Canada and America have competed in every conceivable type of event. In hockey Canada has dominated, in war we're tied, sort of, and in everything else, including chess, America has tended to dominate. Which is why the recent continuation of this...
So everyone probably knows by now that chess.com shut down yesterday, and when you attempted to access the site, a new page prompted you to try your hand against Little ChessPartner. I thought, why not? I chose White set it to the highest difficul...
A little while ago I was in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Don't worry if you've never heard of it, you're part of the majority) playing in an open tournament where I was amazingly underated (My performance was 650 or so above my rating) which may hav...
The grandest tradition in chess history is not, as most would expect, making excuses or even emasculating your opponent (May Bobby Fischer rest in peace). It is vilifying the game. Raymond Chandler (No, I've never heard of him before either) ...
When we think of daring, attacking, sacrificial masters of the attack. Several names always come to mind. Andersson, Morphy, Blackburne, Marshall and, perhaps first and foremost, Mikhail Tal. But there is another name that deserves to be listed am...
First, there was the opening. The over-analysed beginning of the game. Here innovations are researched by masters, studied by experts and puzzled over by the rank amateur. The middlegame, the mystical ideal of complexity, the drama here is ...
Here is my own Satire of Satires, an homage to Ambrose Bierce's brilliant work, The Devil's Dictionary which contained comical (and cynical) definitions of commonplace words. Analysis- A language with no known native speakers....
This is my last Opening for Beginners Article, and I hope you all enjoyed them and learned something too. Its basically a wrap up, I'm going to try and avoid repeating things from past articles, and focus on the things that don't quit...
This article is about the most important of the three Opening principles, King Safety. It's also the most fun because there's little I can really say on the subject, at least not much too say as it relates to openings. But t...
In Part #1 I discussed the importance of development, and mentioned in passing the importance of developing towards the centre. In this article I will expound upon the importance of the centre. Firstly the centre of the board are the squares e4, e...
The opening is the first of three sections which a chess game is commonly divided into, the other two being the middlegame and the endgame (If you can't figure out which goes when then please, close this site and find a new hobby. Perhaps...
