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
A time travel in chess history lands in 1892, where two titans are facing each other in an epic match!
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.
Chess Imbalances can be a game changer for some. But how to learn about them? Here a young titled player teaching us all about them!
Playing styles in chess are an important topic. GM Mueller and Engel show us a model based on 4 type of players, which we can eventually begin to use to prepare for our tournament opponents.
Listening FM Giannatos saying it’s important to read books with game collections, it made me think that today, thanks to technology, the chess improvement of an average player like me changed a lot. We can have a game collection with many annotated games every 2 months! How? Just getting the latest issue of Chessbase Magazine. A wealth of games coming from different tournaments, with different time controls, teaching us the latest ideas in terms of opening theory, as well as strategic maneuvers, or very important endgames one should know in order to convert a material advantage into a win.
A long time ago, before COVID hit the world, I had the chance to talk to GM Alexander Ipatov and ask him how he became the strong player he is today. In this interview we can discover more on the genesis of a top grandmaster. How many hours a day he was studying when he
I think the Devil really exist… I was looking for material for creating my own repertoire against 1.e4 using 1…e5 as answer. In fact I wrote another article about it. Then I go to the Chessbase site to check if there was something new, and I don’t know how it happened, instead of going on
Who is the best chess player of all time? Often such question generates endless debates in internet chess forum and involves the names of: Fischer, Kasparov, Carlsen and Karpov… Strangely none of them, also if they are truly great players, would be able to withstand a freeware like Stockfish set at few seconds per move,
The 14th Czechoslovak Championship
When chess games and the history of a chess set come all together – By Holger Langer and Davide Nastasio This is a rare Czech tournament chess set similar to the ones used in the 14th Czechoslovak Championship which was held at Poděbrady from July 5-26, 1936. The tournament was organized as an international event,
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