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Johannes Zukertort | Romantic Chess Part 1
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 openings in 1.e4 e5...
A Guide to improve your evaluation skills
"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 improve at...
Important aspect of improving your chess skills
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 don't...
Guide to Underpromotion
The idea of underpromotion embodies the excellence of chess. The biggest miracles in the game of chess occurs when a pawn reaches the last rank. In such a situation the weakest chess piece can instantly become the strongest one! .Theoretically, the queen is by a wide...
Missing zugzwang as an endgame weapon
Often, in the opening and middlegame if one has an extra move that is unanimously an advantage for the player who has the extra move. We can also simply confirm this from the fact that masters like Paul Morphy who used to play against lower rated players used to give...
What’s a decent opening?
Some of the time I get asked, outside of any relevant connection and situation, "What's a decent opening you suggest?", "What's a decent opening for White?", or "What a decent opening against 1.e4?". The issue is with the word "good". If by "good" you mean, all the...
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