The worldwide situation of the past few months has also had a massive impact on the game of chess. The traditional game shifted from the board to the digital world, and the boom is real. Some players are so enthusiastic about this change that they want to participate in the matches online and stream them to the audience in the…
The past year gave us many surprising trends that no one would have expected. First of all, there is the retreat into their own home, which prompts people to become interested in cooking difificult dishes and baking bread. Online shopping got even more significant, and the streaming providers were happy about a rush of new customers. But the wave of…
In this post, we’re going to step back in time to September 1, 1972, when the “Match of the Century” pitted American Bobby Fischer against Russia Boris Spassky. The match received more publicity than any other in the history of the game. Fischer, the 29-year-old from Brooklyn, became the first U.S.A. representative to win the competition since its 1866 inception.…
Wilhelm Steinitz The champion, also known as Austrian Morphy, made a huge contribution to the modern game. In 1873, Steinitz showed us what was then a unique positional playing style. This was regarded as being cowardly as it was a far cry from an all-out attacking style. Steinitz also offered some highly influential writings and thoughts and is now often…
Many a great player has sat behind a chessboard, but, as in any competitive activity, some players are better than others. Below are some of the biggest legends in the history of chess. It’s difficult to compare players from different eras by rating, due to rating inflation, so these are players who really dominated the competition in their respective eras.…
Effective pruning is crucial to making sure that we only consider the best moves. People are believed to be skilled at spotting the best moves in a position. We must also ask how larger we should grow the tree. Of course, time constraints that come with tournament play limit our choice. At the same time, we shouldn’t stop during a…
In order to claim victory against a chess computer, you’ll need to understand which aspects of playing games computers are superior at over humans, an ability to predict what they might not be able to work out, and a general understanding of how they think. Since Gary Kasparov’s defeat at the hands of Deep Blue, it has become clear that…
If you have designs on becoming a chess champion, you’ll have to be realistic enough to realise that it won’t happen overnight. You’ll need to prepare to get your head down and invest lots of time into practising and learning. Here are 6 tips you can use in the early stages of your learning development. Learn what each piece can…
Often thrown in to the same category as they are both classic historied tabletop strategy games, Go and Chess do cross over in several aspects, and yet the play of each game does make for a remarkably different experience. Unlike chess with its origins in India and the modern game pieces we recognise today coming into existence in the 15th…
Many years after our society was huddled in caves, now that we live in a complex technological environment, do the gender roles imposed on our previous lifestyle still make a difference today? Even if there is no genetic predisposition involved in the ability of females to compete at the same level in a game like chess, the structures we have…