Hello, guys! All chess fans are anticipating the WC match, but in the last two days, we have all seen the battle between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana. Well, it was 960-chess, but it was chess!After winning the first game, Magnus needed a d...
Dear chess friends! I continue to publish the most crucial moments from my recent games. This time you will see an extremely interesting and instructive knight endgame + one middlegame position to solve. Let's begin. How White should play in...
Dear chess friends! For more than 8 years I had been inactive due to family, University, and coaching activities. But the war that began in my country practically forced me to restore my playing career. I can't say that I again became a professi...
Many of us have an experience of how dangerous the opponent’s knight on f4 (f5) can be when your king is castled to the king side. This post is to tell you about a few methods of how to fight with such a knight. The first example sho...
A second day all chess news is about Firouzja's record! He is only 18 years and already has 2800! It is amazing! In this post, I am not going to look at the future but at the past. In 2009 the national team of Azerbaijan became (for the ...
On July 2, 2021, www.stockfishchess.org published such text: "Today, we have the pleasure to announce Stockfish 14". There are many announcements in the world of engines but I am firmly convinced that this one made a huge impact on our chess world...
Dear chess players! It happens so, that the next week is my last week as a University teacher. From October, 31 I am going to focus more on my chess activity. The latter includes coaching and writing (mostly for ModernChess and ChessAble). So,...
The annual charity chess tournament dedicated to the memory of Danil Kucherenko (1983-2014) - PhD in Medicine and a vivid chess player. This year, due to COVID-19, the tournament will be hosted online with all the proceeds from the tournament goin...
С 2014 по 2019 года в Харькове проводились рапид-турниры, посвящённые памяти Данила Кучеренко (1983-2014), но в этому году всемирная пандемия внесла свои коррективы. Поскольку Данил был одновременно кандидатом в мастера спорта (с ...
I'm happy to announce that second part of my series Improving the Endgame Technique is already available on Amazon. In near future it will be also available on ForwardChess app (if you do not have this app on your electronic device I strongly reco...
Family duties do not leave many chances to post anything, but I can not stop myself from publishing following position. This position could happen in the rapid game between Loek Van Wely and Vassily Ivanchuk. As it often happens, the most inte...
My book Improving the Endgame Technique is now available on interactive chess reader from ForwardChess. Even if you don't want to read about Same-Colored Bishop Endgames, I recommend you to download this App to look how the Reader works. It's muc...
Hello, chess friends! Again I present a game in which I was crushed very quickly. The main theme is to show the reasons why such failures happen; so you will be able to avoid the same mistakes in your own games. Today's game has been played in the...
Let me present another quick loss, in which I demonstrated a lack of a sense of danger. The 2006 Ukrainian championship U-20 was extremely strong. We had 3 2500+ players (Kryvoruchko, Oleksienko and me); Volodymyr Onischuk, Martyn Kravtsiv, Yuri a...
Dear chess friends: Most of us are used to recollecting our own combinations, especially the ones demonstrate our unique tactical vision. But how often do you recollect your losses? I decided to break down this wall and to share with you a few ...
Dear chess friends! I am happy to announce, that my first e-book is issued. It is dedicated to problem of same-colored bishop endgames and offers a lot of analysis, explanations, exercises/questions, advice etc. So far it is available on Amazon (...
Уважаемые друзья! Приглашаем всех желающих и могущих принять участие в рапид-турнире, посвященном памяти нашего друга Данила Кучеренко. Турнир запланирован на 10, 11 июня; место проведения - Харьков, ШШК "Шахрад". Больше информации - здесь: http:/...
What do you appreciate more of all in chess? There are many good points about our beloved game, but today I would say that I enjoy more of all the ideas - spectacular, unbelievable, extraordinary... Once you see something like this, you never forg...
In the history of chess there were many cases, when resignation was premature. Kramnik-Svidler, Wijk-aan-Zee, 2004; Aronian-Bacrot, FIDE World Cup, 2005 are probably the most famous examples. In both of them the resigning side missed some defendin...
In my previous post I offered you the analysis of the Gashimov-Kortchnoj. Now let's learn with 7-th World Champion Vasily Smyslov. For the fortress, which arose in the last side line, we need to post the diagram. White has a perfect defending ...
Being a coach for almost 10 years, I have collected a lot of interesting materials on my computer sorted to different folders. Recently, I decided, that it is time to start sharing all this. To start I picked up the game played in the Russian Club...
In life of the chess GM there are not many moments, when he finds something extraordinary. I had a few such godsends, and this post is about one of them. In 2012 I wrote the book dedicated to the opening repertoire for Black based on the Benko ga...
Surely, yesterday's draw in the Carlsen-Batsiashvili is the top news from round 1 of Qatar open, but I guess, that many of chess players could predict such a hard start of Carlsen. It's simply unexplanable, why he is so "weak" against 2600-around ...
This could happen in the Arzumanian-Buchnicek, 2004 game.
It's just hard to believe that White should spend so many moves to win this position. How many moves ahead can you calculate here?
