The long term plans and ideas that guide play beyond what a player can calculate in the short-term.

A terrible chess move.

Earlier this week, FIDE annonuced that Gata Kamsky and Veselin Topalov have indeed agreed to play their candidates match in Sofia, Bulgaria, in late February. The agreement comes after months…

It’s rapidly becoming difficult to figure out when or where to expect the Kamsky-Topalov Candidates Match to occur.

In ChessBase’s latest Olympiad update, a brief mention was given to the blight of the Ugandan team, which was forfeited today in their match against Latvia when only one of…

The Summer Olympics in Beijing were a great festival of sporting talent, but chess has never been able to break into the program of events. Luckily, we have our own…

If you are like me you enjoy playing chess but hate losing more
often than you win. For me at least, winning often seemed more
of an accident than skill. Well, having many hours of trial and
error, studying moves my opponents made, looking at what I was
doing, etc. I came up with a few basic ideas on [...]