Welcome Back To The Chess Brewer, Let's Crack Open Another One! We continue our series on the first chess world championship match in 1886 between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort. I hope you all enjoyed game one, before we get into it...
Welcome back to The Chess Brewer—let’s crack open the first championship game ever! Happy New Year first of all! I've decided to try and start blogging again as I've recently started diving deep back into world championship history. ...
I'm very excited to announce the launch of version 2 for http://chessworldchampionshipdata.com/ I know it was down there for a bit but this is after all a passion project for me and I just didn't have the time for a while. We're back up and runn...
Can you feel it? It's almost here. Chess lovers from around the world are collectively proliferating the energy on this tiny rock we call home in anticipation. In just over two weeks Magnus Carlsen will attempt to defend his claim that he is this ...
Chess World Championship Data The FIDE World Chess Championship is just under a month away! In anticipation of the event I wanted to take a closer look at the data from the games of World Champion Magnus Carlsen. In particular the games fro...
This Friday will be my travel day to The Central NY Open in Syracuse NY, held in the Hall of Languages. Last year, this was my first tournament in over 25 years and I scored 2/5 which was a disappointment but I learned a ton that day. This yea...
New Series: Play The Classics! This series will focus on famous games known by many without the need of a move list. At the end of each post will be an interactive board for you to "Play The Classic!" Learning games by heart is another tool we c...
As we wrap up The Najdorf we'll take a look at two different variations, but before we do let's look at our key concepts once again and we'll easily notice the similarities throughout all the variations. Key Concepts for 6. Be2 The Opocensky V...
Today in our penultimate episode of "Know The Opening: The Najdorf" we'll check out 6. g3. As usual let's begin with a game that illustrates what we want to avoid. Key Concepts Some of these are ringing true through all variations wouldn't you...
Another popular move for White instead of 6.Be3 is 6.Bc4 also known as the "Fischer-Sozin attack". Let's have a look at a Fischer game utilizing this strategy against the Najdorf, once again as a tool to show us what we're trying to avoid. Namesa...
Ok, let's get on with it! First thing we'll look at in depth is 6.Be3 which can lead to the English Attack for White. First let's lay the foundation with some key concepts to keep in mind when playing this position. Key Concepts We'll see thes...
Welcome to the beginning of my new series on The Najdorf. Over the course of several upcoming installments I'll be walking through the "meat and potatoes" of my most recent study on the position providing simple and easy to understand key concepts...
Welcome! This is a quick post to give you an overview of what you'll find here and who this eberwine person is. Hopefully you'll give these posts a look and participate in discussion or offer any other feedback you may have (provided it's constru...
