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Hello everyone we don't want to give you so many notifs so we will keep riddles and jokes in this forum together and from tomorrow we will post the jokes and riddles in this forum only thanks Today's joke Alekhine told this story - Bogoljubov played him two Championship matches, losing both, and was something of a rival in tournaments in the 1920s and early 1930s: "I dreamed I had died, and found myself at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter looked at me and said, 'Are you Alekhine, the World Chess Champion?' and of course I introduced myself. "St. Peter shook his head sadly and said, 'I'm sorry, but we have a strict rule that no chessplayers are allowed into Heaven.' I turned to walk away but just then, through the clouds, I spied my old friend Bogoljubov, and I rushed back to the gate. "I cried to St. Peter, ' But there is Bogoljubov, he is a chessplayer!' but he only smiled at me and shook his head. 'Oh no,' advised St. Peter, 'Bogoljubov only thinks he is a chessplayer!'" Daily riddle- Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?

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This topic is to bring our chess community together. If you have a game you played and would like help analyzing it, post it here. Get the PGN and click the chess board icon below and follow directions to post it. See: https://support.chess.com/article/316-how-do-i-put-a-game-or-puzzle-in-a-forum-post We ask all members to help, make suggestions. work as a team. Thanks, and look forward to seeing everyone learn!

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Dear Chess Friends, A few days ago I saw an amazing attacking game, in which White sacrifices many pieces to checkmate the Black king. I think it was a really instructive one (one of the best games I've ever seen), so I made a video of it. You can watch the full video (15 mins) with a FREE subscription on my Patreon channel here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/one-of-most-what-120254376?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link The main topics what you can learn from this video: - How to exploit your development advantage - How to attack against the king in the middle - Destructive sacrifices - The Greek Gift - Boden's mate I hope you'll find it useful. If you like it and you want to see my private educational videos, you can choose a membership on my Patreon channel. I upload 4-8 hours of videos / month and you can learn about openings, strategies, tactics and endgames, too. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to write to me. Kind regards, Gabor

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Dear Chess Friends! It’s Christmas week and many of us decide to relax and have some fun! That’s why I prepared a Christmas Simul instead of a regular webinar this Sunday! Since our last Simul you learned several important topics: How to find intermediate moves How to join passive pieces in the attack How to take an advantage of the geometry of a board And now it’s your chance to demonstrate how you improved your chess skills. Who wanted to play vs a titled player? Everyone is welcome! And, of course, I prepared gifts for those who will be able to outplay me! How does it work? You can attend this webinar as a player or just a spectator. If you want to be a player – register for the webinar and message me at tricksofchess@gmail.com that you would like to attend the webinar as a player (point out your chess.com username in this message). This exhibition is limited to 12 players only. That’s why I recommend you to register right now and reserve your spot. When we start the webinar, just log into your chess.com account, enter the “Live Chess” section and send me a challenge (30’+30”, unrated). My nickname on chess.com is Gertsog. (Don’t forget to send me a friend request) If you want to be a spectator – just come to the webinar, look at the screen, suggest moves and lines, or just comment on it. I’m going to comment on my moves and ideas too! What do you get from such a webinar? First of all, you get an opportunity to play with a titled chess player. Second, you will learn how the master thinks: What to take into account before making a move What is useless (or doesn’t deserve our attention) How to evaluate the position And how to come with a plan in a complicated position That’s why I welcome you to my 62nd chess webinar “Christmas Simul with FM Victor Neustroev”! If we have enough time, after finishing the games we can analyze them. The webinar starts on Sunday at 9 a.m. (EST), 2 p.m. (GMT), 6 p.m. (Moscow time). This webinar is free. Please, join using this link: https://tricksofchess.clickmeeting.com/christmas-simul/register Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See you at the webinar! FM Victor Neustroev

