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

Every seriously competitive chess player in the history of the game has consistently sought perfection on the board. For some, it became an insatiable mission that led to premature retirement from the game and devastating mental illness. Luckily for us, we can learn from the mistakes and successes of our predecessors to make our climb to the top of the chess world an enjoyable ascent. Designing the perfect chess player isn’t a question of genetics [...]

I found this wonderful gem of an article on a blog on chess.com that has been making me laugh all day. As you know chess players don’t always have the best tempers so sometimes they do pretty crazy things. Here is a fantastic list of chess players and chess related incidents that have ended up in the list. Read the list In 1624, playwright Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was arrested in London after producing a play, [...]

Below are the rankings of some of the greatest world champions, according to the author Jigar Raisinghani. Do you agree? If not, who are in your top 10 and by what order? Chess: The Greatest of the Greats Jigar Raisinghani | June 24th, 2011 Siegbert Tarrasch correctly said “Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess.” The 8×8 board has been puzzling man from centuries. There have been several great [...]

As many of you know a large portion of the recent candidates matches ended up with nothing draw-after-draw-after-draw as I lamented on twitter. The Super-GMs themselves cannot fully be blamed themselves, as much of the reason why they play for a draw is because of the way the tournaments are setup. But really, we are all getting tired of GM’s agreeing for a draw time after time again, sometimes only 20 moves into the game. [...]

In today’s beginner series we are going to cover the 3 basic principles of the opening using an example of one of the most famous chess games ever played. Before you even start thinking about memorizing specific openings you should always have these 3 principles in mind: Control the center – Controlling the center is absolutely vital because it is the “crossroads” of the board. It is very hard to advance on an opponents position [...]

Chess Cheating Hits New High The problem of cheating in chess has hit epidemic proportions with many reasons why. I’ll explain to you my opinion on the current situation on chess cheating, a bit on the history of cheating in chess, and what we can possibly do to stop it. Chess cheating continues from history till modern day Chess, the honorable game of kings, has had a markedly dark and diverse history of cheating. As [...]

I’ve found much better articles on the net regarding the origin’s of chess that would be better than anything I can put together so I thought I would post this great analysis done by author Jean-Louis Cazaux. This analysis is much more technical and delve’s into the real origin’s and evolution of chess. You can read the original article at Jean-Louis Cazaux’s website By: Jean-Louis Cazaux For many people, the eldest ancestor of Chess is an [...]