Trial by Tactics is our member-only Daily Chess Puzzle. Members enjoy access to all archived content, including thousands of PDFs and hundreds of Ebooks - all free! To join: make a $25 (or more) tax deductible donation to ChessEdu.org and we will send your log in details for one-year access. (It may take up to 72 hours to receive your log in.) In Trial by Tactics you are shown the position just before the tactic occurs and then asked to visualize the winning sequence. Thereby emulating a real game scenario. These puzzles can also be used as test questions in conjunction with the ChessEdu.org curriculum. A new puzzle is posted daily. Your daily chess quiz! [FEN … [Read more...]
A Nice Win by Nakamura
This month we present a lightly edited excerpt from Chess Evolution Top GM Secrets Newsletter #164. Top GM Secrets is released every Friday of the week. The newsletter contains twenty-plus pages of great chess material written by top grandmasters Arkadij Naiditsch and Csaba Balogh, along with theoretical articles by GM Alexander Khalifman, puzzles, endgames, and more.A Nice Win by NakamuraBy Csaba BaloghTroff,Kayden W (2532) - Nakamura,Hikaru (2798)ch-USA 2015 Saint Louis USA (8.1), 09.04.2015Modern Benoni [A62]Nakamura has convincingly won the U.S. Championship. Let's examine one of his victories. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nc3 g6 [FEN … [Read more...]
A Happy End For Both Players
This month we present a lightly edited excerpt from the Chess Evolution Newsletter #159. Top GM Secrets is released every Friday of the week. The newsletter contains twenty-plus pages of great chess material written by top grandmasters Arkadij Naiditsch and Csaba Balogh, along with theoretical articles by GM Alexander Khalifman, puzzles, endgames, and more. A Happy End For Both Players By Arkadij Naiditsch Bartel,Mateusz (2631) - Nepomniachtchi,Ian (2714) 16th ch-EUR Indiv 2015 Jerusalem ISR (11.3), 08.03.2015 Sicilian Moscow Variation [B51] We are in the last round of the ECC and both players are on a score of +4, which is enough to qualify for the World Cup, but knowing Bartel … [Read more...]
Clash of the Titans: Fischer-Weinstein
This month we present a lightly edited excerpt from Chess Evolution Newsletter #150. CEWN is released every Friday of the week, the newsletter contains twenty-plus pages of great chess material written by top grandmasters Arkadij Naiditsch and Csaba Balogh. Clash of the Titans: Fischer-Weinstein by Kamil Miton Fischer,Robert James - Weinstein,Raymond Allen USA-ch New York (1), 18.12.1960 French Defense [C19] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Ne7 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 7.a4!? In general this move is very useful but in this concrete position White usually plays other moves: 7.Qg4 0-0 (7...Qc7 leads to very complex play after 8.Qxg7 Rg8 9.Qxh7 cxd4 10.Ne2 Nbc6 11.f4 Bd7 12.Qd3 … [Read more...]
Magnus Carlsen was Very, Very Lucky!
This month we present a lightly edited excerpt from Chess Evolution Newsletter #143. CEWN is released every Friday of the week, the newsletter contains twenty-plus pages of great chess material written by top grandmasters Arkadij Naiditsch and Csaba Balogh. Magnus Carlsen was Very, Very Lucky! by Arkadij Naiditsch Carlsen,Magnus (2863) - Anand,Viswanathan (2792) WCh 2014 Sochi RUS (6), 15.11.2014 Sicilian Kan [B41] We often hear people say that World Champions never blunder. In fact, World Champions blunder very rarely and even more rarely a one-move tactic. And what is even more rare is that after a blunder the opponent doesn't use the mistake, and this is precisely the case … [Read more...]