Dear Chess Friends! You know tactics and calculation are 2 main aspects of a chess game. You may point out that positional understanding is another good skill and it’s difficult to imagine a strong player who doesn’t understand the position! And I agree with you! But for amateurs and intermediate club players tactical skills are more important! I recommend learning them by motifs – one by one. And in this video, I would like to demonstrate such a tactical motif as distraction! In other words, I’ll teach you how to deflect your opponent! And, of course, illustrate everything by simple examples and beautiful masters’ games. If you are beginner or an intermediate club player and would like to learn about Distraction watch this video about How and When to Deflect Your Opponent! Subscribe on YouTube In chess, there is a great tactical maneuver – Distraction. Its essence is to deflect the opponent's enemy pieces, that play an important role, from their positions. In this case, the opponent either suffers huge material losses, or gets a checkmate. But how do you know when to use this technique? If a forced checkmate is planned A striking example of a distraction with a forced mate is this simple position: The knight on f6 protects the H7 and e8 squares – dangerous and weak squares. Here you need to give your opponent what they want so much – sacrifice a piece. After the sacrifice of the rook Re8!, black can give up. They got what they wanted – they took the rook, and stopped protecting the h7 square. After this move black is sure to get checkmate by white's move Qh7# Moreover, it works even with a different move order! We can sacrifice the Queen on h7 first and then play Re8+, Knight has to block on f8, but Rook takes Knight - checkmate! 2. If the opponent has a weak position that allows you to gain a material advantage. In this position, you can make 2 tempting moves, "feed the opponent with a small piece" so that he believes that he won it. In this case, the piece is the white rook, which is the key to victory: 1) 1. Re8+ Rxe8 2. Qxd6 ... (the Queen is won) 2) 1. Re8+ Kg7 2. Rxd8 ... (And now if black takes the Queen, Qxd1+ , then the black Queen is lost and you are left with an extra rook) There is another kind of distraction – the distraction of checking piece – tactical chess technique in which the piece is distracted checking on less favorable position, but continues to declare check, it gets itself in a bad position, tighten the noose, and you're its only help. That's the point of distraction. Another example of the simplest distraction of a missing piece: The rook checks the white king on f2, and tries to go back to catch the pawn on g7. But black has a great distraction-sacrifice-Nf4!! Now the Knight is "poisoned". If Black is greedy and takes the knight, white king moves to g3 and the rook can’t cover the queening square, allowing white to promote a Queen. But if rook retreats, for example on g5, the knight will be used as a powerful weapon against the opponent's move Nxе6+! With the capture of a pawn and the subsequent capture of a rook. Thus, the opponent himself tied a deadly knot, and you only helped him. Now let's see how the distraction technique is used by chess masters: 1) Adolf Andersen - Lionel Kiesericki (1-0) 2) Eddwin Ziegler Adams – Carlos Torre Repeto (1-0) You can find the analysis of this game in My Chess Blog. To sum up: 1) You have learned about the tactical maneuver – distraction, and in what cases it is used. 2) You have viewed this technique in various chess positions. 3) We saw how chess masters use this technique. I hope this article was useful for you. Visit my Chess Blog! With best wishes, FM Victor Neustroev

Dear Chess Friends! It’s a common mistake for many chess players to not see the whole board when calculating the lines. Especially, if the theater of war is located on a certain and small part of the board. That’s why it’s easy to blunder “a long move” that can be played with a piece in the distance. Such type of moves allows us to join the piece into the attack and surprise our opponents. However, of course, the idea of such moves is not only to do something unexpected but to get a material advantage on a certain part of the board, which is very often decisive for the game result. I’m glad to welcome you to the 61st webinar “How to Take an Advantage of Geometric Pattern of your Position?" where you will learn how to use the geometry of the board and coordinate your pieces properly. I'll explain how to find “long moves” and when to play them so that your opponent isn’t prepared. Of course, everything will be illustrated by GMs’ games. The games played by top grandmasters I'm going to demonstrate at the webinar (and, of course, explain the ideas behind their moves): Alisa Galliamova – Sergei Rublevsky German Fridstein – Vladimir Simagin Dimitri Reinderman – Viswanathan Anand Come to the webinar, learn how to join your passive pieces in the attack, and win more games! The webinar starts on Sunday (20th of December) at 9 a.m. (EST), 2 p.m. (GMT), 5 p.m. (Moscow time). This webinar is free. Please, register for the webinar with this link: https://tricksofchess.clickmeeting.com/geometry/register Please, don’t forget to register in advance and reserve your spot in case of a high number of attendees. See you at the webinar! FM Victor Neustroev

