Category: Traps, Tricks & Mistakes
For many fans, chess is beautiful because of spectacular combinations leading to checkmate. Especially when they include brilliant piece sacrifices. That is the most visual aspect of this game. However, there is another more...
Sometimes happens that two players have an irregular performance in a tournament and they met each other in the last round. Because none of them has a real chance to advance in the ranking...
Chess players, and especially beginners, repeatedly are taught “do not play always with the same piece”. Beginners (especially kids) don’t pay too much attention to that. They are obsessed with the power that the...
This post is a collaboration with Mr Andrew Crosby who is an expert in chess gambits. Andrew usually plays them in his games with great success. In addition, he is an active member of...
In last week’s post I presented the case of a destroyed fortress. Artashes Minasian, the player conducting the black pieces, missed the chance of building an early fortress because he reasoned that a previous...
Throughout history there have been conflicts, battles and wars between groups, tribes and countries. To defend from external aggression, men built walls surrounding their settlements. They used ressitant materials like stones or wood and...
Viswanathan Anand is an Indian chess GM and former World Chess Champion. He was born on December, 11th 1966, and became the first GM from India in 1988. In April 2006, he became the...
In February 2023 took place in Dusseldorf (Germany) the WR Chess Masters tournament. 10 top players participated in a simple round-robin for a fund price of 130,000 Euros. The tournament was a mix of...
The 8th Chess Olympiad took place in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1939 and 39 years later that same country hosted this event again. Hungary won the 23rd Olympiad of 1978 ahead of USSR and...
This post is a collaboration with Mr Andrew Crosby who is an expert in chess gambits. Andrew usually plays them in his games with great success. In addition, he is an active member of...