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It has been a long time I haven’t posted about chess, although I have been continuously playing online. What is interesting in the following game, is that it’s not interesting at all, at least, from technical point of view.
I was in a very bad position and my opponent thought he would beat me in […]

Remember the King Sugar …

Vladimir Kramnik won a long anticipated unification match against Bulgaria’s Veselin Topalov in a tiebreaker Friday, becoming the first universally recognized world chess champion since 1993.
Each of the players, both 31, was to receive $500,000 for taking part in the match, which was arranged to heal a 13-year-old schism in the chess world dating […]

Interesting to know it. Ernesto “Che” Guevara used to be an excellent chessplayer! At least, he knew well the theory.
In 1962, in a great chess tournament (Cuban propaganda), many grandmasters participated, including Bobby Fischer, Tigran Petrossian, … and Miguel Najdorf who played against the Che; although his position was better, it seems that he […]

I can not resist to look for a Mat à l’Étouffée, the most beautiful and most attractive checkmate!
I have just won that game, and decided to share the beauty with chess lovers.
Cheers!

 
1…Nxg4 2. f4 Qe3+ 3. Kh1 Nf7+ 4. Kg1 Nh3++ 5. Kh1 Qg1+ 6. Rxg1 Nf7#

The first time I have seen the Immortal game was 5 years ago; I could not forget it since that time.
Adolf Anderssen gave almost all his pieces for nothing, in order to capture his majesty, playing the wild King Gambit, an agressive opening, but has 2 sides: Either you win, either you lose quickly! […]

During a tournament one day, Latvian chess master Aron Nimzowitsch complained that his opponent had laid an unlit cigar on the table beside the board. The director pointed out that the man was not in fact smoking. “Yes,” replied Nimzowitsch, “but he is threatening to smoke, and any fool knows that the threat is […]

Chess was not only owned by Sovietic players in the second half of the XXth century: Nobody can ignore Robert James “Bobby” Fischer, one of the most invincible players who could build a Myth and destroy it quickly!
The legend started when he was 14, he became the youngest US champion, defeating Reshevski in a very […]

Winning in chess may be sometimes common; but what is not common, is beating an M.I.T brain! I did it!!
I had a talk with my oponent who was friendly, told that s/he is from Massachussets, and has a connection with MIT (student, degree, teacher or whatever).
Anyway, The match started with a refused Benko gambit […]

I sometimes lose in chess, and I’m not ashamed of saying this. I’m not a professional player after all, but yesterday, I was amazed by the way that used my oponent to freeze and take my Queen. No computer could think so futher!

 
The game started with a “Calm” and theorical Spanish opening. I (with […]

Le Britannique Lennox Lewis a déclaré :”pour accroître mon agilité mentale je pratique le jeu d’échecs pendant mes soirées à la maison et c’est ainsi que j’ai pu vaincre Mike Tyson”. Il l’a mis k.o. au huitième round. Le nez et les arcades sourcilières en sang, l’iron Mike se tortillait sur le sol, tentant, […]

I was playing several chess games (16 exactly), and won them all. Well, I’m not going to talk about won or loss, but about something I always avoid and I don’t want it to be in my character.
Almost all the games were won with sadism, indifference, agressivity and superiority. If I were in my […]

The Sovietic chess school was the best at the time and is still the most solid; it has contributed to the chess culture a lot and is still a reference. But how about the “Jewish” school?
I had never looked for any chess player’s religion; but when I read a Wikipedia page, I changed my […]

In 1918, because he was a legal advisor to bankers, the famous chess player Ossip Bernstein was arrested in Odessa by the Cheka and scheduled for execution. As the firing squad lined up, a superior officer asked to see the list of prisoners’ names and, seeing Bernstein’s name, demanded whether he was the International […]

Saturday I played an online chess match, I already played thousands of similar games, but the interesting fact is that it was against a Tunisian blogger, /etc/shadow. Honestly, I thought I was going to win the match within few moves, but he built a solid but passive defence and could liberate his pieces in […]