Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Fascinating Trap
The Scholar’s mate is probably the first trap beginners learn. When children starting playing chess know and understand it, they are eager to use it in their games and are happy to catch opponents...
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Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Trap Illusion
In this series, we have seen traps in different openings. When studying openings, it’s a good practice to be aware of traps hidden in their variations. As I mentioned in some posts, it’s possible...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Scandinavian Judo
The majority of followers of these posts probably have listened or read about judo. Judo is a martial art born in Japan about 200 years ago and one of its fundamental concepts is “to...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Scandinavian Sinking
Dear readers, you already know the difference between absolute and relative pins. The Legal Trap is one example of a relative pin and its pattern is a recurrent motif in openings where one of...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: Trap on Scandinavian
Overloading a piece is a chess tactic resource. It consists in giving a defensive piece an additional defensive assignment which it cannot complete without abandoning its original defensive task. When a piece has too...
Game Spotlight: Annotating Your Games
Improving at Chess means fixing your thinking process. Of course, exactly what habits to remove and what information to add is highly personal. In the end, though, you need to be accountable for your...
Game Spotlight: 61st NCC Open 6
Let’s look at one of the endgames played in the 61st Nairobi Chess Club Open Championship. In this game, we end up with a Rook endgame where White has an outside passed pawn. We’ll...
Game Spotlight: 61st NCC Open 4
Let’s delve a bit more into the games played at the 61st Nairobi Chess Club Open Championship. This round 1 game features the best combination I saw played. Two quick notes before getting into...
Traps, Tricks & Mistakes: GM Trapped in the Scandinavian
In the recent 43rd. Chess Olympiad celebrated in Batumi (Republic of Georgia) 185 teams took part in the open section and 151 in the women’s section. Players’ rating in the open section going from...
Game Spotlight: NCC Closed Tournament 1
The 2018 edition of the NCC Closed Championship was held over the past 4 weeks, with one game per week at a time control of 60 minutes. Spreading the games out in this way...
