Submitted by on Sun Oct 4, 2009 6:32pm.
This game features one of the greatest Chess tacticians of all time, Mikhail Tal. He plays the Rubinstein Variation of the French Defense. Black takes over the initiative right from the start. White pays for his passive and inaccurate play in 18 m... Read more »
Submitted by on Wed Sep 9, 2009 6:18pm.
I have mentioned the benefits studying Chess miniatures before. This game features the Danish Gambit where White sacrifices several pawns for rapid development, and then tries to sacrifice a piece which Black declines, and at the end, I could not ... Read more »
Submitted by on Mon Sep 7, 2009 3:14am.
Studying miniatures has many benefits. First, almost always, the winner wins quickly because the loser did something (really bad) that s/he should not have done in the opening. Second, related to the first reason, one learns what not to do. Third,... Read more »
Submitted by on Wed May 28, 2008 10:45pm.
After losing the first game with White, I decided to study/review the King's Indian Defense and use it as Black against 1.d4. In the previous couple of tournaments, I had played the Gruenfeld Defense. Going to this tournament, I had not settle... Read more »
Submitted by on Tue May 27, 2008 10:11pm.
Here is my first game in the 17th Annual Chicago Open that I played in over the weekend. I was White, and I lost to a King's Indian Defense that I mishandled at various points. At first, I lost a bunch of tempos - (poor/inconsistent decisions)... Read more »
Submitted by on Sat Mar 8, 2008 2:41pm.
Here is my 5th and last game of the 2008 Mid-America Open tournament that was played last weekend. At the time, it appeared I was already assured of being in the top two or three. I needed a draw to be an outright winner. I do not know how to play... Read more »
Submitted by on Sat Mar 8, 2008 10:55am.
Here is another Grunfeld Defense which almost went wrong! After winning three games in a row the day before, a friend told me that I was the only one with 3 points after 3 rounds in our section, U2000. It was exciting. Could I make it 4-0? This wa... Read more »
Submitted by on Thu Mar 6, 2008 6:06am.
Here is my second game of the 2008 Mid-America Open tournament. It was the Slav Defense of QGD. I was happy with how I had relentless pressure against the Black King. I later sacrificed a pawn for a winning attack... I have annotated the game and ... Read more »
Submitted by on Sat Dec 1, 2007 8:31pm.
How do you defend against three possible checkmates coming from an opponent who offers you a Queen and leaves her "unprotected" for 4 moves? The problem is... you can't touch her (the Queen)! According to Alekhine, Black makes an ina... Read more »
Submitted by on Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:57pm.
"The Trouble with Genius" - Here is an excerpt from Time Magazine, March 15,2004: "At a chess tournament in Tunisia in 1967, Bobby Fischer, then 24, was pitted against another American grand master, Samuel Reshevsky. At game time, F... Read more »
