Chess studies #12: Gurgenidze Kalandadze study This one is really beautiful. Can you spot the winning idea?
Chess tactics 43
Chess tactics 43
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…
Chess tactics 42
Chess tactics 42
Chess tactics 41
Chess tactics 41
Chess studies 11 – Kotov Mitrofanov study
CHESS STUDY 11 Kotov – Mitrofanov study Another week, another study, another Mitrofanov. After examining two Mitrofanov’s brilliancies in weekly chess study #2 and weekly chess study #10, we present another one of his gems….
Chess in popular culture
Chess gone mainstream February 19th, 2017 will go down in history of chess as a date when chess became an integral part of the mainstream popular culture. Because on February 19th, 2017, the 15th episode of the…
Chess tactics 40
Chess tactics 40 Stefansson – Carlsen, 2007
Best chess players never to become World Champion – part one – Viktor Korchnoi
In the history of the chess there were only sixteen undisputed World Champions. The names of those masters who have managed to win the most valuable chess title are rather well known. Every chess player…
Chess tactics 39
Chess tactics 39 Therefore, this puzzle was not a valid puzzle and I can only try to extricate myself from the unpleasant position with a South Park video:
Chess tactics 38
Chess tactics 38