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Chessiq

who has written 96 posts for How to Think and Win at Chess.

Oct
12
2009

GM Gregory Serper – Openings for Tactical Players

GrandMaster Gregory Serper has amazing articles on openings for tactical players. (A link to his home page and all his content is provided at the bottom of this post. Some of the openings he has written about include:
Openings for Tactical Players: Center Game.
Openings for Tactical Players: the Danish Gambit.
Openings for Tactical Players: The Vienna Game.
Openings for Tactical [...]

Oct
10
2009

Games annotated by Chessiq at chess.com

A few people have asked me for games I have annotated move by move. I have quite a few such games at chess.com. Here is a link to those games. If the link does not work, you can go to chess.com, search “chessiq”, go to my blog, and then search blog for “annotated” and you [...]

Oct
6
2009

Annotated Fischer 002: Fischer – Bolbochan

In the following game, Fischer plays White against the Sicilian Najdorf. This game was annotated by Fischer.
Four things stood out for me in this game:
1. Fischer knew the game was won by move 20, because he had a “Knight Outpost” on d5. It took another 17 moves to execute his win. As some people say, [...]

Oct
4
2009

Annotated Fischer 001: Wolfgang Unzicker – Robert James Fischer

The following game (Sicilian Najdorf) was annotated by Fischer himself, so I did not add any comments to the actual score/notation. His comments are pretty high-level, one may find it necessary to use a board to see what he means when, for example, he gives advantage to Black or White a various points during the [...]

Oct
3
2009

Learn to play Chess in 30 minutes

There is a nice lesson on how to play chess at www.lokasoft.nl. Just in case somebody who does not know how to play Chess visits this blog, he or she could go over there and learn how to play and come back to enjoy the games and other Chess content over here. If the link [...]