Today’s winning chess move involves a way to collect your opponent’s queen on just the fifth move! Unfortunately, you are not likely to find an opponent falling for this famous trap in the Damiano Variation of Petrov’s Defense. Still, as the great California chess ambassador George Koltanowski shows us, it’s an opening trap worth knowing.ContinueContinue reading “Winning Chess Moves: Koltanowski vs Diller, San Francisco, 1960”
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Carlsen vs. Nepomniachtchi: World Championship – Game 11
Carlsen vs. Nepomniachtchi: World Championship – Game 10
Carlsen vs. Nepomniachtchi: World Championship – Game 9
Carlsen vs. Nepomniachtchi: World Championship – Game 8
Carlsen vs. Nepomniachtchi: World Championship – Game 7
Carlsen vs. Nepomniachtchi: World Championship – Game 6
Carlsen vs. Nepomniachtchi: World Championship – Game 5
Carlsen vs. Nepomniachtchi: World Championship – Game 4
World Chess Championship 2013: Preview 2 of the Anand-Carlsen Match
In our first preview game to the 2013 World Chess Championship, we studied a game where a young Magnus Carlsen demolishes his opponent. In preview two to the World Chess Championship Match between Anand and Carlsen, we will examine a game where our current World Chess Champion destroys Vassily Ivanchuk with style. [Event “It”]ContinueContinue reading “World Chess Championship 2013: Preview 2 of the Anand-Carlsen Match”
Its Deja Vu Mr. Petroff
In French the phrase Deja Vu means “already seen.” Not only have I already posted an article on my clever new system against the Nimzowitsch Attack in the Petroff Defense, I did so in my last post. However, the real reason for a sense of Deja Vu is that I played this game following a chess lessonContinueContinue reading “Its Deja Vu Mr. Petroff”
5 Days Until the 2008 World Chess Championships in Bonn, Germany
Anand and Kramnik both enjoy playing the Petroff Defense(1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6) and I would be very surprised not to see it used in their 2008 World Championship Chess Match. Both players know the theory very well in this opening, so any game they play could lead to new ideas for the worldContinueContinue reading “5 Days Until the 2008 World Chess Championships in Bonn, Germany”