I am a 40-year-old man, and I remember the pre-computer era. Back then, attention spans were measured in hours, not seconds. Today, we live in an age where everyone is obsessed with their "screen-tapping" ratings and is deathly afraid of actually ...
Hello, guys and girls! Today, I want to share with you a brilliant positional concept I’ve recently learned. As an example, we'll use a position from a game I played online. Let's take a look. &n...
Hello, guys and girls! Today I wanted to talk about a very exciting endgame idea which called breakthrough. The logic behind the breakthrough in the endgame stage usually is to create a passed pawn and eventually promote it. To get...
Hello, guys! Today I'll show you a very popular mistake which people do and how to punish it. As an example we'll take one of my recent 10 minute games. From this game we can learn that you should very carefully move your pawns f...
Hello, guys! Today I'll show you another nice idea based on the sacrifice of the b pawn which you can use in some positions to undermine your opponent's strong center. As an example we'll use one of my rapid games where my FM opponent fell...
Hello, guys! Today I'll show you a nice tactical "trick" which you can use in some positions to break your opponent's strong center. As an example we'll use one of my recent blitz games where my opponent (roughly 2200 level) fell into my p...
Hello, guys! Today I'll show you a nice example of weak color complex and weak king. This game was played by fourth world chess champion Max Euwe against Salomon Flohr in Amsterdam in 1939. Some people think that Euwe was a "weak" worl...
Hi, guys! Today I want to share with you one very interesting feature of the knight and show you one instructive endgame position. In the position above it's black to move and if black wants to make a draw they have to blockade white king ...
Hi, guys! Today I want to share with you one of the best games I've ever played in Caro Kann defense which came out of the opening preparation. I hope you enjoyed this opening idea! If you'd like to see more examples like that, l...
Hi, guys! Today I want to share with you the line in Caro Kann defense for black in which I scored a lot of very easy wins at blitz against players around my level (2000-2200). This is another example of how natural-looking moves you can lose...
Hi, guys! Today I want to share with you how I catched my opponent into my preparation in Sicilian Kan. It'll be my game against an around 2000-rated player in blitz. This is how making natural-looking moves you can lose the game. I hope you en...
Hello, guys! And today i want do demonstrate for you technic called "indirect defence". Let's see what kind of "beast" it is with an example of my game played against an opponent rated about 1600 here on chess.com. So, what can we learn from thi...
Hello, guys! Welcome to my blog and today i want to give you some tips in finding unexpected (for your opponent ) moves during your games. This was a game of one of my students with some of my comments and tips during the game Thu...
Hi guys! Here i want to share with you an interesting way of breaking through only one open file. Lets go to the position which occured in one of my games. This was a blitz 3+2 game against nearly 1900 opponent. Write you questions or ideas a...
