Author: NHaselton

We start a new series going over famous/common traps that you may come across in your chess career. You

The Bird’s Opening is the 6th most popular opening, although rarely played in comparison. White tries to focus on

The Benoni Defense is a very aggressive opening that white can play against white’s initial 1. d4. Against the

We are going to be running a contest for the next two weeks until July 1st. This is open

The skewer and pin can be one of the most powerful weapons that a chess player has but they are

We take a look at a blitz game I played today that I thought everyone could learn from. In

In this new series we take a look at some actual games and discuss my thought process during the game.

We take a look at the second part in our series of when to trade pieces in a chess game.

We continue our chess middle game strategies by looking at the art of trading and when a player should trade