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In the first part of this series, we looked at the unique attributes of Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide in comparison to other existing books on the subject of pawn...

How does an experienced player think and play after the opening? Does he come up with brand new plans and ideas for every game? An experienced player- a player with a Mas...

  gameviewer_mockup.jpg Sengupta, Deep (India) - Postny, Evgeny (Israel) 10th World Teams 2015.04.21 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3...

Welcome back! Thanks for joining me again in learning from the instructive fighting games of the American Champion Hikaru Nakamura.   Last week, we examined his ...

Hi current and future Chessity members! I am finally back this month to continue my series on recent tournament winners. Ofcourse there have been many events happening la...

Amidst the 2014 World Chess Championship that's currently taking place, the Tashir International "Super-tournament" concluded last week in Moscow. The special ev...

On October 20th, the prestigious World Junior Chess Championships concluded in Pune, India. The World Juniors, as it's often called, always draws the best U20 players fro...

On October 9th-13th, the most glamorous and arguably the strongest high-stake chess open in the world took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The Millionaire Chess(MC) Open...

At the beginning of this month, the 2014 Sinquefield Cup, the world's strongest closed tournament in history was held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. In this double-round ro...

Hi everyone! I'm back with a new series dedicated to strong tournament winners. Every month I will select one or two tournaments and feature an instructive game by the Ch...

Previously in TGH, we saw destructive tactical shots and counterblows in open positions. In this episode, we will examine tactical ideas that are more subtle or hidden in...

In this episode of TGH, I am featuring tactical motifs that happened and those that were missed by players from the recently concluded 23rd Annual Chicago Open which fiel...

Early this month, the recent Capablanca Memorial super-tournament was held in La Havana, Cuba and it featured elite players such as Ivanchuk, Dominguez, So, Almasi, Valle...

In my previous post, I examined Pavel Eljanov's crucial win over Bacrot in the second half of the event. The game I'm about to show is Pavel's important victory over Pol...

In the recent super-tournament in Azerbaijan, 2014 Gashimov Memorial, everyone knows that Magnus was victorious. That is in the A event. In my upcoming blogs, I will be w...

Previously in Tactical Game Highlights (TGH), I showed my game against Premkumar in which I successfully utilized my development advantage by creating threats and prepari...

This week I would like to show another master game on the subject of weak pawns. After much data mining or rather “game-mining” on this subject from the recent 2014 D...

In concurrence with my exploration on positional play, I would like to share tactical highlights from my recent games and other recent tournaments.To offer something uniq...

The next element of positional play I'd like to introduce is the weak pawn. I will not "reinvent the wheel" in identifying and describing the various types of weak pawn, ...

This week I decided to take a break from the typical examination of one positional theme and present you a recent game by one of the great masters of Positional Play. I i...

Last month, I ended with examining the third element of good positional play: good and bad squares. This week I would like to show how to effectively make the most of goo...

This week I’d like to explore the positional concept of good and bad squares. A keen reader of the previous articles will have noticed a strong link between squares and...

In my previous blog post, we saw the importance of placing our pieces towards the center and on squares where it attacks enemy weaknesses. In the game Van Kampen Thorfins...

Hi everyone! Beginning this month, I will do a series of blogs on the “Elements of Positional Play.” While opening preparation and calculation skills have taken a mor...

Sadorra, Julio Catalino - Pena, Pablo 2014 Western Class Championship 2014.03.07 In response to Janton's blog, here's my experience in dealing with an unsafe king in a ...

Miramonte, Roberto - Sadorra, Julio Catalino 2014 Lone Star Open 2014.02.22 Last week, I prepared for an open tournament over this past weekend: 2014 Lone Star Open FID...

Al Sayed, Mohamad (2476) - Van Kampen, R. (2602) Gibraltar Masters 2014 2014.02.03 Another player who performed well in the recent 2014 Gibraltar Masters was Qatari G...

Ivanchuk, Vassily (2739) - Ganguly, Surya Shekhar (2619) Tradewise Chess Congress 2014 2014.02.04 The recent 2014 Gibraltar Open Event was won by Ivan Cheparinov on tie...

Caruana, Fabiano (2782) - Aronian, Levon (2812) Zurich Chess Challenge 2014 2014.02.03 In the last round of the classical event, we saw a long fighting game between C...

Nakamura, Hikaru (2776) - Gelfand, Boris (2761) Zurich Chess Challenge 2014 2014.02.03 Today, Nakamura and Gelfand played a solid positional game that could be signif...

Hi everyone! I hope y'all are enjoying the top quality games from this year's Tata Steel Tournament so far. After much perusal and musing, I've come up with a second set...

Hi everyone! As promised earlier here are the solutions to the puzzles, with some thoughts on how we miss opportunities and make wrong decisions. Please feel free to lea...

Greetings everyone! I'm Grandmaster Julio Sadorra and I would like to present you some puzzles I derived from the master games at the ongoing 2014 Wijk Aan Zee. These pu...