Book Review: The Perfect Pirc-Modern by Viktor Moskalenko 
Overview The Perfect Pirc-Modern is an ambitious, well-structured repertoire book by Grandmaster Viktor Moskalenko, focusing on two interrelated hypermodern defenses — the Pirc and the Modern. It’s designed for players who love complexity, counterpunching, and avoiding mainstream mainlines in favor of deep ideas and dynamic
For a western chess player stalemate is a kind of curse or blessing depending on which side one is. If he’s losing the game, clearly a blessing, if he’s winning the game a curse. In XiangQi stalemate is ruled as a win. Yet for a western chess player who’s learning XiangQi, to see the “stalemate
This article doesn’t want to be a substitute for reading the entire book of the rules as published by the World XiangQi Federation and approved also by the Chinese XiangQi Association. The same for the booklet published by the Asian XiangQi federation. Both these works are more comprehensive and treat the rules in a more
In China was possible to find Chinese chess players on the streets playing for little money, or showing a position, and one had to find the solution. Generally such positions were tricky to say the least. In 2007 there was a software which took this real life situation, and made it into a program everyone
What are the limits of our visualization? This is the first exercise my coach gave me, he showed me the board, asked me to memorize it, and then when I was ready he told me to walk with him. This is the position: Black move is probably not the best in this position, but it
The Houston XiangQi Association just published the most exciting news, they will organize the World XiangQi Championship in Houston this November!! Hence the need to begin to train seriously, since as shown in the title there are only 284 days to the event! As Capablanca told me long time ago, yeah I’m revealing my true
It’s exciting for me to see how my favorite training tool can be downloaded in less than 3 minutes!! 3 GB of intense chess training on my HD and ready to go on a Saturday morning I don’t have to go to work, and I can finsally enjoy every drop of chess wisdom given to
Few years back Jan Timman, one of the top 10 chess players in that time, published a book entitled: “the art of analysis.” Today we believe to know the truth about a position thanks to engines. But if engines were switched off, how would we evaluate a position? In fact Caruana, another top 10 player,
Thanks to my new Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV-4aAlTg-J2NTxEHzNWfNg) I’ve witnessed many interesting games between engines. The main problem is that while watching the game, I cannot stop and ask questions… So I created this article to share a position from the first game of a match between XieXiemaster running on an I7 12th generation and Chinese
The chess world has long been shrouded in mystery and intrigue. From the untimely deaths of chess masters like Alekhine and Morphy, to strange game and match results, there are many enigmas that have puzzled chess enthusiasts for centuries. It’s almost as if the game itself is imbued with a sense of mystery, as if