Halloween is coming up! This week we’ll learn how to force a draw with the Philidor, then play ghost chess! This is for ChessKid Ellie. Philidor and Lucena a…
This would be a bad move for White’s first turn, do you see why?
A lot of kids don’t like seeing their opponents play 1. d4 when they are black. Why? It’s slower and less exciting than 1. e4, plus it’s less common, so most…
Your „bad“ light-squared bishop can be developed with Bc8-d7-e8-h5 (the most common
Professor: Howdy, class. Here the class responded with a collective “hi.” Professor: We have a new class member being added to our roster today. …
Black has no choice but to play a bad move. Thomas: Nice going, Idris.
Hello! As stated in my previous article, I will be focusing on chess strategy. Especially among scholastic players, I have noticed the tendency to flounder a…
Bg5, keeping black’s bad piece on the board, also following the third principle.
Good day ChessKids! There are a lot of great questions on our forum. Many of you have questions about the opening. In general, I suggest just doing CDC and n…
That does NOT make the opening bad.
A question and answer column by National Master Andy Lee Q: In my most recent tournament, my opponent offered me a draw. How do I know whether or not t…
Don’t feel bad about taking a draw if you feel sick or tired, if you are sure that
You’ll never make a bad trade again if you watch this video.
Getting home from Greece, I felt like I had face planted right into the ground! Definitely not running at that point!! I couldn’t believe h…
It wasn’t that bad going there….of course some of it may have been caused from coming
WIM Alice Lee won the Girl U-12 section of the 2021 FIDE Online Cadets and Youth Rapid Super Final in December 2021. This is her third consecutive world cadet championship, after two previous World Cadet wins (Girl U-12 in 2020 and Girls U-10 in 2019).
In the second game, I had a bad position out of the opening, and she played well
This is a quick guide to a video series: This series is for beginner and intermediate players; both can watch the whole thing. The series lays out the very b…
First up is: realizing a piece is on a bad square and moving it to a better one.
