Winning Queen Endings with Tactical Tricks Queen endings are notoriously difficult to calculate. For one, there are often so many variations of long series of checks to work through. Even very careful players can find themselves getting skewered, mated, or forced into an unfavourable trade...

One day camp on October 3rd for all levels! One day camp with GMs Daniel Naroditsky, Elshan Moradiabadi and WGM Sabina Foisor Read all the details below and contact americanchessacademy@gmail.com to sign up https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SbG70t3BHBvwRPp0hMuI3Xn1puFTHgxGILY1bwO...

The Greatest French Defense Ever Played - Best Of The 70s - Reshevsky vs. Vaganian, 1976 Rafael Vaganian was a tremendous player of Karpov's generation who was one of the strongest players in the world for a decade. Unfortunately, with Karpov and then Kasparov dominating the lists, he was never able to make a serious run at the world ...

Today's Daily Puzzle 9/18/20: You Have A Queen But You're In Zugzwang?! As a quick reminder, Zugzwang is when it's your turn to move but you really wish it wasn't. That is, the current position you have is better than any future position where you move a piece. Usually we're introduced to zugzwang with endgame-type po...

1st Ever Amateur Chess League Knockout Stage Begins! Amateur Chess League is organized by Corporate Chess India in Association with IM Nubairshah Shaikh, ChessDudes (Channel hosted by IM Sankalp Gupta & IM Sammed Shete) and Chess.com India as the official media partner and Chess.com as the playi...

Live Chess World League: Iran Defeats Kazakhstan LCWL got some close matches across the divisions in the first "Free Week" of this season. Iran vs Kazakhstan After a long time, LCWL had a match on Friday. Looks like, the Kazakhs didn't prepare very well for the season opener. They were large...

Nakamura's Bongcloud (+ Video) A good friend told me some months ago “Hey, Miche, I love to see Naka doing Bongcloud, have you seen that?” I really like Nakamura’s stream, but for different reasons, I don’t see it so often. And I was not completely sure ...

New On ChessKid: Chess in Slums, Classroom Planners, and JSCC Hi ChessKids and parents! We hope back-to-school season is treating you well. Whether it's online or virtual, ChessKid is busy helping grow chess with kids all over the world. Here are your September updates! ChessKid Partners With Chess in Slum...

Webinar 49. How to Beat Sicilian Defense with Alapin Variation (for white) My Dear Chess Friends! How often do you have to play with white pieces against Sicilian Defense? According to the statistics 50% of all club players has at least one of Sicilian Defense lines in their black repertoire! Why? Because Sicilian Defe...

Japan's Performance in the FIDE Online Olympiad 2020 - Summary The FIDE Online Chess Olympiad for 2020 (full article) saw 163 teams and over 1,500 participants from all over the world competing on Chess.com. You can find all results posted here.Division 3Here are the results from the division in which Japan c...

A Chess Masterpiece But The Players Are 1500! - Best Of The 70s - Catig vs. Mills, 1974 Do you desire to play a true chess masterpiece but feel you just aren't strong enough? This brilliant battle between two true chess amateurs (1500 players) shows that it is possible! Black (Michael Mills) plays the game of a lifetime, a game that ...

Today's Daily Puzzle 9/16/20: Loose Pieces Create Tactics Among other important practices when solving puzzles (calculating checks/captures, finding threats, etc.), it's very important to identify all loose pieces in the position. In today's puzzle, it may be surprising to learn that the only reason this...

Chess Brilliancies III Francis Percival Wenman Percy Wenman (1892-1972), born in England. In 1911 he moved to Scotland where he began his amateur chess career, married Elizabeth Thompson, had a son, Marcus Heathcote and a daughter Alice Elizabeth and started h...

Chess Brilliancies II Francis Percival Wenman Percy Wenman (1892-1972), born in England. In 1911 he moved to Scotland where he began his amateur chess career, married Elizabeth Thompson, had a son, Marcus Heathcote and a daughter Alice Elizabeth and started h...

Chess Brilliancies I Francis Percival Wenman Percy Wenman (1892-1972) was born in England. In 1911 he moved to Scotland where he married Elizabeth Thompson, had a son, Marcus Heathcote and a daughter Alice Elizabeth and started his amateur chess career. ...

Live Chess World League Announces Official YouTube Channel The Live Chess World League (LCWL) is pleased to announce the creation of an official Live Chess World League YouTube Channel. Run by @ME_Mosharrof, the channel will host frequent live streams of some of the LCWL's most exciting battles....

Today's Daily Puzzle 9/14/20: The Teleportation Queen Good Morning Puzzlers! In today's daily puzzle there's no denying black would love to teleport her queen to b2. Unfortunately, the rules of chess prohibit queens from jumping over multiple pieces so black will have to come up with a clever way t...

Is This The Most Crushing Isolated Pawn Attack Ever? - Best Of The 70s - Keene vs. Miles, 1976 The 1970s were a peculiar chess decade. After the incredible drama and excitement of the 1970-72 Fischer run at the world championship, the later part of the decade was left in turmoil after Fischer's departure. The surprising rise of another Sovi...

Double Bishop Sacrifice in a Masterpiece (+ Video) Hi chess lovers. Learning patterns is always useful in this game because we can use that accumulated knowledge to assess and make decisions in our games. This time we are going to analyze a typical and common sacrifice for the attack to the castle...

JSCC Weekend Prediction Recap The Junior Speed Chess Championship (JSCC) is one of my favorite events of the year. We get to watch 16 of the top juniors compete in the same exciting knockout format as the Speed Chess Championship. I have been running stats on speed chess champ...

I was on the Perpetual Chess Podcast again :) Hello Chess Friends, So I was lucky enough to be featured on the Perpetual Chess Podcast hosted by Ben Johnson this past week along with another adult improver, Andrzej Kryzdwa to talk about how chess has been going after my rapid 400 point rati...

The Winawer French has Been Updated! Here is Why Hello French Defense players! (If you don't play the French but play against it, come along) Due to school, I may only post once a week on weekends. However, I will still try to make each video around 15 minutes fun. If you are very fond of my v...

Kramnik and AlphaZero Blundering, Grossly The top chess has been in a state of crisis. There has been an ever decreasing number of decisive games ("the draw death") that plagues the professional chess. The opening theory has grown to grotesque proportions. There is an undue, unhea...

Bird on Bird's Opening. Some self indulgence today! Hopefully some of you will find it interesting. A conversation with the wonderful Hans Renette reminded me that I had done a lot of the spade work for a Henry Bird related article. Grabbing bits together to go off on ...