Dear parents and coaches, I got the following question from Amy, a chess mom in Ohio: “I have heard about doubled pawns. What are they, and why are the…
What are they, and why are they bad?” Nice question.
In my last blog I talked about getting invited to a Chess Camp in which Garry Kasparov would be teaching. Meeting Garry Kasparov or the “Michael …
Going there wasn’t too bad
Sometimes Caro Kann, and Sometimes Caro Can’t…by Mrs Jessica E Prescott (aka BoundingOwl) Howdy y’all! Today we are going to look at a game that was …
That Tartakower was a bad player? Nope!
Too bad for Kasparov he couldn’t play the whole match like he did this first game
Who is the best chess player ever? What is the best game ever played? These are hard questions to answer, and nobody really knows the truth, because it …
His game against Veselin Topalov from Bulgaria (who wasn’t a bad player himself and
(This article is honor of National Chess Day and Bullying Prevention Month in October) 1. Chess teaches resilience; this is the ability to cope with a…
chess, you must be able to recognize when you need to get your pieces out of a bad
I have been thinking a lot about the casualties of chess this week; maybe because I just toured sites from the Revolutionary War period, maybe because one of…
problems getting his last GM norm too and when he finally got it, he went through a bad
Hi! Last week we saw some make-believe positions, which were created by chess
It would seem that White had to play pretty bad to get almost all of his pieces taken
Professor: Happy day before Saturday, class. Zephyr: I wanted to bring something up. Professor: I’m fine. How are you? You couldn’t wait to say
Idris: But they don’t have to be bad. Ryan: Right. They may help in the attack.
Today, I am focusing on an area of chess that is extremely important not only for chess players but for chess coaches. In the last couple of months, a…
In chess, while drawing is sometimes inevitable, it can quickly turn into a bad habit
