FM Brewington Hardaway shares his experience as he receives his second IM norm at the 2023 Marshall Chess Club NYC Winter IM Norm Invitational!
To achieve an IM Norm, the opponents you play must have an average rating of 2230
This is a quick guide to a video series: This series starts out with material appropriate for beginners but over the course of 8 videos begins to delv…
The Fearsome Fork 5: Clash of Two Brothers – Now that the students have learned three
NM Brewington Hardaway (aka The BrewMaster) shares how he won the 2022 Barber Tournament! Check out this blog post for some clever tactics and a review of some of the top games Brew played in the competition.
I allowed black to win a pawn, because I will have lots of compensation with the
FM Tani Adewumi won his section at the 2022 New York Spring Invitational with 7.0/9. With it he earned his first IM norm, and got his rating over 2300. He now needs only two more norms and 100 rating points to become an international master.
Note that you have to use this knight.
By Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky Attacks and Defenses The Basics While checkmating the king is the ultimate goal in chess, it is hard to accomplish this unles…
All good players have the ability to keep their pawns and pieces protected.
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400 Year Old Gruesome Greco Game, Follow-up on the Fool’s…by, Ms Jessica Era Martin (aka BoundingOwl) In 1619, a man named Gioachino (pronounced
Black does have a plan, though.
Crushing the Castle: No Stone Left Unturned…by, Mrs Jessica Era Prescott (nee Martin) aka BoundingOwl Halloo! More castle crushing! Just….
In these positions, black will have pawns on g7 and h6.
Shhh…Something Smothers Still…by, Ms Jessica E. Martin (aka BoundingOwl) Last week we discussed (or I wrote you and you talked back into the computer pro…
Sometimes you have to think DIFFERENTLY when you are playing chess.
On Sunday, February 12 2023, ChessKid will feature a match between four top ChessKids and four adult chess streamers! Watch stars like FM Tani Adewumi and IM Shreyas Royal take on WFM Anna Cramling, IM Eric Rosen, and more!
On the ChessKid side, we’ll have FM Tani Adewumi, IM Shreyas Royal, FM Brewington
