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Hilarious Chess Exam!

FM Geborgenheit | a hace 5 horas | W 187 | c 8
Hello & Namaste! Get ready to become a student again and take this hilarious chess exam! A few years back, I
prepared a set of questions for my students to make it funny. You can post the answers in the comments  I'm
really exci...

Miguel Najdorf: An Unsung Hero, (Part 2)

kamalakanta | a hace 7 horas | W 158 | c 3
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Dear chess lovers, in this second blog post about Najdorf we present you with their first meeting, at Groningen,
1946. This game was won by Najdorf, and there is a story attached to it. "This is Najdorf's very famous win
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Standard #44: The Face Off (2nd chance against my old coach!)
MidnasLament | a hace 16 horas | W 314 | c 5
Hi, Stacia here!   This week I played my first round of the Parma Championships at the Parma Chess Club, a
series of G90 games, one per week for 7 weeks.  I thought I would share this USCF rated tournament game
because it was my second...
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IM MatBobula | a hace 17 horas | W 418 | c 4
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Every '1.d4 player' faces Queens Gambit Declined very often. This is probably the most common opening after
1.d4 among players in the rating range  between 1000-2000. If you are bored playing popular lines with the
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More Quick Puzzles

GM Illingworth | a hace 1 día | W 576 | c 2
Hello everyone! I have been busy lately, so here are a few more puzzles to keep you tactically sharp for your
games Puzzle #1 Puzzle #2 Were the first two puzzles too easy? Then here is a tougher one ...
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Seven Simple Chess Habits for Better Performance

FM Geborgenheit | a hace 1 día | W 878 | c 8
Hello & Namaste!Continuing the series on the lists, today I'm going to share 7 simple habits for elevating your
chess performance. You can start small and pick whichever seems doable and eventually instill all the seven for
your next even...
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Chess For Pandas | Chapter 1 | Chess Fiction

FM Geborgenheit | a hace 1 día | W 356 | c 13
This is an experiment and I would like to see how far it goes. Welcome to this adventure! 1. The Pandas of
Lagavi are finding it hard to live under the rule of Zingados - a two-headed creature community. It is that time
of the year where re...
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GM Illingworth | a hace 2 días | W 626 | c 7
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Fischer vs Greenblatt: History Of Computer Chess Video

IM DanielRensch | a hace 2 días | W 1.260 | c 7
For the second video in my new series on the history of computers in chess, I covered one of the most famous
examples of human dominance over the early versions of Chess AI.  Bobby Fischer's legendary victory over the
machine known as "Gree...
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Learn the Evans Gambit!

NM BlakeyBChess | a hace 2 días | W 404 | c 1
We're continuing on with the ChessPathways.com "Openings" series today with a video on the Evans Gambit.
This Romantic-era chess opening originated hundreds of years ago, but retains its popularity today. Kasparov
even famously used it to take d...
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Seven Tips On Preparing For A Tournament!
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Hello & Namaste! I'm sharing some of the tips extracted from my experience in chess life. What if you had
seven days to prepare for a tournament? I think you could make the most of the time you have before a
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Firouzja's Super Knight Sacrifice

GM Illingworth | a hace 3 días | W 2.338 | c 6
Which move was the highlight of the 2019 FIDE World Cup thus far?  There are quite a few candidates, but
many are already saying that Firouzja's 37th move, in his Round 2 World Cup game against 2018 World Rapid
Champion Dubov, is the...
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What's White's best move?
Zeitnot17 | a hace 3 días | W 645 | c 8
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Try to solve this Pawns Endgame (+ Video)

FM michechess89 | a hace 3 días | W 458 | c 1
Hello people who love a game invented in India. As you already know, one of my favorite topics is chess
endgames. Today we are analyzing an interesting position I found in a book written by one of the bests: Mark
Dvoretsky. The name of the book is...
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Scottish Championship 2019 (Part 2)

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Hi All, Hope you have had a fantastic weekend and so here comes the continuation of my blog series on
Scottish Championships 2019. (You can find Part 1 here) So after the first 3 rounds I was standing at 2.5 points
out of 3, which is not...

World Cup 2019 Rd 2: Giri beats Najer in Armageddon, Nisipeanu knocks out Hikaru
IM vinniethepooh | a hace 4 días | W 762 | c 1
Round 2 of the World Cup 2019 saw an Armageddon, an endgame with five knights, and Hikaru Nakamura
going down in flames against Nisipeanu. This round featured very few upsets, but a couple of thrilling matches
which went down to the wire. The to...
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Whose Doubled Pawns are Better?
GM Illingworth | a hace 4 días | W 731 | c 3
Hello chess friends! How do you determine whether doubled pawns are a strength or a weakness?  It is not so
often that you see a position where both sides have doubled pawns, but that's what happened in the game I've
annotated for tod...

Tactical Tests from the World Cup Rd 2

FM Geborgenheit | a hace 4 días | W 513 | c 6
Chess is 99% Tactics - Richard TeichmannIn the last segment, I shared 18 exercises from the World Cup Rd1.
Today, I'm back with ten exercises from tiebreaks + Round 2. A few readers asked me if I could get the
interactive diagrams so that they cou...
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Your Fish Just Isn't That Good: What is StockfishDev?

the_real_greco | a hace 4 días | W 880 | c 2
Hello everyone! This is less a post and more a collection of fun links.  The Stockfish project usually releases a
new version (Stockfish 8, 9, 10) after about 50 Elo of improvement. But in the meantime, there is constant
updating and patchi...

Standard #43: Burning in the Bertin Gambit

MidnasLament | a hace 4 días | W 522 | c 9
Hello, Stacia here!  I wanted to share an interesting 15/10 game I played on chess.com.  This game features a
wild line of the King's Gambit Accepted affectionately referred to as "The Wild Cunningham", but also know as
the Bertin Gambit...
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Mieses. The Brilliancy Prize Games, and Some Pictures.

simaginfan | a hace 4 días | W 517 | c 70
Afternoon everyone. To finish off the Mieses stuff, I have decided to put together the Brilliancy Prize winning
games of his that I know of, plus some nice pictures. A bit like it says in the title!!  (  I don't do clickbait!! )
Thes...

Bobby Fischer Crushes White In The King's Indian - Letelier vs. Fischer, 1970
NM SamCopeland | a hace 4 días | W 1.666 | c 8
Surely every chess player has a favorite game from Bobby Fischer. For most, it's probably Fischer's "Game of
the Century" against Byrne (Donald) or his "Game of the Century: Part II" against Byrne (Robert). For me, it's
Fischer's win as Black agai...
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