Collected & Organized by Kelly Atkins "Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine." Rudolf Spielmann In General: When you see a good move, sit on your hands and see if you can find a be...
Chess for Two: Icelandic GM Johann Hjartarson cut short his honeymoon to play in the 1988 Tilburg GM tournament. Chess Second: US master Reuben Fine was Max Euwe's "second" during Euwe's 1937 World Championship match against Alexander Alekhin...
Concentration Trophy: The trophy for the 3rd Howard Staunton Memorial tournament held in London in 2005 was a chess set which had been used by a Polish player named Sabkowski who was interned in five different concentration camps ...
Chess has its strange but true stories, just like any other subject. It just seems stranger with the characters we run into with chess. In the 1930s, the California School of th...
Bill Wall's Wonderful World of Chessby Bill Wall Here are some of the signs that you are addicted to chess: You are walking down the hall and bump into someone. Instead of saying, "excuse me," you say, without thought, "J'ad...
I really love this story..and I'd like to share it with you guys. After Alekhin had taken the championship title from Capablanca, Capa apparently spent quite a bit of his spare time hanging out in a specific cafe in Paris. Friends, acquaintances,...
Chess is variously described as a science, an art and a sport. It has the virtue of being completely free of the element of luck: the result of each game depends entirely upon the skill of the players. A youngster who plays chess soon learns t...
BY DR. GERARD J. DULLER Chess lovers have long contended that chess should be a valuable classroom tool. It can provide an intellectually stimulating, rewarding activity, but it can also teach discipline, concentration, planning and all the ...
The inside story of an ingenious chess-playing machine that thrilled crowds, terrified opponents, and won like clockwork. By Tom Standage One autumn day in 1769, a 35-year-old civil servant was summoned to the imperial court in Vienna to witnes...
Zhu Chen born March 16, 1976 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang) is a chess Grandmaster. In 2001, she became China's second women's world chess champion after Xie Jun, and China's 13th Grandmaster. In 1988 Zhu became the first Chinese player to win an internat...
Just want to share this.. For as long as chessboards have existed, there have been puzzles involving chessboards and chess pieces. Some of the most enduring conundrums involve knights. According to the rules of chess, a knight makes an L-s...
Alexandra Kosteniuk is a Russian chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2523, presently ranked eighth in the women chess world (according to April 2008 FIDE rating list). Her most notable chess achievements include: winning the Women's European...
If you're getting a little long in the tooth, and grey on top, then you might be stuck back in the days of yon when chess software wasn't worth the price of the floppy disk that it came on. Well my friend, times have changed, and this is defini...
Avoiding Premature Attacks when Playing Chess A common mistake made by chess beginners is they will often see an opportunity to attack, and act hastily. The premature attack leads to disaster for the beginner because it can create opportunities f...
Saw this article on my email my friend sent me last year..hope you like it. Chess: Teaching the Five R’s to Children One of America’s premier Grand Masters, Yasser Seirawan, believes that chess teaches kids the 5 R’s; reading, writing, arithmet...
