As far as we see it, there are two very good things about studying an opening like the King's Gambit. One, you can dig up some games which are as old as the Mona Lisa portrait and you can understand how chess has evolved from a 'Direct Attacking'...
Welcome back to the continuation of our study of the latest developments in the Queen's Indian defense pawn sacrifice variation. Last week we saw white bulldozing his way through black's defenses with this newly found pawn sacrifice idea. Now it i...
We will continue our discussion of the English opening this week. We had left off last week with a beautiful game from Anatoly Karpov in the World Championship match (Game 2) against Gary Kasparov in the year 1987. So today we will begin with the ...
Every player has a unique playing style and that should play a huge role in their opening choice. Notice that we use the word "should" here, since we have personally seen many players getting into trouble with wrong opening choices. The opening we...
We will continue our study of the IQP in the Panov-Botvinnik attack. We had given the main ideas related to the IQP pawn structure in last week's article, so we will get right to business this time with the games. The next game is a beautiful mi...
As we had mentioned last week, today we will be taking a look into the Panov-Botvinnik attack against the Caro-Kann defense. We will discuss some of the important positions and the different main variations of the opening like the previous week. W...
This week we will be studying the Nimzo Indian defense. This opening was introduced by Grand Master Aron Nimzowitsch who can be called the Father of the so-called "hypermodern" chess era existing today. He has been one of the most influential writ...
It was nice to read your overwhelming responses to last week's Najdorf article. We could see plenty of opening requests, however we are writing only one article a week, and we will try to cover all our readers' interests eventually. Also having se...
