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
4
2009
4
2009
Oct
3
2009
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 [...]
Sep
27
2009
27
2009
Annotated Miniature 3: Gedult – Sachs
This is a Queens Gambit Declined game. White sacrifices a pawn for rapid development. Black picks up two pawns and sort of gives up a piece hoping to trick White into a a checkmate position. He ends up being checkmated as he protects his Queen at the expense of the King! Comments are welcome.
Annotated Miniature [...]
Sep
8
2009
8
2009
Imagination in Chess
There have been debates on what is more important, imagination or knowledge? Albert Einstein is quoted as having said, “imagination is more important that knowledge”. He could be right. He did not say, knowledge is not important. Knowledge is important, so is imagination. However, comparatively, in his opinion, imagination is more important.
I think imagination and [...]
Sep
7
2009
7
2009
Annotated Miniature 1: Mayet – Anderssen, 1851
Studying miniatures has many benefits. First, almost always, the winner wins quickly because the loser did something (really bad) that s/he should not have done in the opening. Second, related to the first reason, one learns what not to do. Third, related to the first and the second, one learns how to finish off a [...]
