Chess Tutoring, Chess Coaching, Chess Classes with NM Will Stewart

Breast cancer and bullet chess. Two seemingly unrelated pairs of words, similar only in their initial letters, suddenly brought into each other’s acquaintance. And what better introducer than a charity event for National Cancer Prevention Month? On February 17, 2012, a gentleman by the name of Bryan Bailey will play an incredible one-thousand-game marathon of bullet chess. That’s 1,000 consecutive games. Yes a thousand. The event is to raise awareness for breast cancer prevention where [...]

The great Alexander Alekhine once said, “The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.” Although quite heavy in his reasoning, it holds no weight in the accelerated form of chess where each player has only five minutes to make all his moves. It’s [...]

It was the reigning King, Garry Kasparov, against the future King, Viswanathan Anand. By “King,” of course I mean His Majesty the World Chess Champion. A title the two had played each other for in the previous year. A match in which Kasparov had successfully defended his crown against the would-be Emperor from India. This battle however, was in a different setting and at a much higher level of intensity. At the Credit Suisse Masters [...]