Month: March 2010

This is blitz/speed game from the 2009 World Blitz Chess Championship between Women’s Female World Chess Champion Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk

Deflection is a very important tactic that comes up a lot in chess games. You should always look for

The Magnus Smith Trap is a common trap that you see in the Sicilian Defense (Fischer Variation). If black

The Decoy is one of the first things that a chess player should look for in a position. You

This is Mikhail Tal’s(The Magician from Riga) last chess game. It was a blitz game versus Garry Kasparov played in

This is a game analysis from a game held in Barcelona in 1929 between Jose Raul Capablanca (The Chess Machine)

The Latvian Gambit is one of the most aggressive gambits in chess and many top players find it quite dubious.