king in a mating net . Checkout here : https://youtu.be/sL9_C441lfw 2. Queen Trap in french defense Queen trap in french defence in winawer advance variation.Here black tried to win a pawn but missed the idea of white which trapped his queen. All variations leads to loss of queen for black so black resigned. Check out here : https://youtu.be/rmlgtt4_XDs 3. Alkehine's defense Trap (brilliant deflecting bishop move !!) A stunning trap in Alekhine's defense . * Brilliant g5 bishop move deflect Black's Queen. * Then stunning Rd8 follow up crushes black defenses completely. * knf7 is Final blow which forks Black's queen and wins on spot . Checkout here : https://youtu.be/pw1EIByqU2s 4. Amazing trap in Caro-Kann defense (stunning queen and rook sacrifice ) * Stunning Trap in caro - kann defense to blow your opponents mind. * Try out this trap in your own games iam quite sure 99 % of your opponent will miss the idea of brilliant rook followed by queen sacrifice. * The black ends up with a extra bishop and in winning position Checkout here : https://youtu.be/fmcdsxKCc-Q 5. Legal trap * The Legal Trap is one of the more common traps that any chess player will come across. This is because it is found in a very common opening and none of the moves made by black look terribly bad on the surface. * As we can see though, black will have to make a choice to take the bait from white and capture the queen, losing the game, or instead go down in material and fight on to see another day. * Anytime a player exposes his queen, it is really hard for the other player not to take it. That is why this trap works so well. Also if they don’t take the bait, you are still in a great position. Checkout here : https://youtu.be/pLVVIToTcFA 6. Elephant trap in Queen's gambit * The Elephant Trap derives from the Queen’s Gambit Declined lines. Black defends the Queens Gambit by simply developing his pawn to e6, keeping the tension on the d5 pawn. White continues to develop his knight and apply even more pressure. * Black then starts to set the elephant trap by developing his own knight to f6, baiting the white bishop to come to f5, pinning the knight down to the queen. Black simply brings his own knight to d7. * At first glance, this move looks like a mistake by black. If white sees this and falls for the trap, though, it will be a huge mistake. * Black can simply sacrifice his own queen with the forced moves that will win back white’s queen and put black in a dominating position. Checkout here : https://youtu.be/bwHI_2AsKRs 7. Rubenstein trap ( trapping queen ) * The Rubinstein Trap is a chess opening trap in the Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense. * Black loses a pawn after Nxd5 due to the threat of his queen being trapped on the back rank by White's Bc7. Checkout here : https://youtu.be/5qSFuO4qYBA 8. Bobby's trap in Sicilian defense ( brilliant bishop sacrifice !!) * Bobby Fischer was the first chess player to introduce this trap hence it's name " Bobby's trap ". This trap is played in Sicilian defence as white against black. * Starting with the king pawn opening for white versus the sicilian defense from black, white places his light square bishop on b3 and dares black to move his knight to a5. If black refuses, white still has a solid setup and a good game ahead. Checkout here : https://youtu.be/hAMaH4TNi_s 9. Deadliest bishop pair and rarest queen's sacrifice !! A brilliant and most rarest queen sacrifice which leads double bishop checkmate in all variations. I found this bishop pair to be deadliest one. What you think guys ?😊 Comment below. Check out here : https://youtu.be/N0l0Di_Pt9Y 10. All pieces hanging !! ( Siegfried's Brilliancy will blow your mind ) Siegfried Nadel played a 14 move brilliant game which will surely blow your mind 🔥 . All pieces are hanging but his opponent did'nt dare to capture even a single of them ( cause all variations will lead to Checkmate ) Even Queen hunged for 4 moves and on 5th move it delivered checkmate . This game feature double knight sacrifice which probably you have never seen it before I was shocked by this idea . Checkout here : https://youtu.be/ONR9_bDoysE PUZZLES 1. Can you spot 1st move ? Amazing puzzle White to move . 1st move is stunning one. Can you find it ? Solution : https://youtu.be/Dnx-lvWOfwo 2. Three Brilliant move needed to solve this puzzle !!🔥🔥 * Find the combination of next few moves for white to win in this position * Also find Black's best defense against white's move. * This puzzle requires 3 brilliant move for white to solve against Black's best defense . Checkout solution here : https://youtu.be/k1hGb6h8Ifg Keep smiling 😊. Stay tuned for more crazy traps and tricks .

Hello everyone,Recently I read Winter's books and Euwe&Prins book about Capablanca. What is your favourite book? Winter's Book about Capablanca Euwe & Prins book about Capablanca

1. Go to the game. https://www.chess.com/votechess/game/169000 2. Click on the download icon: 3. It will show you this: 4. Click on the FEN and copy it to your clip board. 5. Next you click on the little chess board icon in the game: 6. Once you click that you will see this page: 7. Paste the FEN into that box where it says "Paste FEN" then click "Load" 8. If we are playing black in that particular game you will need to click on "Theme" at the bottom and flip the chess board. 9. Then you can add the moves that you are trying to show. 10. Once you have made all the moves you are trying to show then you click on "Insert" and then post

