In this video you will see the first game of the match between the two top chess players of different styles, Kramnik and Aronian. After the home preparation, which didn’t come out very well, Kramnik …
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In this video you will see the first game of the match between the two top chess players of different styles, Kramnik and Aronian. After the home preparation, which didn’t come out very well, Kramnik …
Read the full story »
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If you are a regular reader of chess news, you may have noticed reports on the planned production of a chess-themed reality show. According to renowned sources such as chessbase.com, it will be the first …
This time, GM Jan Markos discusses the game between world’s number one, Norwegian Magnuss Carlsen and France’s best player, Etienne Bacrot. The game took place in 2010 at the prestigious Nanjing Spring Chess Tournament in China. The …
It has been a while since the first part. In fact, the second part got lost somewhere in the dim-lit corners of our minds, as well as the oblivion of our content management system. But …
Over the last five years, ChessFriends.com have been constantly updated, improved and developed. It demanded full-time effort by a team of dedicated individuals, who have chosen to do what they love and provide the results …
In today’s video, we will witness the game between Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura from this year’s Tata Steel Championship. This game is very interesting because of its material imbalance, which makes the so-called ‘rules’ …
Following diagrams are taken from the games of the last unofficial World’s Chess Champion, Paul Morphy. You may try to solve them and practice your tactical skills. A difficulty of the positions gradually rises; the initial …
In this video you will see the first game of the match between the two top chess players of different styles, Kramnik and Aronian. After the home preparation, which didn’t come out very well, Kramnik got into a little worse endgame which he failed to defend and lost. The game nicely illustrates the struggle between two minor pieces – knight and bishop. The knight will be doing much worse this time… Read the full story »
This time, GM Jan Markos discusses the game between world’s number one, Norwegian Magnuss Carlsen and France’s best player, Etienne Bacrot. The game took place in 2010 at the prestigious Nanjing Spring Chess Tournament in China. The …
In today’s video, we will witness the game between Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura from this year’s Tata Steel Championship. This game is very interesting because of its material imbalance, which makes the so-called ‘rules’ …
The new video in the Grandmaster Explains has been released. This time, Jan Markos does something unusual: he publicly contemplates upon his game against GM Mihail Saltaev. The theme of the video is a pawn …
Over the last five years, ChessFriends.com have been constantly updated, improved and developed. It demanded full-time effort by a team of dedicated individuals, who have chosen to do what they love and provide the results …
Did you read the series “Understand The Position” carefully? Test yourself! The correct answers are to be found in the previous parts of this series.
Following diagrams are taken from the games of the last unofficial World’s Chess Champion, Paul Morphy. You may try to solve them and practice your tactical skills. A difficulty of the positions gradually rises; the initial …
The position of Black on the diagram is similar to a well fortified castle. The rook on e5 is its main bastion. It cannot be driven away neither by pawns, bishop (dark-squared bishops are already …
The video series by Jan Markos continues with another edition (now in Full HD quality), in which he discusses the match between Azerbaijani Mamedyarov and Russian Morozevich. The game took place at the recently played …
Do you know how the king cobra is called in Thailand? “A single step snake.” If somebody gets bitten by this snake, he has just one step left until the end of his life. The …
Another part of our video lesson is dedicated to tactics. Tactics and strategy are two central components of every chess game. This video is focused on explaining the relationship between these two similar, but not …
When students in Slovakia finish high school, they are giving their friends graduation announcements. When I recently received such graduation announcement from one of my students, it had the following motto on it: “Always aim …
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