Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Knights Dance
Games with rapid, blitz and bullet format are the most popular nowadays. In those games there are plenty of mistakes and blunders. But they are a lot of fun. That’s why Rapid and Blitz...
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Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Nightmare Trap
Mixing chess schemes can lead to embarrassing situations and an ideal territory to fall into unexpected traps. The opening of today’s game starts with the topic of central dominance which is common in the...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Missed Win
The 2023 European Team Chess Championship took place in Budva, Montenegro, from 11th to 20th November. 38 teams were participating in the Open section and 32 in the Women’s section. The European Team Championship...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Greco’s Legacy. King’s Gambit -V-
Gioacchino Greco (1600-1634), frequently known as ‘Il Calabrese’, was an Italian strong chess player who recorded some of the oldest known chess games in their entirety. He played chess for money against anyone who...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Reward
The Chess Club Friesen in Berlin (Germany) organizes every summer the well-attended international tournament “Lichtenberger Sommer”. Every year around 200 players take part in that competition. Because of an open event, participants of all...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Erigaisi’s Painful Blunder
Qatar held in October-2023 the third edition of the important tournament “Qatar Masters Open”. While the first and second editions took place in 2014 and 2015 respectively, an eight-year gap elapsed until the third...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Logic
There is a general tendency to think that master players are able to calculate many moves in advance. It isn’t true. Chess masters are experienced players who have played thousands of games and they...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Mahindra Blunders
Tech Mahindra Global Chess League (GCL) is the world’s first and largest chess league. Tech Mahindra, an Indian multinational information technology services company is the main sponsor behind the league. Together with FIDE, they...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: French Rubinstein Trap
The attitude when playing chess can determine what happens in the game. To face a game absent-mindedly can cause many troubles. We always have moments in the day when our brain relaxes and we...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Round Trip
The 2023 European Team Chess Championship took place in Budva, Montenegro, from November 11 to 20. 38 teams took part in the Open section and 32 in the Women section. Four players composed each...
