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White to move.

Black to move.

This Monday our team competition started. I was 6 weeks without competetive chess, so I was looking forward to play again. If you take into consideration that I really enjoyed live streams from the Corus tournament then you can’t imagine how ‘horny’ I was to play chess
Our opponent in the 1st round was [...]

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A few days ago I wrote about two books I received from The Prodigal Pawn and I mentioned that a method od C. J. S. Purdy grabbed my attention. Simultaneously I promised to write about the method later.
So what is the base of the method?
All of know that playing games of chess masters (and grandmasters) [...]

In my previous post Chess goals for 2010 I mentioned the most important directions which I would like to go to improve my chess this year.
To achieve an improvement it is necessary to study chess games and/or books. As probably many of you, I have quite good chess library, but I have not go through [...]

Black to move.

White to move.

Generally, chess is being played by two opposing humans. However, since chess has become an online game, chess players have an option to choose playing chess versus human or playing chess versus computer. Apart from these options, nothing is change regarding the rules and concepts of the game. Unlike the traditional game of chess, computer [...]