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...

Ten Seconds Update

What should White play? It is a blitz game; seconds matter. White to move

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...

Playing Tired Update

Who thinks well when they are sleep deprived? I certainly do not. This past week was the first of a two week event at the Spokane Chess Cl...

Quest for Advantage Update

This morning's blitz session ended after two games, a win and a loss. In the second game, the win, I found the only move that maintains ...

Byrne -- Fischer, New York 1956 Update

"Game of the Century" It was quite an experience to watch [Bobby Fischer] during the critical stage of the game. There he sat li...

Blunders Update

An appalling number of chess games are lost (and won) because a player puts a piece where it is free for the taking. Chess players use the t...

Develop Your King Update

In one of my many blitz games this morning, I had one of those many experiences when I realized that I was playing poorly and now seemed to ...