Chess is a competitive game and those who play it like to win. But it’s not always so easy when your opponent is hell-bent on winning too. If you want to win more games, more tournaments, more prizes and perhaps […]
The 6 Types of Chess Player – Which one are you?
Yuri Averbakh, Russian GM, author, endgame expert and currently the world’s oldest living GM at 93 (!), revealed in a 1997 interview in New in Chess that he placed chess players into 6 categories. Here they are with his description […]
Chess Tactic #449: Capablanca – Fonaroff
White to play.
Chess Tactic #448: Capablanca – Raubitschek
White to play.
Endgame Study 73: Capablanca – Conde
White to play and win. (Answer ↓↓↓) (Answer ↓↓↓) There are many ways to win but all involve the theme of pawn breakthroughs (see our article on King & Pawn Endgames) and 2 […]
Capablanca Interview 1925: Chess as Art
(This interview was published in New York World, 25 October 1925.) ‘Chess is not merely a game nor a mental training, but a social attainment, in the opinion of José Raúl Capablanca of Cuba, the world’s chess champion, who stopped off […]
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played – Chernev
Publisher: Batsford £15.99/$23.95 312 pages ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ First published in 1965, Irving Chernev’s book has become a classic in the field of annotated games. Now Batsford bring us an […]