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Playing chess can help kids' thinking process People of all ages enjoy playing chess, but does it make you smarter? Some may wonder about this, and we are here to say "yes, it does!" We think kids do think more strategically after a chess game. A mathematical practices teacher commented about chess for us. "Every move is a new problem, a problem that you need to solve," said Ms. Kathy Neumann, ou r teacher. Kidsday reporter Aditya is a kid in our class who is really good at playing chess. He even goes to a chess club. He says, "I think that chess is a good game for people of all ages because it helps kids think better and improve their skills. When I play chess, I use all of the principles that my [chess] master taught me to use. I have improved in my thinking, and I have won against many people." Ms. Neumann talked to us about the importance of chess. She said, "Many schools all over the country have chess teams because they know that chess h

I finally managed to defeat WGM to whom I lost many games and was unable to win...Special thanks to my slow net and her wonderful skills

Preparing for a Game WGM   Natalia_Pogonina   Share on favorites Share on twitter More Sharing Services 6 Here and there we hear all types of things about “home prep”, but how do grandmasters prepare for their games in real life? The pre-game stage is often as important as the game itself. So, what is the most efficient way of preparing for your next chess match? Let’s say you have looked up the pairings for the next day and found out who your opponent is. Different people have different approaches to the preparation stage. Let’s review the main ones.   1. Preparing in the evening After returning from the game, you continue the chess work by preparing for the next game. The next morning you will only refresh and memorize the variations you have chosen in advance. Pros: your head won’t get too tired before the game. Cons: preparation requires a lot of energy. In the evening you are likely to be tired and miss something. Moreover, it will prevent you from takin

Are you not ready for tournaments and always lose badly? Here, this tips from http://www.geocities.com/kidlat121/chess/articles/tournprep.htm  can help. Tournament Preparation for Amateurs Recently on several chess discussion forums, players have asked how to prepare for tournaments. As a result of this, I have provided some common sense tips for players which I think most amateurs can apply to their own preparation. First, I want to mention that preparing for tournaments is a little different than playing a casual game with a friend or blitz games on the internet. There are more players involved and the stakes are usually higher. Therefore, players may get a little more nervous than usual when playing. Therefore, some of my recommendations revolve around this aspect. In any case, here are my recommendations. Before the Tournament 1.  Tactics : I believe that this is perhaps the best thing that a beginning or intermediate player can practice before a tournament (or anytime)

Its was a blitz 3+1 game..I won on time but i think I am still winning after missing some good moves

THE OPENING 1.) Use a Stylistic Bias Sheet to determine which openings will suit you best as you form your repertoire. 2.) Have a definite opening repertoire. 3.) Stick with it - don't "hop around". 4.) Otherwise, you will not understand the typical middlegame pawn-structures that arise from standard openings. 5.) Study the opening repertoire that you do have very thoroughly. 6.) In casual, postal, e-mail, I.C.C., computer and blitz play, it is fine to look at other openings in order to avoid getting stale and "in a rut", but for your serious games it is essential to specialize, specialize, SPECIALIZE! 7.) Remember: if you have 100 hours to spend in study, it is far better to spend 25 hours each on 4 different lines than 4 hours each on 25 different lines. 8.) Specialization also facilitates analogous thinking which helps you to orient yourself in unfamiliar opening / early middlegame situations. 9.) There are vastly more books written on chess

                                                                                                                                       White to play Can White win in this position ??

The game I want to present was played at Moscow Open Tournament in 2008 . Both players are not the best players of the world but still I found the game  quite instructive.Please study the game carefully and try to calculate at crucial moments.                                                                         Black to play White has just played Ne3.Its Black's move.Calculate carefully and check your calculation with analysis below. But Sadly Black played differently.  Black to play  What's wrong with this move?  How will you take advantage of the white's last inaccurate move ? Black is a piece up..And now should not give counterplay to White.Its just a matter of technique..Watch the technique of Black.                                                                                                                          Black to Play Black's all pieces are at there best square.White has created a passer.Black has to f

Hello reader !! Sorry for not posting this days...Was busy with my personal stuff, so was not able to post.So here I am with lots of positions and with lots of food for your brain..White to play in all positions...Find the best continuation.