Dear Chess Friends! I always tell my students to develop all their pieces before starting any active actions. Chess players should use the principle of cooperation of their pieces. This principle was first applied by Paul Morphy. He contrary to the actions of his contemporaries tried to improve the coordination of his pieces in his games. Sometimes, he could even sacrifice material, but join more pieces into the attack and win the game after that! However, it’s very often when chess players face with such a situation when they don’t have enough material on a certain side of the board to be able to succeed with the attack there. How to deal with it and join passive pieces in the attack as fast as you can? This what I’m going to teach you at my next 60th webinar “Inclusion of Passive Pieces in the Attack”. I’m glad to welcome you to the 60th webinar “Inclusion of Passive Pieces in the Attack" where I'll explain what exactly to do to maneuver with your pieces to get them involved in the attack and at the same time to not slow down the pace of your attack. Of course, everything will be illustrated by GMs’ games. The games played by top grandmasters I'm going to demonstrate at the webinar (and, of course, explain the ideas behind their moves): Arthur Yusupov – Robert Morenz Alexander Kotov – Mikhail Botvinnik Tigran Petrosian – Boris Spassky Come to the webinar, learn how to join your passive pieces in the attack and win more games! The webinar starts on Sunday (13th of December) at 9 a.m. (EST), 2 p.m. (GMT), 5 p.m. (Moscow time). This webinar is free. Please, register for the webinar with this link: https://tricksofchess.clickmeeting.com/webinar-60-inclusion-of-passive-pieces-in-the-attack/register Please, don’t forget to register in advance and reserve your spot in case of a high number of attendees. See you at the webinar! FM Victor Neustroev

Dear Chess Friends! This is FM Viktor Neustroev. You know, in chess, success is important for every player.Many of us, including myself, are terrified of failure. But if you plan to be successful, you must learn to respond to failures accordingly, and restore your spirit. An example: in 2018, a match for the title of world chess champion was held between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana. The main part of the match ended in a draw. Therefore, a tiebreak was organized from 4 games in rapid, 3 games in blitz and Armageddon (if necessary). Fabiano lost the first game and got very upset: it stopped him from fighting further. He doubted himself and as a result, rapid lost 2 more games. How to avoid this situation? If you want to learn how to bounce back from a tough loss, watch this video to the very end and I’ll provide you with several tips that helped me to recover my spirit and gain more points in the tournament after tough losses in the middle. Subscribe on YouTube Each of us has some weaknesses, each is characterized by certain addictions. In chess, success is important for every player. But the path to success also includes dealing with failures, which greatly affects the spirit of players. Magnus Carlsen - Fabiano Caruana (first rapid game of Championship Match) How to avoid this situation? 1) Don't blame yourself. NEVER blame yourself. The prosecution is acting very negatively. Mistakes don't destroy you, they help you overcome your fear of doing something. Mistakes allow us to go back and see what would have happened if we had played correctly. But they won't help us if we start blaming ourselves. 2) Be open to discuss the game with other chess players. As Socrates said, "in full-fledged dialogues, truth was born." And so your failure is already shared among several people. They are interested in it, but for you it is a great psychological support. 3) Relax Do something that will distract your thoughts from losing, and bring you pleasure: read an interesting book, go to the gym, watch a movie! take a bath, listen to music, play your favorite outdoor game (soccer, Golf, etc.) 4) Reflect on your experience "Only ruthless criticism leads to the goal" (Wilhelm Steinitz). Think about why you made mistakes. Under the influence of what factors? Maybe you don't understand something about this type of position? If this is the case, you should look at several games of grandmasters in similar positions and determine the typical plans for yourself. If this is just a miscalculation, then you need to understand why: fatigue or a banal lack of counting skills. 5) Always believe in yourself Play the next game from scratch and believe that it is in this game that you will be able to show your strengths. You also don't need to look back at the last game. You lost it, and nothing can change. So show what you can do in the current game. "And remember-to win, you must first play." (Albert Einstein). If you have any other ideas of how to restore your spirit after a tough loss, please, share them into the comment section! Visit my Chess Blog to read more Chess News from FM Viktor Neustroev I wish you all black and white harmony! FM Viktor Neustroev.

