Tagged: Sicilian Defence

Game Spotlight: Opening Blind

While knowing a lot of opening theory isn’t helpful at the club level (you should be spending more time on tactics and endgames), it’s still important to know some.  At least, if the position...

Game Spotlight: Your Chess Hero

One of the more popular pieces of advice for improving players is to pick a chess “hero”, a professional player you play like, and study their games.  While this is good advice in general...

Game Spotlight: Bad Shape

There is a shogi proverb that states, “Bad shape leads to bad shape.”  Though more correctly, it should say, “Bad shape leads to worse shape.”  The problem is that because most shogi pieces don’t...

Game Spotlight: 2018 Jamhuri Cup 4

In this final selection from the recently completed Jamhuri Cup, we have an example of how openings are not necessarily fixed things.  This game changes openings twice! The Capablanca Cup kicks off our 2019...

Game Spotlight: NCC 60th Open 8

I believe this is our chairman’s favourite game of the 2018 Nairobi Chess Club Open Championship.  Queen sacrifices are among the most spectacular occurrences on a chessboard, so it’s fun to see one pay...

Game Spotlight: NCC 60th Open 7

I knew I wanted to highlight this game as soon as I input it at the 2018 Nairobi Chess Club Open Championship.  There’s two things I think are notable about this game.  First, White does...