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Features
 Daily
Chess News Links
November 20, 2009
Keep up-to-date with the latest chess news from around the
world with our daily chess news links.
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 Book
Review
November 18, 2009
ChessBase Magazine #132 Edited by Rainer Knaak
These days CBM comes with nearly three Gigabytes
of high-quality content and a twenty-four page sophisticatedly designed booklet.
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 The
Skittles Room
November 11, 2009
Chess Strategy for Club Players by Herman Grooten
Even for more experienced players, finding a good plan once
the opening phase is concluded is not easy.
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 Endgame
Study #669
November 14, 2009
D. Gurgenidze, 1970
Combining beauty and practicality, the Endgame Study is one
of the unique and subtle wonders of the Royal Game.
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 From
the Archives
November 20, 2009
Vasily Smyslov: Endgame Virtuoso by Vasily Smyslov
A knowledge of the endgame is the magic key to the secrets
of chess mastery.
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 Video
Spotlight
November 18, 2009
Kasparov-Karpov, Seville (5), 1987
Today's video features footage from Game 5 of the Kasparov-Karpov
world championship match in Seville.
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Step by Step: Tactics
November 18, 2009
Step by Step: Tactics is designed to improve your basic tactical skills
and can be used as a workbook exercise in a classroom
setting.
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 Endgame
Corner
by Karsten Müller
November 18, 2009
Exchanging into a pawn ending is almost always a tricky
business, so one should be absolutely sure about the final
result.
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 Novice
Nook
by Dan Heisman
November 18, 2009
Basic tactic skills should be used to prevent an opponent’s
tactics, not to find winning tactics for oneself.
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 An
Arbiter's Notebook
by Geurt Gijssen
November 18, 2009
I find it most intriguing that my opponent had a lost
position, his flag had fallen first, and yet he wins the
game.
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 ChessBase Cafe
by Louis Lima
November 18, 2009
How much thought goes into deciding on the amount of verbal
commentary and variations to present in a Fritz Trainer?
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 ChessOK
Cafe
by Dadi Jonsson
November 14, 2009
Rybka Aquarium 2010 will soon be released; one of the
biggest changes is the greatly improved Interactive Deep
Analysis.
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 Chess Mazes
by Bruce Alberston
November 14, 2009
The undefended black rook provides the motive for white’s first three
moves. After that the bishop has to contrive to reach the
checking square.
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 The
Instructor
by Mark Dvoretsky
November 11, 2009
Especially valuable, to my taste, are notes that reproduce
the logic of a grandmaster's search for the correct plan in
a complex situation.
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 Middlegame
Motifs
by Nigel Davies
November 11, 2009
It's sometimes difficult to believe that this crude plan
could possibly work, let alone be utterly deadly. But work
it does.
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 The
Kibitzer
by Tim Harding
November 11, 2009
Around this time of the year I usually review books, since
this is a popular time for buying them.
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 Scholastic
Chess
by Steve Goldberg
November 11, 2009
The remarkable U.S. Chess School recently celebrated a
special event – the first all-girl U.S. Chess School camp.
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 Inside
Chess
by Yasser Seirawan
November 7, 2009
Yasser continues his coverage of the 1987 United States
Championship, from the second issue of Inside Chess
1988/02.
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 The Openings Explained
by Abby Marshall
November 4, 2009
To those who know that I love the King's Gambit, it may seem that I must push the f-pawn no matter what
opening I play.
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 Checkpoint
by Carsten Hansen
November 4, 2009
I had just tallied the number of works that I reviewed on
the Sicilian Defense to be more than seventy. Now I can add
another four titles to the count.
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 Opening
Lanes
by Gary Lane
November 4, 2009
If you want to be a pioneer, then delve into the past to
come up with something that can be improved for modern
times.
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 Past
Pieces
by Olimpiu G. Urcan
October 31, 2009
If Arnold Schottländer's livelihood had depended on him
winning top prizes in chess tournaments, he would have most
certainly led a meager existence.
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 Dutch
Treat
by Hans Ree
October 28, 2009
Levon Aronian is a man inclined to irony, but even for him
taking up the Wohly against the world’s top players would be
driving irony to an unseemly extreme.
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 The
Q & A Way
by Bruce Pandolfini
October 28, 2009
It used to be that 2245 was considered a decent rating.
Times apparently have changed. Maybe it is time to lighten
up a bit and have fun.
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 Over
the Horizons
by Stefan Bücker
October 28, 2009
One of Stefan Bücker's favorite weapons against the King’s
Pawn opening, Balogh’s Defense, comes with an extra bonus
for those who play the Dutch.
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 Informant@ChessCafe.com
October 24, 2009
Chess Informant is pleased to announce the forthcoming
publication of a third edition of the Small
Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings at the beginning of
2010.
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