The upcoming World Chess Championship between Ding Liren and Gukesh will be much more than just a title match. It will be a clash between two players who represent opposite extremes: experience and youth, fulfilled achievement and dreams yet to be...
This year, I am participating for the second time in the "2024 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship" following my previous involvement in 2018. The first round has been "easy", and in almost all the games I found myself in a favorable position ear...
This post is dedicated to Salo Flohr, one of the great chess masters of the 20th century, who unfortunately remains relatively unknown. We will delve into his life, his chess career, and analyze some of his most memorable games, admiring the quali...
In this post I am going to explain what strategy is to beginner players, who already know how to play, start to make fewer tactical errors, but find that they do not know what to do in the middle game, or when something strange is played in the op...
The Sack of Rome is the name that was given to Zsofia Polgar's (Zsófia Polgár) achievement in the 1989 Rome tournament, in which she made a performance of 2900 points of elo rating, with 8.5 points out of 9, With only 14 ye...
In this post we are going to talk about hippopotamus. You know them, right? They may seem like friendly animals but in reality they are aggressive, and cause the death of hundreds of people every year (more than wolves, lions, sharks ...), being o...
A chess player needs to train seven fundamental skills. There are: Visualization, Calculation, Tactics, Evaluation, Strategy, Openings and Endgames. One of the most important skills for a chess player is visualization. What is visualization in c...
In this blog we will study the typical sacrifice on e6 in the opening. It's very common when opponent's king hasn't castled and e6 pawn is not defended by pieces (usually because a knight is on d7.) The point of sacrificing a piece on e6 i...
Aronian is one of the great players of our time, well known and with many fans who love their dynamic games. This is one of his best games, and in it he sacrifices a piece in the opening to achieve a position of absolute dominance in which he pl...
The Bishop pair is a powerful weapon in the hands of those who know how to use it. A few months ago I ran across a game that is perfect for explaining how to use that weapon. I analyzed the game, and I want to share it with you...
In today's post I'd like to share with you a chess rule the Spanish IM Michael Rahal is using on his YouTube channel to help determine whether a sacrifice will work or not. The rule says: "Sacrifice is feasible if the number of pieces attackin...
