Category: Traps, Tricks & Mistakes
Paul Charles Morphy (1837 – 1884) was a genius American chess player. Despite his short chess career, his contemporaries considered Morphy as the world’s greatest chess master. Morphy was born in New Orleans to...
Everyone expects that players know the rules of chess when participating in official competitions. When beginners start playing chess, they learn how to move pieces. Along that process, they learn a special move: castle....
Held in Goa, India from 1 to 26 November, the FIDE World Cup 2025 was a 206-player field with eight rounds of single-elimination knockout. In each round, players face in two classical games of...
The 2025 European Club Cup took place in Rhodes, Greece, from October 19 to 25. The tournament was a seven-round team Swiss event. And combined top-level chess with amateur players. Strong chess club from...
The 13th edition of the London Chess Classic was a 10-player classical round-robin tournament. It took place in London during December 1-10, 2023. Indian GM Gukesh headed the field of players. Followed Russian GM...
Every year in Stavanger (Norway) takes place the tournament Norway Chess. In 2024, the tournament brought together six top players in a double round-robin. Among them, Carlsen, who had won that competition five times....
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (born 1994) is an Indian chess master. He attained the GM title in January 2013, becoming the 30th player from India to obtain that qualification. In 2023 he won the FIDE...
Bodhana Sivanandan is an English girl who is recently receiving great international attention. She started attracting attention in 2023 after an amazing performance. She won the U8 World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships with...
In Wikipedia I found an accurate definition about what we call Artificial Intelligence: “Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning,...
Lu Miaoyi (born 2010) is a Chinese WGM (Woman Grandmaster) and chess prodigy who belongs to a family of chess players. Her mother Xu Yuanyuan holds also the title of WGM. She won the...