                                                                Black to play Here in this position its Black's move.So lets try to understand what's going on in the following position : White has just played 21 Rxd5  Black's Queen is under attack.If Black does not moves his Queen White will happily capture the Queen winning the Queen for nothing. White's rook on c1 is the only unsupported piece on the board which might be vulnerable to some tactics.Always Remember L.P.D.F which stands for Loose Piece Drops Off !! White has pawns on h2,g2,f2 which might make his back rank vulnerable. Black does not have the bishop on g7, which might make his king weak too.White also has a hidden threat of playing the rook on d6 (with idea of Qf6) or d7 (with idea of Rf7) when Black moves his Queen White now has a threat of capturing the Queen..So in order to deal with the threat Black has to                    1.Move his Queen to some safe square might be on Qb6.

                                                           White to play  The first position I want to show is from Chinmay Kelaskar vs Jai Pradhan game....White has all sorts of attack on the king. Most white's pieces are actively taking part in the attack...Black king does not have a proper defender except the bishop on g7.In the game black made the previous move h6 which was a mistake.... White played Nxh6 and won !! but there is a better continuation....Can you find it out ? Second game is also from the same player Chinmay..and he is black this time...Can you find out what he played in the game ?

                                                                Black to play The position occured from King's Indian Defence where White just won a rook in the corner, but carelessly let the black pawns advance on the kingside, and so he is about to feel the pain! How can Black punish white ? How will Black start the attack ?

                                                            White to Play In this position white seems to be lost as he cannot play Qd5+ as after Kh8 white will loose a piece and on Nxd5 Black will take the pawn on f2 followed by Qg3 which will be winning for him...So the question remains. Is White lost ? Should he resign ? [position for advanced beginners]

Khanty Masiysk (Russia): Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand will start his campaign against top seed Levon Aronian of Armenia in the first round of Candidates chess tournament. After a first round with white against Aronian, the Indian will have two black games to negotiate against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan. The eight-player super tournament will decide the next challenger for world champion Magnus Carlsen later in the year. The event will be played under Classical time control with 120 minutes for the first 40 moves and 60 minutes for the next 20. If the game still continues the sudden death time control will come in to effect giving both players 15 minutes each with a 30 second increment from move 61. For Anand, Aronian has posed some real challenges in the past and the five times world champion is expected to be cautious against the rating favourite. Post that two black games means Anand will get a good chance to get in to the gro

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   White to move This position was give to me by Chinmay Kelaskar and is for intermediate level...Can you find a way to win for White ? No cheating please ! Please comment your answers in the comment box on blog

I have posted a lot of positions here.So I decided to take some rest, stop posting and concentrate on my game...I tried to solve many position..did some routine work and came to facebook. My friend asked me to come on chesscube..I told him that I will be there within five minutes I logged my chesscube account after many days..My friend was not online there so I decided to play some games against some one else !. Here is the position I got in the game after a few moves. Lets have a look Black to play The time control was 5 minutes each..And White just wasted his move with 13.Kh1?? Just look at the black pieces my all pieces are well played and such waste moves are looking for some big trouble..I agree black's king has not castled yet so I decided to castle first Pinning the knight of d2..So my first question here is what would happen if white takes the bishop by 14.hxg4. Can you find without watching below analysis ? But my opponent didn't play this move.I gues

                                       White to play and win This position was composed by the ex-women world champion Judith Polgar in 1997 and it is recommended to advance level.I was solving some random positions at midnight and this position stuck me...My intuition gave me the first move but unable to calculate the whole variation.Can you calculate all the correct variations and comment below?

White to play Here in this position White has a rook for three pawns and therefore has a material advantage but the problem is that Black pawns are close enough to Queen so how white going to stop the pawns? Can he will be able to stop it and manage to save the game? Please give your answers below