White to play and win queen
White to win queen
The Favorite Game of Frederick Yates
Frederick Yates (1884-1932) was the British Chess Champion six times. Sandor Takacs (1893-1932) was a Hungarian master. These two players met twice in Kecskemet 1927. That tournament began with two sections, A and B, each with ten players. They we...
My "Opera" mate
Here is the recent online correspondence game, played mostly “real-time”. After 14. f4 I looked at the different ways of saving the bishop, didn’t like h6, etc.. and decided to sacrifice a pawn by playing 14. … Be4. I saw that I have a c...
Pawn Offer in Middlegame - A Weapon of World Champions
100 years ago in Duesseldorf/Germany took place the World Championship between Germans Lasker and Tarrasch. In the second game Tarrasch came out of the opening and early middlegame with a superior position. So Lasker tried to confuse him a littl...
development vs material
this is what happens if you go for material and not developing
Ending with a knight-mare
I playing the french defense continuosly
knight-rook checks crushingly
This game was one of my game during our intramurals, playing the Ruy Lopez opening. I hope u'll like it
amazing shot
This is a game I played today and i was amazed to see the Bxe7.You can take a look
An interesting Ruy Lopez
Here is an interesting Ruy Lopez i played against a 1780 guy. I would love to here your suggestions, comments and critisicm!
its an exibition....
this was my position in our intrums...just try to look at it...his last move was ...Nxd4??
A miraculous recovery
Like most chessplayers, sometimes I screw up badly in the opening. In the game that follows, I was playing at the NY Open in front of my friends and colleagues, and was embarrassed to fall into a simpe opening trap. I was too shocked to resign, so...
Obsession with the f-file
In this game an obsession with the f-file, and especially f7, pays off well. Of all my games, this is the one that has been most discussed, and it was featured in Chess Informant. The play is of course far from perfect, but it illustrates th...
Advanced Rook Technique
In this article I present three magnificent examples of advanced rook play. As John Watson pointed out in his brilliant Secrets of Chess Strategy, use of rooks has evolved considerably, and Karpov demonstrates this perfectly in his game against Ho...
Variety of Themes
In the short space of 37 moves, this game offers insight into many chess ideas, such as the power of the two bishops and the march of the passed pawns.
The Aggressive Middlegame King
Many times in medieval history, in the midst of battle, a king enters the fray to rally his troops and win a victory against a difficult opponent. In chess, can the king function in this role? Of course, in the endgame, the king has to be agg...
Emanuel Lasker: The 3 motifs of a combination.
Many consider Emanuel Lasker to be the greatest chess player in modern times. Certainly no man has held the world championship longer - 28 years or kept his powers so long. In Lasker's "Manual of Chess" He reveals his vast knowledge....
Minority attack
In my last article, I discussed a pawn formation a knight manuever which locked up the queenside. Why would you want to do such a thing? The answer, in that position, lied in black's plan of a minority attack. A minority atta...
The b4, Nb3-c5 maneuver in the exchange caro-kann
Today I'd like to discuss a maneuver I do often in my caro-kann chess games. It takes place in the exchange variation of the caro-kann. I learned of this maneuver when talking to some random person on a chess server many years ago....
Attacking on the e-file
Sometimes your opponent doesn't castle. How do you take advantage? A typical plan is to attack on the e-file, and these are some wonderful annotated examples. We can't all attack like Steinitz, but if we're ...
Piece Activity II
It's time for another example of piece activity and development. If there is anything we can learn from the masters, it is their ability to place a greater emphasis on major pieces over pawns. We move the clock up a bit from Morphy's day t...
Piece Activity
One of the many ways to study chess is to learn from the masters. Lets begin with a classic from 1858 where a lead in development allows white to bring the house down on black well before he ever gets all his pieces into play.
The Middlegame - What to Do
After you played your opening, from memory or from good sound principles (control the center, develop you pieces, protect your king), now what? Now you are in the middlegame. Most players don't make it to the endgame, or if they did, they have...