March 2018 Chess Puzzle Answer Key
Check out the answers to our 2018 March chess puzzles. New chess puzzles posted every Sunday on our Facebook and Twitter accounts (@STLChessClub).
Check out the answers to our 2018 March chess puzzles. New chess puzzles posted every Sunday on our Facebook and Twitter accounts (@STLChessClub).
Eight players compete in a double round robin in Berlin to determine who challenges Magnus Carlsen for the 2018 World Championship. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley, and WGM Jen Shahade for the move-by-move.
2018.03.24
USChessChamps.com
Eight players compete in a double round robin in Berlin to determine who challenges Magnus Carlsen for the 2018 World Championship. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley, and WGM Jen Shahade for the move-by-move.
2018.03.23
USChessChamps.com
Eight players compete in a double round robin in Berlin to determine who challenges Magnus Carlsen for the 2018 World Championship. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley, and WGM Jen Shahade for the move-by-move.
2018.03.22
USChessChamps.com
Grandmaster Sam Shankland previews his book "Small Steps to Giant Improvement: Master Pawn Play in Chess." Shankland demonstrates a key point of his book: pawns cannot move backwards. Buy his book at SamShankland.com.
National Master Nick Karlow explains the importance of understanding who's the "old man" in chess. Also, hear from Ayden Huang and Iris Zhou.
2018.03.09
Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian looks at a game that late Ukrainian GM Eduard Gufeld called his "Mona Lisa." Appreciate this classic King's Indian game where Gufeld had black against Vladimir Bagirov.
National Master Jim McLaughlin explains the theory behind the Chigorin variation of the Ruy Lopez. Jim also explains some of the basic opening principles, and why black can get away with breaking some of them.
2018.01.29
Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian shows his game against Vietnamese GM Nguyen from the 2017 World Rapid Championship. See the crucial moments in this game where passed pawns were the focal point.
2018.03.01
Varuzhan Akobian vs Ngoc Truongson Nguyen, World Rapid Championship (2017): D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, classical, 6...a6
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1904157
International Master Vitaly Neimer dissects the end of Karen Grigorian vs. Viktor Kupreichik from the 1975 Soviet Team Championship. See what should have been played, sacrificed, and traded.
2018.02.27
Karen Ashotovich Grigorian vs Viktor Kupreichik, 13th Soviet Team-ch qual group 2 (1975)
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1087188