Learn how to better manage your time during a chess game. Time management is an important, but often overlooked, chess skill.

Paul Morphy is widely considered the greatest chess player of his era, and is often referred to as an unofficial World Champion.

A description and guide to the common openings lines which can be reached from the Italian Game.

Learn how to read and write algebraic chess notation.

A review of the new 21st century edition of Lasker’s Manual of Chess.

The 2008 Chess Olympiad has reached its final round, with several teams still in contention on the final day. In the Open section, Armenia and Ukraine are tied for…

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…

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 [...]