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Yury Markushin
07.02.2020
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Yury Markushin
07.02.2020

Looking for a great gift for a chess player.. or for some inspiration? Chess is Art is a unique book based on seven years of detective work searching art’s hidden archives. Consisting of paintings by more than 700 artists, Chess in Art captures 800 years of artistic progression through social, political, technological, and industrial evolution. […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
02.14.2020

Building an Attack: You look at great attacking games in the history of chess and everything looks so easy and logical. Then you go to the game, inspired and ready to create a deadly attack, but somehow that’s not as easy to achieve as you thought in the first place. So, how do they do […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
12.28.2019

Studying the games of the classical players is a well-known way of training for the players who want to improve their strength and their overall chess understanding. What better way to learn is there than from the very best? Understanding their train of thought, their personality and their training routine can be a great source […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
12.18.2019

Studying the games of the classical players is a great tool of learning for those who want to improve at chess. From typical plans in a certain structure to positional and tactical ideas, there is a great deal to learn from the games of the strongest players of our game. You will discover that each […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
10.18.2019

Motivation in Chess: The journey of a chess player is no easy thing. When looking from the outside, it may seem so easy the way Grandmasters play. Their moves just flow and everything makes sense. They find amazing ideas that sometimes seem so simple and logical anyone could do it. In fact, all that great […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
10.04.2019

Development advantage is one of the most important pluses in chess and can become a powerful weapon in the hands of those who know how to use it. Unlike other types of advantages in chess, if you are ahead in development you have to act fast. This is an advantage that can dissipate in a […]

GM Alex Colovic
08.21.2019
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GM Alex Colovic
08.21.2019

This should NOT be played: I have never considered myself an attacking player even though most of my games when I was young were decided by attacks on the king. I attribute it to youth and not feeling too comfortable in other areas of positional play. Still, I was good at seeing tactics and calculation, […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
06.14.2019

Chess Parent influence and the role of parents is great to the young ones. Chess is a complex game that takes a lot of time and dedication. We all know that improvement does not come overnight and, to make things even better, it is not so easy to measure it either in chess. You need […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
06.11.2019

The Tiger. Who is that? If there is a player that everyone likes that has to be Viswanathan Anand or the way we all know him, “Vishy” the Tiger from Madras. Vishy has been in the selected group of elite players for decades, winning tournaments and leaving behind a thread of great games for chess […]

WGM Raluca Sgircea, IM Renier Castellanos
06.07.2019

Losing a Game: Chess players are usually highly interesting people. Chess stands somewhere between art, sports, and science, universes where a chess player can drift away from the real world for as long as he wants. The chess world is full of unique stories. Every player has hundreds of anecdotes with things that have happened […]