National Master Jim McLaughlin looks at X-ray attacks and pawn wedges. X-rays are when the effect of a queen, rook, or bishop is felt beyond its immediate attack. A pawn wedge is a passed pawn in the middlegame that cramps the opponent's position.
2018.01.23
Over the final weekend of January 2018, the Saint Louis Chess Club hosted an event called “Chess Like It Oughta Be”. The tournament was 5 rounds with a time control of Game in 40 minutes with a 5 second delay.
Last school year, Columbia Elementary welcomed the Saint Louis Chess Club into their school by way of a single instructor, who is referred to with endearment as Queen Thomas. With an everyday assignment of sharing chess with grades 1-6, Queen Thomas and the school began their journey together.
Grandmaster Josh Friedel shows Anatoly Karpov's impressive victory as Black against top American Gata Kamsky at the 1991 Linares tournament. See how Karpov completely shuts down any aggression before Kamsky can even begin.
2018.01.23
Gata Kamsky vs Anatoly Karpov, Linares 9th (1991): E41 Nimzo-Indian, e3, Huebner variation
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1066610
National Master Jim McLaughlin analyzes a model game for the Breyer Variation of the Ruy Lopez: Dmitry Kokarev-Peter Svidler from the 2016 Russian Championship. Understand the reasons behind each move in the main line.
Grandmaster Josh Friedel shares his favorites game from Paul Keres, the Estonian grandmaster whom many consider to be the greatest player to never have been world champion. Learn why not to trade from "Paul the Second's" game against Max Euwe.
2018.01.18
Max Euwe vs Paul Keres, FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948): C75 Ruy Lopez, modern Steinitz defence, Rubinstein variation
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1042700
Learn the answers to the Facebook and Twitter chess puzzles from January!
Grandmaster Josh Friedel looks at the flexible pawn structure seen in Peter Svidler-Hou Yifan from Wijk aan Zee 2018. It started as a Carlsbad pawn structure but changed.
2018.01.18
Peter Svidler vs Yifan Hou, Tata Steel (2018): D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin variation
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1908535
On Saturday, January 20th, the Saint Louis Chess Club held its first scholastic tournament of 2018. Following the excitement of the new year, many students joined in to play in their first ever chess tournament, resulting in a total of 193 players that gathered at Adams Elementary in Tower Grove to battle for chess supremacy.
Grandmaster Josh Friedel shows his strategically-complex game against GM Fabien Libiszewski of France at the 2017 Washington International. The moral of his story: if you don't know what to move, just don't make your position worse!
2018.01.16
Joshua E Friedel vs. Fabien Libiszewski, 2017: E62 King's Indian, fianchetto, Uhlmann (Szabo) variation
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/washington-international-2...
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