SCC – Fast and basic tactics! The 2021 has started! Having won the tournament for the last 3 years – I am well aware things are not becoming easier! My round one opponent was the always interesting and creative eight times Russian ch...
“I’d rather have lucky generals than good ones.” More than a hundred years later, Eisenhower reaffirmed this point by saying: “I’d rather have a lucky general than a smart general. They win battles.” ...
I won one Titled Tuesday this Oct with some very decent black opening play against Peter Svidler and Andrew Tang. Both were critical games for winning this Titled Tuesday. Here's some “blitz” commentary for these 3|1 games.If you...
Who knew choosing which tournament to play is way more difficult than actually playing!October is looking like another normal month for me – online activities and streaming but it was supposed to be completely different as I was planning to ...
On Tuesday, September 28th, I played...
Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix Arenas are fun, and even though I’m personally invited to the finals, playing the qualification matches is no less fun in any way. Strong players and excellent prizes in such an open blitz tournament alway...
On August 17, 2021, I played a perfect Titled Tuesday. Well, the results were perfect, the games were far from it. For your enjoyment, I've analyzed two of them. Enjoy! Here's part one of the actual video of Titled Tuesday: And ...
It felt good to be back playing over the board and it felt even better winning the tournament. Doing it without a loss in 27 games was just icing on the proverbial cake! After almost two years of no OTB chess I played the St Louis Rapid an...
My game against Anand Bot was one for the records. Having a won position for 80 moves, winning in so many different ways at any moment only to, well, you'll see what happened below. Let's have a look: To watch Hikaru play this game ...
Last week was quite successful – top prizes on Monday's Chess Played Quick Bot Battles – Titled Tuesday and Arena Kings on Wednesday. Yet, as Napoleon said "Give me the lucky generals not the smartest, not the bravest, but the luckiest...
Would you like to play me in one of the largest online chess simuls ever and help support Doctors Without Borders? On October 31 at 8 a.m. Pacific time, I will be playing 77 opponents in a simul on Chess.com. IM Levy Rozman (twitch.tv/gotha...
I recently competed in the fourth and final event of the 2014-2015 FIDE Grand Prix cycle in Khanty-Mansiysk. Not including the people who had finished their three events, here were the standings before Khanty-Mansiysk: Tomashevsky: 2...
This is my first blog on Chess.com, so I'd like to write something really eloquent and profound so I can look back on this moment. However, I am a chess player and not a poet or philosopher! Coming off of my recent win in the U.S. Championshi...
