To improve in chess, players need to work hard studying many aspects of the game. Objectively analysing the own games is a first step in detecting mistakes, weaknesses and/or defects in our own approach...
This post is a collaboration with Mr Andrew Crosby. Andrew is an expert in chess gambits, which he usually plays in his games with great success. He is a member of our virtual Chess.com...
The same trap motif can appear in different openings. Sometimes the pattern is difficult to discover and then even great masters fall into the trap. Do you remember the “Elephant Trap”? In today example...
Rubinstein trap is named after Akiba Rubinstein. Interestingly, it is not because Rubinstein was the player who invented the trap, but because he got trapped twice into it. The first time in his game...
