#sicilian #smithmorra #quickwins Today’s chess noob Quick Win is a very lovely game sent in by long time subscriber @AndyDeco. It’s a fantastic demonstration of how things can go very wrong for the Sicilian Defense player...
This past weekend, the Charlotte Chess Center hosted our fall 2024 ALTO tournament at the SouthPark Hilton Garden Inn. ALTO stands for At Least Twenty-One, meaning that all participants in the tournament needed to be at least twenty-one years old!...
#Chess #Improvement #Learn from a #ChessMaster #Calculation > #Feelings Proud Teacher Moment: When Students Take Initiative in Studying Instructive Games One of the things I find most rewarding as a chess teacher is seeing my students go...
INTRODUCTION What’s the secret to launching a powerful middlegame attack? Bring more pieces into the fight! In my own game against a grandmaster, this strategy made all the difference - and today, we’ll break down how players at the ...
#viennagambit #romantic #beautiful #checkmate #legaltrap One of the great things about the Vienna Gambit is that when it goes well, you not only win, but there is the opportunity to get a beautiful checkmate. To quote myself from my new bo...
Morphy, I think everyone agrees, was probably the greatest genius of them all. -Bobby Fischer, 1992. Welcome Everyone, to a biographical edition of the Osaka Papers. Paul Charles Morphy of New Orleans was an American chess master of the ...
Every chess player is inspired by the beautiful checkmating combinations of past masters. One of the things that got me hooked on chess was Fred Reinfeld's 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate (a great book if you are 1200 and don't check the solution...
#unplugged #jazz #vienna #birdsopening CHESS UNPLUGGED | Sometimes, I just like unwind by not thinking too hard, play a couple of quick casual unrated games, while listen to some slow jazz! 😌♟️🎵 Today, I played a couple of qu...
Gender inequity in chess has increasingly gained international attention, and several federations, clubs, and players are working to resolve this problem. Tackling gender bias in chess is an important goal for many but particularly for the author ...
CCC23 Bullet will mark the final event in the CCC23 series. ..... !! Watch the Computer Chess Championship Here !! This event will feature the following matches. As the matches are played, this blog will be updated to link to the match, as w...
#greekgift #triplebrilliant #chessromance The Greek Gift Sacrifice is a beautiful, devious, and Romantic tactic that I just love playing! 🤩👍 It’s a tactical motif that typically occurs in the early middlegame and can come from many d...
Starting around 1929, Capablanca’s life starts to assume the aspect of a tragedy. More than for just about anybody else, there’s a sense with Capablanca of being born with a very particular fate — to be the world champion —...
The Capechecs tournament provided chess fans with an unforgettable spectacle, pitting two iconic figures of the game against each other: Vasyl Ivanchuk, a living chess legend, and Marc'Andria Maurizzi, a young French prodigy and rising star. This ...
In my last blog post (see here), we took a look at the first major tournament that followed the World Championship match between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort. While such a match is obviously of immense importance, it doesn't fall w...
Hey Impressive Chessers! Happy Halloween! 🎃 Today, we're revisiting a classic Halloween topic: the infamous Halloween Gambit! This gambit is a spooky trick that arises in the Four Knights Opening, where White sacrifices a knight with 4. Nxe5, ai...
Hi there! Today, let’s dive into something a little different: delaying the castle. Most beginners are taught to castle early to keep the king safe, and it’s solid advice! But as you get deeper into the game, you start learning trick...
INTRODUCTIONIn this episode, you’ll learn three powerful rules for building winning attacks in chess. We’ll explore how to bring more pieces into your attack, the difference between attacking same-side and opposite-side castling, and w...
This is a blog post about a tournament run by the Hertfordshire Chess Association in England. If you live in Hertfordshire (or the surrounding areas) and you would like to find out more about chess in Hertfordshire, please visit this page which co...
Hello everyone! Today is the 30th, and that means it is the day to read another one of my nonsense analogy blogs. If you are an avid reader, you already know many important things about the chess world. The list includes who the players would ...
Hey Impressive Chessers! Today, we’re going to revisit a topic that you’re probably getting pretty tired of hearing about: dealing with your opponent’s threats. If you’re tired of hearing about it—good! It means it's...
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It's time we celebrate the people who helped get the Chessable craze going! When Chessable launched in 2016, it was as quiet and spooky as a cemetery. It had nothing, save for a couple of free tutorial courses. And its UI might just scare...
This week, I am launching the Thematic Week series, an event that will span four days, from Monday to Thursday, during the last calendar week of each month. These tournament series will provide the Chess Architect community with the opportunity ...
Chess is ruthless: you have got to be prepared to kill people. -Nigel Short. Welcome, everyone to another uncanny edition of Blitz 'n' Memes. If you're a fan of puzzles taken from amateur online blitz tournaments, then you have come to t...
GM Vladimir Kramnik! I have none intention to go slow on you, being overly polite. Etiquette has no place here. It is interesting how you choose to go for a swim, into a wild ravishing ocean to investigate cheaters. I may understand your intenti...