Dear Chess Friends! Have you ever faced such a situation when you calculated a long combination but it failed because your opponent found how to improve? Usually, it happens because you overlook a certain opponent’s move. You may argue with me or not, but every chess player makes this type of mistake and overlooks an intermediate move. What is “Intermediate Move” (also called an in-between move, intermezzo, or zwischenzug)? When in a variation instead of a natural retreat or capture a somewhat abstract move suddenly follows, it is called an intermediate move! Usually, it happens on the other side of the board and with a tempo makes changes to the position. Chess players often overlook such moves. And this is where you can take advantage if you learn how to find such intermediate moves. I’m glad to welcome you to my next 59th webinar “Intermediate Move" where I'll explain how to notice intermediate move for yourself and to not overlook it from your opponent! Of course, everything will be illustrated by GMs’ games. The games played by top grandmasters I'm going to demonstrate on the webinar (and, of course, explain the ideas behind their moves): Mateusz Bartel – Pentala Harikrishna Boris Spassky – Robert Huebner Vladimir Akopian – Miguel Illescas Come to the webinar, learn how to find intermediate moves, and win more games! The webinar starts on Sunday (6th of December) at 9 a.m. (EST), 2 p.m. (GMT), 5 p.m. (Moscow time). This webinar is free. Please, register for the webinar with this link: https://tricksofchess.clickmeeting.com/webinar-59-intermediate-move/register Please, don’t forget to register in advance and reserve your spot in case of a high number of attendees. See you at the webinar! FM Victor Neustroev

Hey guys, this is @Phantom_Beast23 And here is my new blog! I took a long time on this to take all the games I knew that had the QG and made a list of my 5 favorite games! What I talked about! - Games That featured The QG - Annotations of each of the games! - And Some background history of the games! This took a while ( and when I say that I mean 2 days ish ) So it would mean a LOT if you could check it out! Here's also a link to all my other blogs! Thank you, @Phantom_Beast23

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My Dear Chess Friends! This is FM Viktor Neustroev and this is the third video devoted to the best player of all time. And in this video, I’m going to introduce Garry Kasparov. I’m sure many of you would say that Garry is the best chess player of all time! Let’s learn something new from Garry's chess life and observe his second-best game! Why second? Because I’ve already made a review of the best game of all time and that was the game between Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov! And one more thing before we start, my previous video was devoted to Bobby Fischer and I was asking you what else Bobby invented for chess. Would you like to know the answer? Please, watch this video to the very end and you’ll find the answer. Subscribe on YouTube Ok, before we start the analysis of Garry Kasparov’s game. Let me tell you about his biography. Actually, Kasparov is the last name of his mother. When Garry was born, his full name was Garik Kimovich Weinstein. However, he decided to change his last name at the age of 12. Garry’s parents liked to solve chess puzzles published in Soviet Newspapers. And at the age of 5, Garry suggested a solution to one of them. And this that moment his father started teaching him chess. Nowadays Garry is also known as a writer and political activist. But, of course, chess made him popular. At the age of 22 he became a World Champion in 1984 defeating Anatoly Karpov. And from 1984 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 255 months overall for his career. His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. About Bobby Fischer's contribution to World Chess Bobby Fischer invented “Increment”. This is a timing method that we get used to nowadays. A specified amount of time is added to the players main time each move, unless the player's main time ran out before they completed their move. For example, 3+2 means that 2 seconds are added to the main time after a player makes a move on the board and punches the clock. What else did Bobby Fischer create? He invented Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess. It’s a new variation of chess that employs the same board and pieces as standard chess, but the starting position of the pieces on the players' home ranks is randomized, following certain rules. The random setup makes gaining an advantage through the memorization of openings impracticable; players instead must rely more on their spontaneous talent and creativity over the board. In this video you learned about Garry Kasparov, Soviet & Russian grandmaster. I’m absolutely sure that Garry Kasparov deserved the title of “The Best Player of all time”, but before taking a final decision we should also observe 2 more candidates. Thank you for watching and make sure to like this video, subscribe to my channel and share it with your friends - chess players. I hope you enjoyed this video and liked his second-best game, but if you want to look at the analysis of Garry’s best (and the most brilliant) game, watch the video where I review the game between Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov. If you think that these 2 games played by Garry Kasparov are not the best games he ever played, please, share your thoughts about his best game into the comment section below. Ok, don’t miss my next video about Vishy Anand, enjoy Garry’s best game and I’ll see you there in a moment! Subscribe on YouTube Best Regards,FM Viktor Neustroev

