By Matthew Grinberg, Founder of Alamogordo Chess Club Here is a collection of short wins by World Champions: Lasker, Emanuel – Tarrasch, Siegbert Exhibition Match, Round 6 Berlin, Germany, 1916 1:0 Siegbert Tarrasch was one of Emanuel Lasker‘s chief rivals for the World Chess Championship. When Steinitz was still World Champion and Tarrasch his chief rival, …
By Matthew Grinberg, Founder of Alamogordo Chess Club Here is a sampling of famous people who played or influenced chess: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) – The American founding father and Renaissance man was also an avid chess player. He is the first American known to have written a book on chess. “Morals on Chess” was published posthumously …
By Premier Chess CEO National Master Evan Rabin There are many great opening, middle game and endgame books out there; see some of my favorite ones here. However, not many books cover practical elements of the game, related to mindset, game preparation, psychology, etc. Here are ten principles that you likely would not find in …
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By Matthew Grinberg, Founder of Alamogordo Chess Club This week we finish up with World Chess Champions Gary Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen. Deep Blue (computer) – Kasparov, Gary, 1:0, 1997 Caro-Kann Defense Perhaps it is unfair to include this game in this series since Kasparov’s opponent was a computer. But make …
By Dana Ponsky, Founder of Dana Ponsky Consulting Service LLC “The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to …