1200 TOPS Season 1 Quarter Finals Division 2 Volga Team vs The Great British Empire Stroke Survivors Doctors and Carers vs Chess House Cafe AFC Bournemouth vs Battle Ground Warriors The Commonwealth vs DACII 1WL 960 candidates 960 CANDIDATES pts pts+ TB 1 . #20 The Chess Vikings 8 +1 >=45 2 . #12 Crimea team I 8 <=44.5 3 . #11 Squadron Commandos 7 4 . #13 Royal Wallachian Chess Club 5.5 44.5 5 . #7 Lynx Club I 5.5 42 6 . #26 Team Pasargadae 5 41 7 . #4 The Netherlands 5 34.5 8 . #18 ANTI NAZI LEAGUE 4.5 #6 1WL PLAYERS' LOUNGE I 4.5 #14 Little Big Pawn 4 +0.5 11 . #1 El Rey Negro I 4 +0 #5 Creative Mind 4 13 . #25 Zen Warriors 3 +0.5 #19 AFC Bournemouth 3.5 15 . #27 Lucky Gruppe 3 #23 Joyful chess 3 17 . #24 YUMMY GIRLS CHESS 2 –– #8 WHR Tourney Supporters Reg. I 3 #2 Limitless Chess I 3 #21 LEGION 3 #29 Blonde Girls 1 #17 Independència 2.5 #16 Warriors of the Rainbow 2 #10 BULGARIA 2 #3 United Nations For Chess 1 #28 Beauty of Asia 1 #9 Chess960 Society 0 #22 Chess4All 1 #15 Daily Chess Lovers 0 1WL Open 25 OPEN25 The Great Minds. I Team Republika Srpska Team United Kingdom. I Lynx Club I Vojvodina Tim I Romeo and Juliet Crimea team I Kasparov Chess Club I Big Game Hunters I Deutsche Schachfreunde PURPLE HAZE I Number 12 Grimmauld Place Team Italia DOC I The Empire Of Assassins I Kyiv Chess Club I Art Of Chess I EQUIPO ANDALUCIA The Tactical Brothers AFC Bournemouth I Veselin Topalov Chess Club Team México I Alexandra Kosteniuk Fan Club KNIGHTS of the REALM I 1WL U1800 U18-12 The Great Minds. II Team Romania II Team Match Chess II Chess Ajedrezz II Art Of Chess II PURPLE HAZE II Team Pasargadae II Official Embassy of Mars II Crimea team II 1WL PLAYERS' LOUNGE II InterAjedrez II Catherine and Friends II AFC Bournemouth II Cevennes Chess Club II Team Argentina B II Kingdom of Red Flowers CC II World Peace Chess Club I Lynx Club II KNIGHTS of the REALM II The Commonwealth LEGIO I ITALICA II 1WL U1600 U16-25 NO PASARAN III Squadron Commandos III Battle For Victory Lynx Club III The Arizonians II Team Pakistan I AFC Bournemouth III Team United Kingdom. III Team Sofia 1WL U1400 U14-12 KNIGHTS of the REALM IV The Arizonians III Crimea team IV Team Romania IV InterAjedrez IV The Netherlands IV Team Pakistan II Team Argentina B III Kingdom of Red Flowers CC IV ESPANA 1500 CLUB II PURPLE HAZE IV Lynx Club IV 1WL PLAYERS' LOUNGE IV Catherine and Friends IV Team Juanita III AFC Bournemouth IV Team Italia DOC IV 1WL U1200 U12-5+ Evergreen Alliance OCW Foo Fighters LEGIO I ITALICA V 1WL PLAYERS' LOUNGE V AFC Bournemouth V Earthlings United V Xadrez entre Amigos II The Commonwealth Little Big Pawn II InterAjedrez V Catherine and Friends V Kingdom of Red Flowers CC V Team Italia DOC V TMI - Team Match International QF - currently in open match phase DIVISION 1 Tough Custard Squadron Commandos Team Match Chess Team of Muslims Stroke Survivors Carers and Doctors AFC Bournemouth Transport Logistics Warriors Zen Warriors

As of February 2019, AFC Bournemouth are involved in four different leagues. These are :- 1) Global Football League (GFL) We play in the top division of this (Division 1). To find out how we're doing in the table, and to see our current and past results, click here https://chessteams.info/?myteam=AFC+Bournemouth . There's no need to log in. If it comes up saying 'Team Galicia' on the top right ,then change it to say 'Bournemouth'. The table is a 'live table' and shows what would happen if all the matches finished as they are. 2) One World League (1WL) We're just about to play our first set of matches in this quite large league. Matches are played in rating bands and according to minimum size of team. We have entered three teams in this our first season, and they will play in different divisions. There's Open-12a (minimum 12 boards any rating), U18-12 (minimum 12 boards under 1800), and U16-12a (minimum 12 boards under 1600). To see how we're doing click this link as above with the GFL - https://chessteams.info/?myteam=AFC+Bournemouth 3) World Football League (WFL) 28 teams play here. Apparently it's all play all (eventually!). Here's the group link. https://www.chess.com/club/liga-mundial-de-clubes-de-futbol-world-league-football-club. I think you'll have to join the group to see inside. Say you're a member of AFC Bournemouth if you need to give a reason, and if that doesn't get you in then let me know. Here's the link to the latest round at time of writing - https://www.chess.com/es/news/view/wfl-2019-round-5-march-3 . Note that the table there only includes completed matches. 4) New Wave League (NWL) This is a brand new league which is just about to get under way. The league is split into five divisions (called Waves) according to criteria such as number of members, and average rating for the competing groups. We've ended up in Wave 3 (W3). Here's the link to the organising group - https://www.chess.com/club/new-wave-league, And here's the section to do with Wave 3- https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/nwl-2019-wave-3-pairings-per-rounds . Same points about accessing this as with WFL above.