Studying with Kramnik Update

Over the course of three sessions, I blitzed through all of the games in Chess Informant 130 that contain an ECO Code beginning with E.* As...

Inspired by Morphy Update

Lesson of the Week This week's lesson for advanced students features part of a complex struggle that reveals how Yasser Seirawan was i...

Basic Tactics: Pins and Forks Update

Yesterday, my beginning chess club saw an obscure miniature and then completed the worksheet Beginning Tactics 3. Beginning Tactics 3 Fi...

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...

Calculate Update

This past weekend was the 26th annual Collyer Memorial chess tournament. I have played most years, and have had my best and worst tournament...

Karel Traxler's Brilliancy Update

Lesson of the Week My advanced students spent half an hour on the game that gave the Traxler Counter-Attack its name. Reinisch,J -- Tra...

Tactics: Basic and Advanced Update

Lesson of the Week Bobby Fischer has been my theme this week. Most of my students have seen various positions derived from his brilliant w...

Useful Knowledge Update

How do chess players develop their skill? There is no doubt that strengthening tactics--pattern recognition and calculation--is essential....