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Info about the Game Of The Week can be found in this post.

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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!

We're going to start having live tournaments! Here's the schedule: PLEASE REMEMBER to subscribe to the event (get notified before it starts) here so you don't miss it. Thanks! Saturday: 3/2 Blitz Swiss at 17:00 UTC Saturday: 1/1 Bullet Swiss at 22:00 UTC Sunday: 3/0 Blitz Arena at 18:00 UTC Sunday: 1/0 Bullet Arena at 21:00 UTC Having live tourneys daily will be a great addition to our club. Hope you guys enjoy them. If you have any questions or concerns about the schedule, please post in the comments. Thanks! Please keep in mind, these aren't the ONLY live tourneys we will have, we also have many tourney specials

If you're playing Correspondence (Daily) Chess, you need these tips. They will help you improve, immensely! And for those who don't understand English, here are alternate written directions, which you may translate: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/team-match-rules3 https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/team-matches-slow-down-guys-must-read

Hello. I am NM Coach Bill. I'm here to help this club become one of the best online chess club at Chess.com. If you want to get better at chess, learn from someone with over 50 years chess club experience, and owner of the 3rd largest club on chess.com with over 26,000 members. I offer both premium and free services. Here is the free: https://www.chesscoachbill.com/youtube-more

You've decided you want to help out the club. That's great! If you want to be promoted... first fill out the google form here. Then request to join the HQ by clicking here. We will review your request, and either send you a message welcoming you to the team, or why you won't be able to join the team.

The Pawns Club Rules: Please don't put any offensive/irrelevant material or spam in the club, thanks Please do not advertise in this club. The Pawns Club was meant to be a place to have fun and improve chess skills, not advertise. Don't ask to be promoted in the club, this can be classified as spam. If you want more info about how to be promoted, please view the post here. The first time you break the rules, there will be a warning. The second time you will be muted for 5 days. If you break the rules again, you will be kicked. If you rejoin and break the rules another time, you will be banned. Our goal here at the Pawns Club is to have fun and enjoy chess. We need rules to do that, but they are pretty normal and like most clubs. Thanks for following them

Dear Chess Friends, Chess is a very complex game. It’s not enough if you know the openings very well or you learn a lot of tactical motives. You’ll always miss things if you don’t use a structured thinking method, that’s the basis of everything. I worked out a system what I also use in my own games and that’s what I would like to teach you through a concrete example in this video. You can watch the full video (25 mins) with a FREE subscription on my Patreon channel here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tactical-and-in-121183796?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 use the tactical thinking method (checks, captures, threats) properly      - How to use the strategic thinking method (imbalances connected to the kings, pieces, pawns, weak squares) properly      - How to improve your pieces      - How to attack a castled king      - Beautiful checkmate motives I hope you'll find it useful. If you like it and you want to see my private educational videos, you can subscribe to my Patreon channel. I upload 4-6 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

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

Salut, Anyone else here from Switzerland? Zurich? Limmattal? Schlieren? Regards,Andrew

Hey all,  What games have you been following lately? I'm not sure if Ding can hold the WC this November...

Hey all,  I've been thinking about starting up some more 960 tournaments, instead of our classic position daily matches that we usually have. Any thoughts? 

Hey all, We've got a new 3/day per move daily match https://www.chess.com/club/matches/1671479 as well as a vote chess started up (https://www.chess.com/votechess/game/311013) against the Lengendary Masters of Chess! They're a club of a similar size and skill to us, and so we should be in a good spot to get some good players and win some games! Consider joining if you can; we're playing on the classic opening position.

Hey all!  Hope you all are having a great start to the Labor Day weekend, if you're in the US, or just a relaxing day! The admin team is looking to grow the Pawns club and recruit some more skilled players to join our team. If you're interested and up to this task, you'll be invited to join our admin team, where you'll be able to have an influential presence in the club and direct its proceedings. If this sounds interesting to you, please reach out to me @TheChessDude991! Also, if you know anyone who may be interested, let them know about the opportunity. Thanks all for your support of the club! 

Hey all, We've just won against the Royal Chess Family in Vote Chess! https://www.chess.com/votechess/game/309333 Our goal, of course, is increased participation - what time format is your preferred for vote chess matches?

