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
In my opinion (accent on “mine”) this book is not really about a child who accomplished something amazing, and of course at the same time it is, because there are 42 annotated games, and it’s about chess. In my opinion this book is about “family,” this book is about “values” which have been lost in
This book is the story of the rivalry between Zukertort and Steinitz which culminated in the first World Championship. The book creates a complex portrait of these two personalities, and their rivalry through their writings, games, and fragments the author deems important.
At the end of his life, Kavalek started writing his memoirs. With humour, wit and passion, he put on paper the compelling story of his adventurous life and rich chess career.
Understanding the endgame is fundamental to playing good chess, and at its heart lie positions where just kings and pawns remain on the board. Even when a pawn ending is not actually reached, the players must often assess ones that could arise from an exchange of pieces. And an error calculating a pawn ending is normally fatal.
Questions of pawn-structure, and thus decisions made early in the game, can be fully understood only when we appreciate how they impact the possible pawn endings.
This book takes a practical angle, so is the perfect complement to Secrets of Pawn Endings, which examines their theory in detail. Experienced trainer Bogdanov examines a wealth of pawn endings where strong players made significant errors, and draws lessons and rules of thumb from them. While we are enjoying the entertaining material in this book, we are painlessly absorbing endgame principles and improving our intuitive decision-making skills. We learn how to calculate and identify key positional elements, and appreciate the beautiful tactics and paradoxical ideas that are unique to the world of pawns.
This new book on Fischer’s games is a collection of what GM Mueller considers the most instructive games played by Fischer. Thanks to new powerful engines the games have been checked and some errors were discovered in previous analyses. The publisher in my opinion well understand the new young chess players, thanks to the relationship
In a computer age, where most top players have obtained computer like skills, maybe could be important to renew the way world championship matches are played. Not only for getting the interest of new chess players, but also to define who is the strongest chess player in the world, through a series of time controls