King against King and Rook, King and Bishops against King and Queen and King against King. When You start to study chess, the first thing you should do, is to familiarize yourself with the power of the pieces. This can best bedone by le...
Today I had a coaching session with Dave and we analyzed one of his games. I think it was a nice example which showed how to win with an open file, so I decided to annotate and share it with You. Open file and penetration squares When there ...
Today I was teaching one of my students Raphael. He lives in Tokyo, but oroginally from France. He played only one game between our last and today's lesson, but that game was so good, I decided to share it with you. Everything worked out so nice...
In chess, a decoy is a tactic that lures an enemy man off its square and away from its defensive role. Typically this means away from a square on which it defends another piece or threat. The tactic is also called a deflection. Usually the piece i...
The Art of Asha by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely is a book about the spiritual origin of chess. I would like to share the old persian legend about how the Art of Asha was created. "The word chess derives from the Persian "Shah," meaning King, ...
In the last 30 years I was very interested about the meaning of life. What is our ultimate goal? Where did we come from? I read hundreds of books from many spiritual teachers and many different religions and scientists. I decided to research and...
Yesterday I played only one game and tested the h4 variation in the Scotch Opening. My opponent suprised me with the early g6 move to prepare Bg7 to attack quickly my e5 pawn. I panicked and played the passive Nd2-f3 manover to give him time to ...
Yesterday was the first day after the Olympiad Expo Classic tourney in which I participated in the last 10 days and got 4th place. I was teaching 5 hours and had only time for 1 game on my road to 2500. I fianchettoed my bishop against t...
Yesterday I played the 9th, the final game of the tourney against the Hungarian talent Kristof Horvath. He is from Miskolc, he city where I lived 5 years and we won the Hungarian team championship 4 times. I played the Catalan opening and got...
Today I played with Victor Hugo Collado, a young player originally from Peru, currently living in France and working as an elementry teacher. He started with 1.b3 the Larsen opening, but soon, he played Nf3, g3, Bg2 to go to the Reti op...
Today I played with the Hungarian International Master Andras Meszaros. He was the junior coach of Judit and Sofia Polgar and the young Hungarian Grandmaster Benjamin Gledura. He is a very good tactical player, as you will see also in our gam...
Today I played with Sandor Sztojka from Ukraine. He played the Smith-Morra gambit which I declined and moved to the Alapin Sicilian. He played a bad move Nc3 where I made a mistake. If I would exchange queens and develop quickly then I would had t...
Yesterday We had a rest day in the Olympiad Expo Classic Tournament and I decided to play in the Titled Tuesday Tourney. In the first round I played with Gothamchess, Levy Rozman the biggest chess youtuber. Ha suprised me with the Scandinavia...
Yesterday I played with the 14 years old hungarian talent Bence Baki. I played the Bf4 line against the queen's gambit declined. I played c4-c5 to gain space. He exchanged the a- and b-pawns and minor pieces on the queenside. I got space advantage...
Today I played with the best player from Nepal, Candidate Master Bibek Thing. He played the Spanish opening and I replied with the old steinitz defense, where black plays very solidly d6, Bd7. We both missed an opening trap where I could lose...
Today I played with Manfredi La Barbera from Italy, a young talented player. He played 4...Nge7 against the Ruy Lopez to suprise me. I became too optimistic and played Ba3 to force his f8 rook the the good e8 square, because I wanted to attac...
Today I played against Mohamed Saeed Laily, a young talented player from the United Arab Emirates. He played the exchange variation of the slav defense with a kingside pawn storm. I made a mistake and I was forced to sacrifice a pawn to stop ...
The Chess olympiad started yesrterday in Budapest, Hungary. There are many side events. I joined to Olympiad Expo Classic, which is a 9 round swiss tournament with players from 12 countries. My oponent was a 10 years old hungarian talent Almos...
Yesterday I solved many puzzles from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpecker-method/course/10582/ You can solve the exercises and watch the games wi...
Yesterday I started my training pretty late, but still went well. I solved 7 puzzles from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpecker-method/course/10582/ ...
Yesterday I went for a Pilgrimage with my wife and friends. We arrived home late and I decided to have a short training session. 1 solved 3 exercises from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www...
Yesterday I played 2 games and solved 10 exercises from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpecker-method/course/10582/ You can solve the exercises and watch the ...
Yesterday I played a simul against 5 strong players with the 20+10 time control and I won 4 and lost 1 game. Then I solved 10 exercises from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.ch...
Yesterday I had a quick training session. I solved 11 exercises from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpecker-method/course/10582/ In the first game m...
Yesterday finally I went over the starting rating by winning both games I played. You can watch the full session of training and playing: I started to training by solving 14 puzzles from the book the Woodpecker method . You can also ...
