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How to Win Chess Games?

Are you just beginning to play chess and want to know why do you keep loosing these games to a player who is not even good? I will give you couple of vital suggestions and tips that will dramatically improve your chess playing strength.

Let's go over the most important concepts. The first stage of the complex game of chess called the opening. In the opening it is very important to develop chess pieces. That's what the opening is made for, to mobilize your chess army... read more

Who is the best?

Mate in 4. Do you see it?

This game was played during 2008 Delaware Quick Championship and the following position occured on the board. Do you see how can black nicely finish the game?

Delaware Quick Championship 2008

Bear, DE Round 4

Douglas Wise - Yury Markushin

Black to move

World Chess Championship Review

The first game of the World Chess Championship between Anand and Kramnik will be played on Tuesday, October 14th in Bonn, Germany, at 15:00 local time. The match will be played over 12 games and, if necessary, tiebreaks are scheduled for November 2nd.

The games of the World Chess Championship 2008 will be played with classical time control. From all previous resulting games with classical time control between Anand and Kramnik, the statistics shows the following results: Kramnik wins by 6-4

The official website is running an online poll, in three different languages with independents results. Remarkably enough, all 3 results differ a lot from each other!

from the website of Vladimir Kramnik www.kramnik.com

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Administration.

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	B-Year
1	Anand, Viswanathan	GM	IND	2798	1969
2	Morozevich, Alexander	GM	RUS	2788	1977
3	Kramnik, Vladimir	GM	RUS	2788	1975
4	Ivanchuk, Vassily	GM	UKR	2781	1969
5	Topalov, Veselin	GM	BUL	2777	1975
6	Carlsen, Magnus	GM	NOR	2775	1990
7	Radjabov, Teimour	GM	AZE	2744	1987
8	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	GM	AZE	2742	1985
9	Shirov, Alexei	GM	ESP	2741	1972
10	Leko, Peter	GM	HUN	2741	1979

Top 100 Players July 2008 FIDE List

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Online Chess vs. Over The Board Chess

Online chess is fun. Online chess is cool. Online chess is easy to play. But have you ever think about how much time do you spend playing online chess and later wondering why are you not doing well over the board, at real "wooden" chess (or may you be using plastic USCF chess set) somewhere on the Atlantic Open with standard time control? While playing online most people most commonly play so-called quick chess, with time control 10 or 15 minutes for game or even shorter. This kind of chess has NO REAL VALUE for improving your standard time control chess... read more