Dear Chess Friends! This is FM Viktor Neustroev and this is the second video devoted to the best player of all time. Who deserves this title? Please, let me know what you think. However, I choose 5 candidates who in my opinion deserve this title. They are:1. Emanuel Lasker2. Bobby Fischer3. Garry Kasparov4. Vishy Anand5. Magnus CarlsenToday I’ll tell you about Bobby Fischer (the most known American grandmaster). Is he the best chess player of all time? I’m sure many of you agree with this statement. However, before you take a final decision, let me introduce him and demonstrate the best game he ever played. Subscribe on YouTube Bobby Fischer (his full name was Robert James Fischer) was an American chess grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. Bobby Fischer was a phenomenon of his day. At age 14, he became the youngest ever U.S. Chess Champion, and at 15, he became both the youngest grandmaster (GM) up to that time and the youngest candidate for the World Championship.Fischer won the World Chess Championship in 1972, defeating Boris Spassky of the USSR, in a match held in Reykjavík, Iceland. He was preparing for this match and even learned Russian to read chess books published in Soviet Union. That time all new chess books with contemporary theory were first released in Russian and, of course, only a few of them were translated to English.In this video we are going to observe the game that Bobby played against Boris Spassky in their championship match. In this video you learned about Bobby Fischer, American grandmaster, who can be considered as “The Best Player of all time” according to the opinions of several chess experts. I demonstrated the game that Bobby played against Boris Spassky. Thank you for watching and make sure to like this video, subscribe to my channel and share it with your friends - chess players. I also would like to ask if you know what else Bobby Fischer designed for chess. Please, share your ideas into the comment section below this video! And find the answer late in my next video. I hope you enjoyed this video and don’t miss the next one, where I’m going to present the next candidate – Garry Kasparov and demonstrate his second-best game. Visit my Chess Blog to read more Chess News from FM Viktor Neustroev Best Regards,FM Viktor Neustroev

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Hey guys, so I made a blog today which was about Time Controls! I basically talked about what time control I would recommend! I covered - Pros and cons of each rating system - Recommended time control to play - And some tips as well Here is where the Blog can be found! Thank you, @Phantom_Beast23!

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I Know, people Get tired of The Self-Promotion! So here's my New Trick, In past 2 Days, I Posted 5 Blogs, from which u can learn a Lot! Check all Blogs 1-By-1 To Learn, I'll Post These Forums Once In 2-3 Days, which will clear people's problem! pls Read All for learning! #Games - Top 10 Games of The 1960s - Taming The Tiger - Spassky VS Petrosian, 1969 Master Analysis of Your Games! #2 #Games - Top 10 Games of The 1960s - Botvinnik and Paid for - Botvinnik VS Portisch , 1968 #Games - Top 10 Games of The 1960s - Fischer VS Fine, 1963 #Games - Top 10 Games of The 1960s - Rook,Line and Sinker - Fischer VS Benko Thank You, DO CHECK! Best Regards, @A_OP_Chess_Gamer