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...
When we talk about Blitz and bullet games, we refer to chess variants with short time control. Usually less than 5 minutes per player. While time controls for blitz are between 3 and 5...
The Sinquefield Cup is a prestigious tournament held every year in September in the city of Saint Louis (Missouri, USA). The tournament receives its name from the founders of the Saint Louis Chess Club,...
In chess, we give the name of gambits to openings where one player sacrifices material (pawns and/or pieces) in order to achieve some advantage, usually quick developing of own pieces. Maybe you wonder how...
In a previous post, I wrote about the opposition. I showed there that the kings are in opposition when they are in the same rank or file with only one square between them. Specifically,...
