The modern chess environment is not favourable for the common chess professional, who relies on playing opens and leagues to make a living.
The general trend of sharply increased competition from the young generation (not only Indians) coupled w...
#waywardqueen #beginnertips
The Wayward Queen Attack (1. e4 e5 2. Qh5), is an opening that is commonly played by beginners. In fact, in the Lichess community database when limited only to players with an average ELO of 400, it is played...
Hello, my fellow chess lovers, and welcome to another edition of Blitz and Memes. If you're a fan of puzzles taken from amateur online blitz tournaments, then you have come to the right place, because that is what I do.
As always, the tactics ha...
#vienna #maxlange #viennagambit
One of the reasons that the Vienna Gambit is so good at the beginner and intermediate levels, is that most ways of playing against it, other than a single response, is bad. This means that against the unp...
Finally an English version of my best wood chessboards for chess.com. Many of them based on real chessboards.
👉You need the Stylus extension (Chrome, Edge or Opera) (Firefox) in your browser, install it, close the browser and reopen it, only the...
#kingsgambit #birdsopening #fromgambit #quickwins
chess noob Quick Wins! is a series of short videos, to demonstrate very quick wins! As a beginner, you become aware of the Scholar's Mate and the Fool's Mate, but neither of these ...
If there’s a single moment when hypermodern chess crossed over into the mainstream, Carlsbad 1923 is as good a candidate as any. Nimzowitsch appeared in his first major tournament in years displaying his revamped style, which one observer (N...
Discover how to change your environment for the better so that you can live a better life and play better chess!
Introduction
Hello chess friends!
I took a break from posting for a few weeks (as I was overwhelmed with IRL things), so I h...
#carokann #vonhennig #bishopsac #romanticstyle
This was another game from the internal Team Australia tournament for members rated 950-1200, and this was another game where I play some entirely unsound aggressive tactics, mostly for fun...
Hello, my fellow OTB fanatics, and welcome to another edition of the Osaka Papers. The Japanese chess calendar is broken up into two distinct sections: qualifying tournaments for the Japan Chess Championship...and the rest of the year.
Certainly...
Hey chess fans! We are excited to announce that we’ll be recording some videos with the GOAT Magnus Carlsen very soon, and we want to ask him some great questions straight from you! The Chess.com community!
Have a question you’ve alw...
Online CHESSBASE style boards adapted for chesscom! English translation.
There are three styles to choose from, you can customize them by activating or deactivating internal or external borders, backgrounds and highlight color, choose internal o...
Today, I started a new series on YouTube where I will be discussing openings. The first episode is now available. In the video, I explain the 4-step process of working on openings. You can watch it here:
Additionally, I want to share with you...
#romanticchess #vienna #queensac #bishopsac #familyfork
Have you ever found tactical idea in a game, so wonderful, so beautiful, that it DESERVED to be played, regardless of whether it was any good? I had this experience in this game......
The first step in preparing the Steinitz variation, whether playing as White or Black, is to examine the best model games. Among these, the match played between Steinitz himself as White and Alexander Sellman as Black is arguably the most instruct...
Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.
- Savielly Tartakower
INTRODUCTION
Whether you hang checkmate, lose a piece, or just make your position less pleasant, blunders in chess are the worst. We all know the feeling... it's perhaps the...
Good Afternoon Everyone. Sadly I have had plenty of time on my hands this week, so some time with my head in chess books, resulting in a long blog!
I have lots on the tournament. Gideon Barcza played c.c. and there is a mass of material on it sp...
Evaluation bar was made wider in chess.com beta, you can use Stylus to make it thin again.
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#london #dutch #doublecheck #doublecheckmate #quickwins
chess noob Quick Wins! is a series of short videos, to demonstrate very quick wins! As a beginner, you become aware of the Scholar's Mate and the Fool's Mate, but neither of ...
Greetings to all my dear chess friends!
I am excited to use this chess blog to share my unique teaching style with you.
My goal is to analyze at least one exciting game or position every week. I hope you will find it both informative and enjo...
#vienna #mainline #paulsenattack #bardeleben #rooksac
The Vienna Game is a great opening, and my favourite to play with White. Curiously, I don't tend to play AGAINST the Vienna that often, but when I do, I always get a smile! I had thi...
Recently, I released a series called 'Stop Making Blunders!' All the episodes are available on YouTube. One of the topics that I focus on is calculation, and there are two videos explaining that.
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Aron Nimzowitsch had been an emerging star before the war, finishing shared second at San Sebastián 1912 and qualifying for the elite St Petersburg tournament of 1914 where he failed, however, to make the final round. The war displaced him ...
#vienna #greedyqueen #royalfork
This game is a cautionary tale. Bringing out the queen early is often seen as a mistake out of defined lines of theory; certainly it is risky. However, when given the opportunity, it can be difficult to r...
Afternoon everyone. it's been quite a week here, but I have been able to look at a little bit of chess, so a small blog - mainly to show a forgotten game with a charming finish.
Over in the twittersphere a friend posted the picture that the head...