By Maryalice Aymong, NYC Educator and Tutor What skills and traits come to mind when you think of the people who make top notch chess players? Probably some combination of the following: problem solving ability, confidence, commitment to practice, learning from mistakes, strategic thinking, and of course, good sportsmanship and awareness of others. The best chess players don’t …
By NM Evan Rabin, CEO of Premier Chess 3 Questions to Always Ask when Your Opponent Makes a Move Would you ever cross the street with out looking both ways? Would you ever make a business decision without considering what your competitors are doing? The answer to both questions is likely “no”, or at least …
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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 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 …
By Matthew Grinberg, Founder of Alamogordo Chess Club This week we feature World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, and Anatoly Karpov. Korchnoi, Victor – Spassky, Boris, 1:0, 1948 Sicilian Defense, Dragon Variation This game was played in the semi-final of the USSR championship in 1948. Spassky was a 14 year old wunderkind destined to win …
In my 18 (the number that equates to “life in Judaism) years of teaching chess (so far), I have seen beginner and intermediate students make a lot of the same mistakes. Here are ten of the mistakes I often find myself speaking to students rated U-1800, when reviewing their games and playing against them: 1) …
By Olga Inglis, Director of Business Development These were my favorite quotes from Tim Crother’s Queen of Katwe book. “Survival in Katwe depends on courage and determination as well as guile and luck.” (page 18) “Katwe’s youth endure an overwhelming stigma, a sense of defeat, and a resignation that they’ll never do any better than …
By Matthew Grinberg, Founder of Alamogordo Chess Club Two Weeks ago I presented the shortest loss ever by a World Chess Champion – a six mover by Anand. That got me to thinking, why not present the shortest loss ever by each of the sixteen World Champions? So I have selected 16 games from all World …
