Initially, this was imagined as a single post. Due to its length, we have decided to split it into two parts. The second part titled Another 7 Checkmate Patterns Every Chess Player Should Know can…
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Weird Chess Openings
No, this is not a post about the London System. Some time ago, I stumbled on an entertaining question on Quora titled What are the coolest chess opening names. I wrote a short, but a…
10 Endgames Every Chess Player Should Know
“It is impossible to become a World Class player without proper endgame technique”. ~ Mark Dvoretsky Ever since starting my chess career, I have been a terrible endgame player. Oh sure, I have read some…
How To Analyze Your Chess Games Like A Pretentious Asshole
Analyzing your own games We all know we should analyze our own games. In his interview, European Champion Ivan Šarić mentioned it as a tool on the road of chess improvement. Several other grandmasters and…
Chess study 31 – Genrikh Kasparyan
Chess study 31 Genrikh Kasparyan study Genrikh Kasparyan is considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies. Outside of Armenia, he is better known by the Russian version of his…
Best chess beginner books
Best chess beginner books Everybody knows how confusing and difficult it is to learn something from the scratch. Chess, being the rich and complicated game it is, is by no means an exception. More experienced…
The Legal Trap
INTRODUCTION On the road toward chess mastery, a chess player acquires knowledge about numerous attacking mechanism and mating patterns. For instance, every strong player is familiar with the typical sacrifice of the bishop on h7,…
Fast checkmates
Introduction We human tend to get obsessed with the superlatives in any field of human activity. We are constantly trying to determine who is the biggest, the strongest, the most intelligent, the greatest ever, etc…..
Best chess middle game books
Introduction In the previous post we have already identified chess middle game as the phase of the chess game that tends to be hardest to improve. The points mentioned in that post very much apply to…
What Was I Thinking #3 – Sten Boban
PREFACE The hero of the Featured Sundays #3 is a young Croatian player and my close personal… acquitance.. mr. Sten Boban. His style is very prophylactic and he is known as the “Croatian Petrosian”, or…
What Was I Thinking #2 – Vjekoslav Nemec
Preface In this edition of the What Was I Thinking, I will be brave enough to put one of my own games. This weekend I have participated in a team rapid event in which the best team…
Best chess endgame books
Chess endgame Bibles After assembling a list of best chess tactical books in the previous post and after writing a first post in the “endgame domain”, we thought that the next logical step is making…