Saving the best for the last is a popular saying. The sixth edition of the Prague International Chess Festival awarded best-game prizes for each round. There was also a prize for the most spectacular game of the tournament named Lubomír Kaválek Prize.
When we start to play, each player has up to 16 different pawn moves. And if we take into account the movement of the knights, there are 4 more moves, that is, a total of 20 moves and only for the first move. Every chessmaster was once a beginner. Irving Chernev. So, how can we...
Studying openings is one of the most popular activities among chess players. It is reasonable: if you are good at openings, you get a head-start for the middlegames or even endgames. The first stage of the game is also the most predictable one. You can cook certain lines or traps at ...
As black always goes second in chess, its player has to account for the white piece already played when choosing their first move. One of the most common responses is 1. c5, which sets up a chess opening known as The Sicilian Defense (more on this later). Best chess openings Here are ...
Siegbert Tarrasch was one of the world’s best chess players in the early 1890s. He had a “+3” score against Wilhelm World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz but never faced him in the Match because of Tarrasch’s full-time job as a doctor. Tarrasch was an influential contributor to opening ...
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Duda now thought for a few minutes, and resigned! Justifiably so. The computer suggests 18...Qd2 18 Rd1 Qxd3+ as Black's best option, but that would obviously win trivially for White. At first it might seem surprising things are that bad for Black, but White has the threat of 19....
Jose Capablanca was a phenomenon who burst onto the chess world and took top prize in the first ever elite tournament in which he participated. This was at San Sebastian - otherwise known as Donostia - in the Basque country of Spain in 1911. Capablanca's style was serene - no position see...
Topalov’s first move was accompanied by a protest letter, which becomes a tradition in Elista. This time his manager brought to our attention percentages of Kramnik’s moves coinciding with the main line of Fritz9. Curiously, the highest number – 87% – was registered in the second game,...
I had the black pieces, meaning that Carlsen went first. He opened with d4, moving his queen’s pawn forward two squares. I did the same. He then moved a pawn to c4, employing what’s called the queen’s gambit. White seemingly offers a free pawn to black...