Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Radjabov’s Misery
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...
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Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Marathon of Inaccuracies
The Chennai Grand Masters 2024 was India’s strongest classical super-tournament of the year. It took place in Chennai from November 5 to 11. The tournament used an eight-player round-robin with a time control of...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Carlsen’s Swindle
The 2024 Julius Baer Generation Cup (JBGC) was the fourth and final online event of the Champions Chess Tour (CCT). In 2024 the CCT featured four online events and live, in-person Finals and was...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Thunder On A Blue Sky
The FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2024/25 consisted of six tournaments played according to the round-robin system. The time control was 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, plus 30 minutes from move 40. There...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Hidden Tactic
The Chess Olympiad, held every two years, is the chess event with the highest participation. In the 45th Chess Olympiad held in Budapest (Hungary) 380 national teams from almost 200 countries competed in an...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: CK Old Trap
You have probably read chess books about openings. Usually they provide many variations. Remembering long sequences of moves is difficult. Because of that, comments explaining the meaning of those moves are necessary. Good chess...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Houdini Escape
From November, 25 to December 13, took place in Singapore the World Championship match between Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju. The match consisted of 14 classical games plus rapid tie-breaks in case of a...
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...
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...
