Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Suddenly Turn The Tables
The FIDE World Cup 2023 took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from Jul, 30th to Aug, 21st. 206 players participated in the Open section while 103 players in the Women section. The format used in...
Category: Traps, Tricks & Mistakes
Traps, Tricks & Misstakes: Facing Novelties
The city of Bled (in the former Yugoslavia) held in 1931 a major chess tournament where fourteen leading chess masters took part in a double Round-Robin competition. Alexander Alekhine was the winner with 20,5...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Plan B
Ambitious chess players try to study all aspects of this game, from openings to endgames. There are hundreds of openings and in order to remember what they have studied, a good memory is important....
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Wrong Focus
The FIDE World Cup 2023 took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from Jul, 30th to Aug, 21st. 206 players participated in the Open section while 103 players in the Women section. The format used in...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Greco’s Legacy. King’s Gambit -III-
Gioacchino Greco (1600-1634) was an Italian chess player who recorded some of the oldest known chess games in their entirety. In his games never appears the opponent’s name, which led historians to conclude that...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Illusionism
Every year, in September, the city of Saint Louis (Missouri, USA) hosts the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz and the Sinquefield Cup. Both are part of the Grand Chess Tour. The chess community will...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Weaknesses
The FIDE World Cup 2023 took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from Jul, 30th to Aug, 21st. 206 players participated in the Open section and 103 players in the Women section. The format used in...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Small Inaccuracies
There is a similarity between a game of chess and a dialogue. In a dialogue, both speakers present their arguments by making statements and asking questions. When one part wants to persuade the other,...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Firouzja’s Scholar’s Mate
Friendly games are good opportunities for practicing new ideas or testing your opponent’s knowledge of unusual openings. Besides that, those games make a lot of fun. I found today’s game on chess.com. Contendents are...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Legendary King Walk
Nigel David Short (1965) is an English GM, columnist, coach and FIDE Director for Chess Development since 2022. Nigel Short learned chess at the age of five after watching his father teaching his older...
