Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Steinem, Gloria. Chess is a constant battle between two brains, which symbolizes a confrontation bet...
With a score of 8 ½ points in 14 possible (5W, 7D, 2L), GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was the clear first in the World Championship Candidate 2020/2021 tournament, qualifying himself to face the World Champion face to face, GM Magnus Carlsen, in Du...
GM Mikhail Gurevich (@GurevichMikhail) is a chess legend. Born on February 22, 1959 (62 years old) in Kharkiv, USSR (now Ukraine territory), and later naturalized Belgian, this GM have great achievements in his curriculum. For example, he pl...
Playing chess makes me happier than doing anything else. - Ju Wenjun In 2017, no one doubted that China dominated the world´s women´s chess scene. The Chinese female team had won the Chess Olympics for the 5th time in 2016, ...
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn´t brood. I´d type a little faster." - Isaac Asimov Welcome to my office. Please, make yourself comfortable, open the video below and put it as a background sound while reading. Take ...
Hi everyone. Hope you are all fine and, if not, that things improve soon. If you are used to watching chess videos, or reading books/articles, you probably have heard that someone has a more aggressive style of chess, or another person plays in a...
"Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity." - Chinese Proverb Hi everyone, it´s almost Chinese New Year here in Brazil, which occurs on February 12. Members of the Scotland Chinese community celebrating. Photo: ©Jeffy J. Michel/Gett...
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - Ward, William Arthur. Are you stuck in your chess progress? I mean, that is a lot of material available, but you don´t kn...
"I sincerely want to fill chess with unexpected ideas." - Dubov, Daniil Article Structure: The current article is composed of (i) a short biography of GM Daniil Dubov, and (ii) a game analysis by BKB99 with interactive exercises for practicing...
“At least at blitz chess, I’m probably the best or second-best player ever, in the entire history, at least online.” – Nakamura, Hikaru. Article Structure: The current article is composed of (i) a short biography of GM Hikaru Nakamura and (ii)...
“At 17 years old, when I won a rapid tournament in New York, certain people actively worked on me: “Look at the events taking place in Russia – stay here, and with us, you’ll be a millionaire, we’ll organize everything for you”. I said that I want...
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” - Frank Lloyd Wright *This is the second part of a series of three articles. First part – Talent vs Hard Work: https://www....
O título de Mestre Nacional (MN) é o primeiro de uma cadeia de títulos de xadrez. Bem, alguns podem até argumentar que os títulos de Candidato a Mestre (CM) e Mestre FIDE Feminino (WFM) são equivalentes, ou quase equivalentes ao de MN. Eu não vou...
The National Master (NM) is the first title in the chain of chess titles. Some can argue that the Candidate Master (CM) and Woman FIDE Master (WFM) are almost equivalent to an NM. I will not enter this merit, as it is not the object of this artic...
“O trabalho duro vence o talento quando o talento não trabalha duro” - Tim Notke. Oi pessoal, tudo bem com vocês? Se a resposta for negativa, fique calmo e sempre dê seu melhor que a situação vai se ajeitando aos poucos. Antes de começarmos, ...
*This is the first part of a series of three articles. Second part – When The Unbeatable Gets Beaten: https://www.chess.com/blog/BlitzKriegBoy99/when-the-unbeatable-gets-beaten Third part – Under construction “Hard work beats talent when tale...
“Lembre-se que estas são espadas duplas. Duas metades de uma mesma arma. Não pense nelas como separadas, porque elas não são. São apenas duas partes diferentes de um mesmo inteiro. - Príncipe Zuko; Avatar: O Último Mestre do Ar, episódio 27: "Zuk...
“Keep in mind, these are dual swords. Two halves of a single weapon. Don't think of them as separate, 'cause they're not. They're just two different parts of the same whole..” - Prince Zuko; Avatar: The Last Airbender, episode 27: "Zuko Alone" ...
Hey all! How are you doing? If well, that´s great. If not, I hope things improve soon. Today, December 11. GM Maxime Vachier Lagrave (@LyonBeast) (which I will refer to as "MVL"), World´s number 5 in the rating list, and a WC Contender himself, ...
"Never let anyone say you can´t do something. You get a dream, you got to protect it. People can´t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can´t do it. If you want something, go get it." - Chis Gardner, played by Will Smith in the mov...
"Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His tricky was to keep his opening simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his opponent didn´t always...
"It is important to draw wisdom from many different places, if you take from only one place, it rigid and stale." - Iroh Similarities Between Contracts and Chess It´s not uncommon when we come across ourselves with contracts in our day by day, t...
To be empathetic is to see the world through the eyes of others and not to see our world reflected in their eyes. - Rogers, Carl Hey everyone, hope you are doing fine. If you aren´t, hope things improve soon. How do you feel when you w...
Chess as an art has a divine origin, while chess as a sport (when victory counts at all costs, sacrificing the beauty of the game) springs from the Devil. - Smyslov, Vassily Hi everyone, hope you are all doing fine. What defines a player's char...
Why is the opening phase important? From time to time, someone asks me my opinion on what openings I think is better for them, or how they can build their own opening repertoire. It´s true that the opening phase isn´t the most important thing ...
