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The Chess Pyramid Treasure: Can You Find It?

The Chess Pyramid Treasure: Can You Find It?

VOB96
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Hello, dear readers! As you can imagine, my last article about the Chess Prodigies Who Flopped was very research intensive. It was also a heavy topic, especially some of the stories. So, to bring some joy back to my blog, this time, I decided to...

Two Masters, Two Grim Fates

Two Masters, Two Grim Fates

AstroTheoretical_Physics
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For quite a while now, my blog page has been filled with tragic and inspiring stories from the chess world. Some very sad, some very encouraging, writing these blogs has become my forte. Whether it be the story of Peter Winston whose sudden disapp...

Coach's Corner: Laura Smith

Coach's Corner: Laura Smith

Chessable
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Many of us would think that parenting three kids and working as an elementary school teacher doesn’t leave much time for pursuing another career. Not NM Laura Smith! The Brooklynite manages to be both a chess coach and Chessable author. I...

Chessable Roundup: March 14, 2025

Chessable Roundup: March 14, 2025

Chessable
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As you probably know, real improvement in chess requires studying all key aspects of the game: strategy, opening, tactics, and endgame. Among our latest releases from the last two weeks, you'll find a course for each one of them...

Kan Sicilian Rapid Arena

Kan Sicilian Rapid Arena

FM Gertsog
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Dear Chess Friends, I am pleased to invite you to the Kan Sicilian Rapid Arena, which I will be hosting TODAY, March 13th at 10 AM EDT, on Chess.com in the Chesslance Club. Here are some tournament details:Duration: 1 hourTime Control: 10 minu...

9 Amazing Chess Photos From 2024

9 Amazing Chess Photos From 2024

raync910
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Last year was amazing for surprising chess events, but not all the drama happened over the board at a tournament. Fortunately, chess photographers were ready to record the action. Do you remember these dramatic chess scenes? Photo Index Guk...

Why Australian GMs Love The Scandinavian

Why Australian GMs Love The Scandinavian

GM Illingworth
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Why Aussie GMs Love The Scandinavian⁣⁣    ⁣Dear chess friends,⁣⁣Today I will share with you why Australian Grandmasters (especially, Rogers, Smerdon and myself) love the Scandinavian Defence against 1.e4! ⁣⁣We'll see a lot of fun example...

More AI chess images

More AI chess images

Rocky64
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Last year my blog AI chess images examined a free online tool that employs AI to generate high-quality pictures, based on descriptions given in natural language. I used the application to create a set of 32 chess-themed images which can be downloa...

The Crazy Rook: Saving a Lost Game with Stalemate

The Crazy Rook: Saving a Lost Game with Stalemate

IM MatBobula
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Endgames can have surprising tricks, even in positions that look lost. That position comes from one of the games I saw in last week's tournament. White is ahead in material (by 6 points), and the pawns are not far from promotion (the 1st rank is...

Do Openings Really Not Matter?

Do Openings Really Not Matter?

NM NMChessToImpress
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Hey Impressive Chessers!  You’ve heard it all before, “Don’t study openings, just develop your pieces, control the center and get your King safe by castling it to a safe side” - A ton of content creating titled ...

A Century of Chess: Richard Réti (1920-29)

A Century of Chess: Richard Réti (1920-29)

kahns
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Richard Réti was born in 1889 to a Jewish Austro-Hungarian family in what's now Slovakia and was raised mostly in Vienna. As a six-year-old, he pulled the Capablanca/Smyslov trick of watching his older family members play a chess game and t...

This Black Opening DESTROYS Players Below 2200

This Black Opening DESTROYS Players Below 2200

GM Illingworth
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Dear chess friends,Would you like to know how to defeat players rated below 2200, when they play 1.e4 as White?Then you have come to the right place In this blog, you'll discover:- The opening setup that is a POINT MACHINE against players below 22...

Petrosian's Magic

Petrosian's Magic

kamalakanta
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Petrosian has been qualified by some as a "Mysterious" player. Some people classify him as a positional player with a super-cautious style. Spassky, however, who played two World Championship matches with Petrosian, considered Petrosian to be a ...

SRM Is Sole Leader With 6/6

SRM Is Sole Leader With 6/6

ChesscomIN
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In Division 1, SRM-A is leading the 2025 India College Chess Championship (ICCL) Spring Season with a perfect score after six rounds. Teams SRCC and Jeppiaar University are tied for second place with five wins.  Standings after Round 6 | Di...

Coach's Corner: Alvar Alonso Rosell

Coach's Corner: Alvar Alonso Rosell

Chessable
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Few authors can boast about having a course on a chess opening that matches their origin. This is the case of Grandmaster Àlvar Alonso, who hails from Catalonia, Spain, and wrote the highly regarded course Lifetime Repertoires: Alonso&rs...

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