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Most chess games are decided in the middle-game where the main action takes place. In the opening players just deliver pieces and put their king to safety preparing for an assault. There are three most fundamental chess elements that decide level of a player: positional understanding, combinational vision and calculating ability.

Many chess players ask me the same question, how to improve at chess. There are different options available that can get you where you want to be with your chess. In today’s article, we will look at different training options and will try to figure out which ones make sense and which ones not so […]

It is well know that in order to improve your positional understanding you need to study games of stronger chess players. What do we do about tactics? Do you need to solve tons of problems? The answer is ‘yes’ and ‘no’. You need to solve the right type of tactics, the ones that actually have […]

According to a famous chess coach Viktor Goncharov, today’s chess training methods have multiple serious flaws. The most significant one is probably the inability of chess coaches (very strong chess players themselves) to understand the difficulties that their students are facing when studying chess.

Magnus Carlsen is not only successful because of his tremendous tactics calculating ability, middlegame understanding, and photographic memory. A big part of his success is due to his superior understanding of endgame positions, something not very common to the younger generation of chess players. Often, even in dead equal positions, Carlsen is able to squeeze […]

Today we will talk about the most common opening mistakes that many chess players around the globe are making subconsciously, without realizing that they are doing something wrong. These mistakes are easy to spot and fix, but you need to know what to look for. Here they are:

Fabiano Caruana is an American-born Italian chess grandmaster, number two rated chess player in the world. In October 2014 he became the third highest rated player ever, with a peak elo of 2844, right after winning the Sinquefield Cup with impressive 3080 performance. Caruana considered by many the main contender for the world championship title […]

Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster, current World Champion in all three categories classic, rapid and blitz and a number 1 rated chess player in the world. His elo peaked at 2882. It is the highest rating a human player has ever had. We present 10 of many of amazing Magnus Carlsen chess games […]

If you want to improve your chess and to become a good chess player, you need to watch out for these 10 things that good chess players don’t do. These are easy to avoid and pretty intuitive things but somehow many chess players miss them. Just keep these things in mind and you will make […]

Many players miss a big opportunity to improve their chess by not properly analyzing their games. In fact, most people simply do not analyze their games at all. They think that instead of spending time on going over their games, they can play a couple more. Instead of learning from mistakes and correcting it, these […]