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

It seems like promoting chess has always been an uphill battle, requiring some type of catalyst to maintain the game’s popularity. Going back to the 1950s and 1960s, there was Bobby Fischer and the Western World against the Soviet Union. In the 1970s and 1980s, there was the changing of the Soviet guard amidst a string of incredibly hard-fought matches between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. In the 1990s Kasparov dominated the game, however he [...]

The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) represents a dying breed of whole-heartedly altruistic promotion of chess. FICS was created with the sole purpose of making internet chess accessible to all parts of the globe – FOR FREE! The Free Internet Chess Server offers nearly every variant of chess with the most popular being Bughouse Chess, Crazyhouse, Loser’s Chess, Suicide, and Atomic chess. FICS also provides a variety of different interfaces for chess players of all [...]

  Continuing Coverage of the unique Super Tournament: Amber 2011, presenting a Round 8 Rapid Game between Vassily Ivanchuk (of Ukraine) vs Boris Gelfand (of Israel). The opening was not particularly interesting in this game, as a standard Petroff

    UPDATE: This version has correctly synced audio, sorry about that first version. Continuing my coverage of Amber 2011, this video analyzes the Round 5 Rapid game between two of the World’s Best – Boris Gelfand and Vladimir Kramnik.Gelfand opened with his queen pawn to d4, and Kramnik took matters into a Nimzo-Indian. Gelfand played to close the center and gain space with an early c5, which later became more of a weakness than [...]

mber is well-known because of it’s unique format – half of the tournament is Blindfold Chess, and the other half is Rapid Chess (25 min, 30 sec increment). This video discusses a Blindfolded game at round 3 of Amber 2011 in Monte-Carlo between Vassily Ivanchuk and Hikaru Nakamura. A fantastic Blindfold game played by Nakamura,

n this video online chess tutor William Stewart examine a very recent chess game from the popular tournament “Amber 2011″ chess tournament. Amber is well-known because of it’s unique format – half of the tournament is Blindfold Chess, and the other half is Rapid Chess (25 min, 30 sec increment). This video discusses a Rapid game from Round 1 between Kramnik and Grischuk that ended up transposing to a Benoni. Grischuk played aggressively, and scored [...]