18/10/2017 – Nuestro autor Siegfried Hornecker quiere resolver un enigma y necesita ayuda. Larissa Volpert, en sus tiempos profesora de Filología y maestra de ajedrez, falleció en Nueva York el 1 de octubre de 2017 a la edad de 91 años. Un fragmento de una revista de ajedrez soviética de 1961 permite un vistazo a uno de sus triunfos más grandes. Se trata de un final de torre que es tan elegante que podría ser un auténtico problema de ajedrez compuesto por un experto. ¿Sería el resto de la partida igual de inspiradora?
06/03/2017 – El año pasado, el GM indio Abhijeet Gupta nos mostró un estudio en el que un caballo defendía todo un reino. Los caballos pueden ser muy poderosos en la situación adecuada, pero resultan igual de sorprendentes cuando se trata del dominar piezas, construir fortalezas, hacer horquillas al rey y la dama o incluso ayudando a dar y asestando el mate de la coz. Siegfried Hornecker lo muestra en su columna mensual sobre estudios de ajedrez.
05/02/2017 – En nuestro estudio anterior, vimos lo fuertes que son los peones. El tema se amplía ahora con tres posiciones, dos de partidas y un estudio de dos prolíficos compositores de ajedrez de Georgia. En el estudio, a las blancas les gustaría que su peón pudiera retroceder. Como eso no está permitido por la reglas del ajedrez, tienen que coronarlo y luego mover la dama o torre a la casilla que el peón no podía ocupar. Ideas destacadas y sorprendentes estudios...
04/01/2017 – A propuesta de dos amigos creadores de problemas de ajedrez, John Nunn y Yochanan Afek, damos comienzo a una columna mensual para mostrar la belleza artística de los estudios de ajedrez. Se trata de un género en el que los autores pueden enseñar la belleza de las estructuras e ideas que casi nunca suelen ocurrir en los torneos de ajedrez. Hemos aceptado con mucho gusto la oferta del compositor alemán de problemas de ajedrez, Siegfried Hornecker. Para disfrutar...
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Looking for a realistic way to play for a win with Black against 1.e4 without taking unnecessary risks? The Taimanov Sicilian is a reliable system, and hence one of the best options out there!
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Looking for a realistic way to play for a win with Black against 1.e4 without taking unnecessary risks? The Taimanov Sicilian is a reliable system, and hence one of the best options out there!
Have you always wanted to play the Sicilian as Black, but been discouraged by the abundance of options for White? Here is the solution to becoming a lifelong successful Sicilian player!
Looking for a realistic way to play for a win with Black against 1.e4 without taking unnecessary risks? The Taimanov Sicilian is a reliable system, and hence one of the best options out there!
The main part of the material on which the French Powerbook 2024 is based comes from the playchess.com engine room: 730,000 games. An impressive number to which 90,000 games from correspondence chess and the Mega were added.
The French Defence Powerbase 2024 is a database and contains 10.846 games from the Mega 2024 and the Correspondence Database 2024, 707 of which are annotated.
Doesn’t every chess game get decided by mistakes? Absolutely. But most players never truly comprehend that they are making the same kind of mistakes over and over again.
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