Here's a great game De la Bourdonnais vs McDonnell, Alexander. Black gives his Queen away early in the opening for a couple of pieces and launches a violent attack with his remaining pieces to prevail. A very exciting game that happened i... Read more »
This game has a great ending of Knight and four pawns against Rook and three pawns. The Knight prevails. See how!!!!! Here's a great annotated game of GM Van Wely playing against Rebel Century 4. (Annotated by Jan Van Reek)There was a time whe... Read more »
The history here is great but the ending combination is simply artwork at its height! The development of coffeehouses was a great stimulus for chess. The European cafe appeared during the seventeenth century. At first it consisted of a simple room... Read more »
Why you might hate chess. Despite what some would say, there are very few board games that are deep rooted into our social fabric. Monopoly is one. Cluedo (or Clue in the US) is another. Various card games such as Bridge and Poker. Be honest, can ... Read more »
Paul Morphy competed in only one tournament in his short career, the 1st American Chess Congress in 1857. In the final round of this knock-out event, he defeated German master Louis Paulsen by a score of +5, =2, -1. In this game, he demonstrates b... Read more »
Okay, so I was reading the complaint/lawsuit that Sam Sloan filed against Polgar and the complaint contained the follwing excerpt: "During the recently concluded election campaign, Polgar accused a rival candidate of being a homosexual pedoph... Read more »
I am sure that Batgirl knows this information inside and out. But to us chess players and non-chess historians this is different. I found this article to be interesting enough to share with all of you. Enjoy! (Picture from MSN Encarta) ... Read more »
I LOVE playing OTB chess at the club. Life doesn't get any better! But this guy below had some weird experience when he went to a club. David Shenk - Drama King. Here's an excerpt from an article that David Shenk wrote about che... Read more »
This was a very young Bobby Fischer playing against a seasoned Edmar Mednis. For those of you that don't know, he's a video sleep therapist. Just Kidding! He has a bunch of chess videos that will knock you out if you try to watch them... Read more »
Fischer had a slight advantage throughout the game but nothing that would have caused Petrosian to lose drawing chances. Then on move 33 Petrosian got greedy and thought he won a pawn and possibly a second, only to realize that he just g... Read more »
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