In August 2024, we started the Red Knight Chess Cafe, as an extension of our existing chess club in Bangkok, Thailand. It was our dream to open a modern Chess Cafe, a place in which chess players and enthusiast can come for a friendly game of ches...
Hello everyone, With the ongoing situation, online tournaments and matches are booming. We are all trying to get the best of the bad situation and chess really helps. I don't know what I would do if it wasn't for chess. I am at home for more than ...
It turned out to my big surprise that a 10-moves stalemate is possible! Absurd, but possible. This was discovered by Sam Loyd, an American chess player and chess composer. I have no precise information on this, but at least some of the games below...
A short 3 minutes video of Anand's win against Aronian today. Only some graphical comments and fast replay of the game (please don't hate me for it!) Enjoy!
Back in the days when the music was still good and we used Analog chess clocks in tournaments, games that were ending with both players in time-trouble were exciting and often crazy. This particularly applied for rapid tournaments, especially if t...
Hi everybody,This is my first post on chess.com. I didn’t know what to write about, because I’m still reading all the articles these wonderful people published here, searching for topics that haven’t been covered. But today I was looking trough so...
