Yes, in case you just came out of a cave after a long while, and didn’t know, the World Chess Championship is ongoing. This time without Magnus Carlsen on either side of the board, after he earlierrelinquishedhis title. See how the win by Ian Nepomniachtchi over Ding Liren unfolded ...
Post Tools One question which is of big interest to me if he covers the Grandelius recommendation. This can come about via different move orders, one being 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bf4 Bf5 4.f3 e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.h4 h5 7.g5 Nfd7 8.e3 Bb4! Incidentially3. ... Bf5is the ...
The arbiter Kaweh Kristof warned us if we came too close to the board and the distance between the players was less than one meter.Arbiter Kaweh Kristof had a close look on the required distance.In the first round this happened to everyone, sometimes even more than once. But in the end ...
The World Champion went for the Sveshnikov variation, which would not have been totally unexpected by the Caruana team and the challenger secured some advantage, both on the board and on the clock. But, as GM WESLEY SO and GM YANNICK PELLETIER explain, after a missed opportunity on his 24th...
I never studied this so I am not going to make any statements about the evaluation. I do play Bb4 against some Dutch setups but then white has normally played already the knight at c3. Anyway I think we do have to agree that the move-order plays a big role here in this discussion...
Mate on Board! Crush the French Rubinstein Variation How did an amateur-friendly line for Black end in carnage? Learn this line for White and win faster! View More Crush IM John Bartholomew's Scandinavian (...Qd8 lines) Play like Nakamura and put lots of pressure on the ...Qd8 Scandi...
Endgames can be classified according to the type of pieces that remain on board. Basic checkmates are positions in which one side has only a king and the other side has one or two pieces and can checkmate the opposing king, with the pieces working together with their king. For example, ...
from a1 to b4 or d2, from d2 to g1, g3, e5, c5, a3 and a1, and so on. As a Knight, U is not obstructed by pieces standing on passed squares. U - has moved like the Camel from Tamerlane Chess.The Cannon (Ca) moves differently when it moves to capture than when it moves...
At last on FICGS, you can playGo(围棋,바둑,囲碁,Cờ vây,Го) tournaments and world championship. Even if computers are now able to beat the very best human players from China & South Korea, its complexity still makes it one of the most interesting board games. Play this fascin...
“My long-term experience in playing the Caro-Kann Defence with Black has shown to me that his problems in this variation are not easy to solve at all. The variation we analyse in this book often leads to non-standard situations on the board, so I would recommend it to players who are...