Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Krejcik Trap Reloaded
The quickest way for winning a chess game is to capture the opponent’s queen. That uses to happen with high probability when playing the queen too early in the game. A genuine specialist in...
Category: Traps, Tricks & Mistakes
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: The Hunter Hunted
In the initial part of the game, it is advisable to develop pieces and fight for central squares. That is what chess manuals and coaches recommend. Nevertheless, it is a player’s decision which piece...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Mieses Trap
Two things cause fascination in beginners: First, that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess. Second, the advice of not moving the queen too early in the game. The subsequent reason for...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: It’s the Watch!
Look at the following opening: 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 According to the chess opening classification, it has the unpronounceable name “Przepiorka Variation”. But the subject of today’s post it is not that name....
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: A Touching Case
Today’s ‘mini-game’ is another example of reinforcing Fischer’s sentence: “Chess demands total concentration”. The game was played in 1889. The players were well-known masters of that time: Siegbert Tarrasch and Semion Alapin. Despite it,...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Late Blunder
Blunder in the endgame is always painful. Especially after being playing for hours a tough game. If not, see what happened to Russian GM Ian Nepomniatchtchi in his game against Vishwanathan Anand in the...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Trap on Scandinavian
Overloading a piece is a chess tactic resource. It consists in giving a defensive piece an additional defensive assignment which it cannot complete without abandoning its original defensive task. When a piece has too...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Mistakes GM-Size
The Altibox Norway Chess Tournament is a closed super tournament held in Norway every year in the time period of May to June. The best world chess players take place. The format consists of...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Lonely King
Every chess beginner learns more or less painfully that the king needs protection. Leaving the king alone is the safest way to get checkmated. In today’s game, both players develop their pieces according to...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Copying Mistakes
According to FIDE rules: “during play the players are forbidden to make use of any notes, sources of information or advice, or analyze on another chessboard”. But what happened in round 8 of the...
