The Candidates: An Unsolved Chess Puzzle
12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov, who turns 70 this May, made a lucky first move on behalf of Caruana. Image courtesy of Lennart Ootes from »
Twelve Fun Ways of Solving Chess Tactics
Are you as happy about your tactics as Magnus is on this image? What was the saying once again? “Solving tactics every day keeps the blunders »
Dealing with Anger During a Chess Tournament
Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Yoda Let’s continue discussing practical »
Your rating progress
Chess players are obsessed with ratings these days, even though, because of the COVID pandemic, there is an understandable shift from comparing FIDE Elos to boasting »
How to make the most out of your chess coaching
Future World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen and his coach GM Simen Agdestein in 2005 People resort to chess coaching for different reasons. For some of us, »