Have any of your best games of the week? Post them here for analysis, and we'll go over them in detail!

Hello guys! When I prepare some openings and strategy for my students almost everyone tell me: "I need to attack!". Children love tactics, very fast attack and glorious victory. Yes, that is true. Almost everyone enojoy quick victory with some combinations like in Shirov's or Tal's games. Because of that many students think that when you attack you have to go forward. When I create some examples they always looking for such a moves, when they go forward - for example go from rank number 4 to rank number 6 when they play as white. Be careful. When you attack sometimes you have to prepare counterplay and go backward and then push. Have a look! We have much more examples linked to this idea. I prepare three and I hope you now understand, that sometimes if you want to go forward you have to first go back! Another instructive chess topics: EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #1 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #2 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #3 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #4 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #5 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #6 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #7 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #8 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #9 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #10 ANOTHER SERIES OF ARTICLES: POWERFUL PIECES (6 charpters) HOW TO WIN AGAINST GRANDMASTER? (9 charpters) TOO HARD FOR STOCKFISH? ZOBACZ INNE SZACHOWE ARTYKUŁY: SIŁA FIGUR (6 podrozdziałów) ZA TRUDNE DLA STOCKFISHA? PODSTAWY WARIANTU BREYERA W PARTII HISZPAŃSKIEJ

I prepare some materials about improving positional skills. Frankly I just use the method from Mark Dvoretsky's books called positional pictures. Have a look. First of all we have to find an appropriate position from game. Secondly we have to start form the moment when someone plays very creative or use a new idea, which we do not really comprehend. Next we have to write a commentary and write the move order which was played in the game. Then we have to end the exercise. Finally if we gather many examples we could repeat everything before tournament. Too be honest, examples should be short. It is enoughif you find the right position with new or creative idea! I use only 3 methods in my training: I watch as many games of 2700+ as I could. I collect my postional pictures. I play as many blitz, rapid and classic games as I could. The method is slow but it is very powerful if you do it constantly and you want to achieve a goal in a long period of time. I start in 2012 when I have 2150 ELO. In 2017 I achieve FIDE Master title and in 2019 2400+ in rapid and blitz sections and 2370 in classical games. I combine all together just to repeat every exercise linked to positional pictures once again: EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #1 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #2 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #3 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #4 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #5 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #6 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #7 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #8 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #9 EASY IMPROVE YOUR POSITIONAL SKILLS #10 ANOTHER SERIES OF ARTICLES: POWERFUL PIECES (6 charpters) HOW TO WIN AGAINST GRANDMASTER? (9 charpters) TOO HARD FOR STOCKFISH? ZOBACZ INNE SZACHOWE ARTYKUŁY: SIŁA FIGUR (6 podrozdziałów) ZA TRUDNE DLA STOCKFISHA? PODSTAWY WARIANTU BREYERA W PARTII HISZPAŃSKIEJ

I prepare some materials about improving positional skills. Frankly I just use the method from Mark Dvoretsky's books called positional pictures. Have a look. First of all we have to find an appropriate position from game. Secondly we have to start form the moment when someone plays very creative or use a new idea, which we do not really comprehend. Next we have to write a commentary and write the move order which was played in the game. Then we have to end the exercise. Finally if we gather many examples we could repeat everything before tournament. Too be honest, examples should be short. It is enoughif you find the right position with new or creative idea! I use only 3 methods in my training: I watch as many games of 2700+ as I could. I collect my postional pictures. I play as many blitz, rapid and classic games as I could. The method is slow but it is very powerful if you do it constantly and you want to achieve a goal in a long period of time. I start in 2012 when I have 2150 ELO. In 2017 I achieve FIDE Master title and in 2019 2400+ in rapid and blitz sections and 2370 in classical games. TAGS: 1.Fighting for white squares ANOTHER SERIES OF ARTICLES: POWERFUL PIECES (6 charpters) HOW TO WIN AGAINST GRANDMASTER? (9 charpters) TOO HARD FOR STOCKFISH? ZOBACZ INNE SZACHOWE ARTYKUŁY: SIŁA FIGUR (6 podrozdziałów) ZA TRUDNE DLA STOCKFISHA? PODSTAWY WARIANTU BREYERA W PARTII HISZPAŃSKIEJ