Cultivating Youth Skills Update

My chess students range from absolute beginners who have just learned how the pieces move and are beginning to discover forks and pins to so...

Bogoljubov -- Alekhine, Hastings 1922 Update

Alexander Alekhine gave up three queens to beat Efim Bogoljubow in their last round game at Hastings Six Masters in 1922. The game featured ...

Creating the 300 Update

In GM-RAM: Essential Grandmaster Knowledge (2000), Rashid Ziyatdinov offers his version of the legendary 300 positions that a player must k...