There are many young players out there, and many that have dreams of becoming GMs and maybe even one of the top in the world someday. I am definitely o…
tournaments including getting my second Norm, but I had balanced those out with some bad
My coach Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan told me that the tournament I just played in (The Berkeley International) was my second real tournament—otherwise …
I got 4.5 out of 10 which is not too bad considering the strength of the tournament
Few people (that know what they are talking about) would argue that having the white pieces in a chess game is considered an advantage… and I agreed w…
At first I thought I had really gotten a bad draw having to play the highest rated
of your pieces are on one side of the board, and you castle on the other, only bad
Decoys lure an opposing piece to a bad square that allows you to play a winning tactic
This article is by WIM Alexey Root Do you want to see the future of your chess opening? Then use this Crystal Ball trick: Imagine your position with just you…
If you have a bad pawn structure, you may have to win with your pieces in the middlegame
In my last article I described in detail how I qualified for the first ever 2013 National Girls Invitational in Wisconsin. I also shared what I learned, howe…
I scored 3.5 of 9 – not bad for a 14-year old teen.
After more than six weeks of competition, the ChessKid/Judit Polgar Guinness World Record Tournament ended Saturday with an exciting two-hour final event, st…
But don’t feel bad for Carissa — a few days after the Guinness Finals she became
Kids playing chess, Titles, Titled players, Shreyas Royal, London Chess Classic.
he began to make some bad moves and I managed to calculate a very nice win despite
This article is by WIM Alexey Root Previously we learned the values of the bishop, rook, and queen. Just as for those three pieces, the values of the kn…
In the bishop, rook, and queen article, we saw that a bishop is a bad bishop when
