thereby giving you more chances to beat weaker players. I would strongly suggest reading the relevant chapters in pawn structure chess by andy soltis before you start anything on openings, since it will prepare you to understand whats really going on in whatever type of opening you will be...
Let’s look at them systematically. A random move with the black rook (1...Rb6~) doesn’t create any apparent weakness, and White is unable to deliver mate afterwards. After a random move with the black bishop (1...Ba4~) White has 2.Qa1#. A random move with the black knight (1...
The Belt and Road Hunan Open 2019 in China, held from July 29th to August 6th, was one of the strongest chess opens on the 2019 calendar. The one thing that made this tournament absolutely unique was the prize fund. The first prize was a whopping USD $50,000. Just to put things ...
Poland has had a fantastic tournament. They played so amazingly that out of the eleven rounds they fought against the top eight seeds! They beat the USA and Russia! But the Olympiad is not a place where you can bank on the results of the past rounds. The Polish team had to overcome a...