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Winning what is already won is one of the key elements to consolidate certain strength at chess. How many times have you heard chess players go out of a game saying “I was totally winning.. and I drew/lost” ?Or better yet, how many times have you said the same phrase? It is not a good […]
Positional sacrifice is something that majority of amateur chess players don’t understand. It is a mysterious technique for most club players; they don’t want to take their chances and prefer to simply stay away. If they knew how to use the positional sacrifice effectively that alone could easily add a good 200 points.
Have you ever made a move without giving it enough thought? Do you have trouble focusing on the board during the game? The chances are you answered “yes” for both of those questions. In today’s article we will take a look at 5 things that you should never do during the game. You don’t want […]
Since my very first steps in chess, I came across a very important lesson: the chess principles, or general laws of chess, must be respected. Everyone around me, from club players to chess Grandmasters was stressing the importance of following them, so I took their word for it.
It is no surprise that positional understanding is extremely important for those who want to become stronger chess player. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to master the positional understanding without really digging into the topic. One of the ways of studying the positional chess is by going through chess games of the strong players. […]
Today we present 30 quotes about the game that we all love. These quotes are a mix of great ideas by world’s best like Kasparov, Fischer, Korchnoi, Carlsen as well as by some “less known” chess individuals like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Fenton, Rick Kennedy and so on. Enjoy and learn!
All chess players want to become masters, but only 1% succeed and the other 99% fail. Is that because they don’t have talent, necessary IQ level or some other master traits? Nope. The 99% don’t reach the master level for a completely different set of reasons. Curious to find out why? Read on.
Today will discuss some of the most common chess myths that most people believe. Can grandmasters calculate 30 moves ahead? Are older chess players generally stronger? Is chess a purely mental game? Keep on reading the article to learn the answers to these and more questions.
There are thousands of books written on openings, hundreds of books are written on the middlegame, and only few books are available on endgames. Most of the available endgame materials deal with theoretical of artificial positions. Yes, they are all beautiful, but not as useful for practical chess player. In this article we will study […]
Attacking is one of the most important and brutal forms of winning a game. While some players are born with these skills, others like more quiet positions and need to acquire those attacking skills as well. Solving tactics and studying typical sacrifices is, of course, very important, but knowing all this could turn out useless […]
