In Street Smart Chess, model players teach how to play against opponents of different strengths. The chapters do inevitably clash against each other. If one of the players want to create a tactical game and the other a boring game, both can’t succeed. The question is who manages best. A few days ago, David Navara […]
Street Smart Chess in action – Guest Post by GM Axel Smith Read Post »
Quality Chess has just published The Exhilarating Elephant Gambit. In that connection, Killer Chess Training is organizing an Elephant theme tournament on lichess on Sunday. It is open to all to join.
Elephant Theme Tournament – Killer Chess Training Read Post »
Our friend Renier returns with annotations of a recent game. You can see the game here or you can download it with this link. David Navara – Robert Ris European Club Cup 14.11.2019 Renier Castellanos Trust, but verify A common tradition in chess is to copy our colleagues whenever they play a new idea in
A Recurring Mistake by committed by Super-GMs Read Post »
Jorden van Foreest – Viswanathan AnandTata Steel Masters, 12.01.2019 With Sam Shankland playing in the elite Tata Steel event (and currently sitting on a respectable 2/4 with four draws), we can’t help but pay attention to some of the pivotal pawn moves being made in the tournament. When you see games at this level being
Pawn Play in Wijk aan Zee Read Post »
If you want to know your opening repertoire well, you need time to memorise it. Some of it will make a lot of sense and some of it will be concrete, but counter-intuitive. Sometimes a line a tempo down is no worse, for example. I just played a blitz game where I successfully remembered all
Remembering Playing 1.e4 Read Post »
Our friend and my compatriot Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen won a composition tournament in front of the two modern giants of chess competition, Afek and Pervakov. On request, he has written a small report for our blog, which I have decided to attach in a PDF. But I wanted to give the readers a chance to
There will be an informal, combined rapid/blitz match taking place this Sunday 6th August in Glasgow, starting just after 3pm and finishing at roughly 6pm. Six leading Scottish players (GM Jacob Aagaard, IM Andrew Greet, FM Alan Tate, FM Neil Berry, IM Steve Mannion and our newest FM and Scottish Champion, Murad Abdulla) will be
Fun chess in Glasgow on Sunday 6th August Read Post »
Congratulations to Quality Chess’s own IM Andrew Greet, who was first outright in the Dundee 150 international tournament. His 6/9 gained plenty of rating points, but was not quite enough for a GM norm. GM Colin McNab started well, but sadly faded to finish on 3/9. Full results here. Congratulations also to 16-year-old Murad Abdulla
Dundee 150 – Andrew wins Read Post »