Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need a photographic memory to be proficient at blindfold chess. The basic visualization required is really not all that different from the kind of mental exercise chess players commonly experience while calculating long endgame variations. In fact, if you’ve ever had a vivid chess dream while sleeping (quite commonContinue reading “Playing Blindfold Chess”
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An Eggs-tra Special Easter Chess Lesson
In today’s chess lesson, we examine GM Julio Becerra Rivero’s egg-citing victory over IM Justin Sarkar played on Easter Sunday, 2009. [Event “Foxwoods Open”] [Site “Mashantucket, CT”] [Date “2009.4.12”] [Round “9”] [White “Justin Sarkar”] [Black “Julio Becerra Rivero”] [Result “0-1”] [Eco “D17”] [Annotator “Chris Torres”] {[ QUEEN’S gam. SLAV def.,D17]} 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 {TheContinue reading “An Eggs-tra Special Easter Chess Lesson”
#Chess Game Worth Sharing
Here is the game which the position from last night’s puzzle originated from. All in all, a fine miniature against the Philidor Defense, Hanham Variation (C41 – Philidor, Hanham variation: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nd7.) [Event “Blitz”] [Site “SocialChess”] [Date “2017.06.29”] [White “Chris Torres”] [Black “Miranda36_2001 (1567)”] [Result “1-0”] 1.e4 e5Continue reading “#Chess Game Worth Sharing “
#Chess Puzzle Worth Sharing 19
White to play and mate in three moves.
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nd4
Below is the infamous Blackburne Shilling Gambit. The name of this variation in the Italian Game is utter nonsense do to the fact that Blackburne never played this line and it is not a gambit because white cannot take the pawn on e5 without losing material. Despite the terrible nomenclature, every student of chess should know this game. Continue reading “1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nd4”
The Most Violent Chess Game Ever Played!
This fantastic game from 1880 is perhaps the most violent chess game ever played. [Event “Jerome Gambit”] [Site “England”] [Date “1880.??.??”] [EventDate “?”] [Round “?”] [Result “0-1”] [White “NN”] [Black “Joseph Henry Blackburne”] [ECO “C50”] [WhiteElo “?”] [BlackElo “?”] [PlyCount “28”] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ {Note – d4 alsoContinue reading “The Most Violent Chess Game Ever Played!”