Game Spotlight: Steinitz’s Rules
There is a tendency, as players get better as Chess, to follow history. This is especially true when it comes to early Chess history. So we get good at tactics first, and play like...
Tagged: Ruy Lopez
Game Spotlight: Looking for Endgame Patterns
Improving at chess means improving your endgame skills. The good news is that quite a bit of this improvement involves learning some simple patterns that show up frequently, and applying them. The game we’ll...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Spanish Trick for Drawing
There is an easy way to draw in the Ruy Lopez. In one of the main lines, the game reaches a position where both players can agree on a quick draw and that is...
Game Spotlight: Received Wisdom
This is inspired by a story that NM Dan Heisman tells with some regularity. At one point he was coaching Howard Stern (yes, that Howard Stern) and got Stern to play a bunch of...
Game Spotlight: 2018 Olympiad 1
As a disclaimer, this will not be quite the series I intended it to be. I wanted to use some columns to highlight the Olympiad and what happened in East African chess at the...
Game Spotlight: Understanding the Centre
Welcome to NCC’s Game Spotlight! In this column, we’ll be looking at a game each week of interest to club players, either because they were played at our tournaments, or they’re just good to...
