Conceived on December 10, 1841, Blackburne claimed to have learn chess in 1859, between the ages of 17-18. By and large in match play he fared incredibly inadequately against his counterparts however he had fine exhibitions against them in competition play. Were not...
Mikhail Chigorin was without a doubt one of the romantics’ school record-breaking extraordinary professional, who designed the Chigorin Defense (1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6!?), the Chigorin Variation of the Ruy Lopez. Maybe most endearingly, he was the special case to the...
Today’s blog will talk about the romantic era. This is one of the most requested topics and I’m finally going to talk about it today. The style of the romantic era was described by sharp, sacrificing play with persistent vitality. We’re talking...
“How do you improve your evaluation skills?” is a question I received from a person that asked me this in my forum (which you can access by clicking here). This is a central issue, in my understanding almost practically proportional to “How would you...
There are such a large number of angles/perspectives to chess improvement that it is hard to tell where to begin, yet how about we survey a few general principles that underlie all improvement: Better players make better moves. Easy. So in the event that you...
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