Naiditsch, Arkadij - Rapport, Richard  76th Tata Steel Masters 2014.01.26 For Naiditsch the tournament was too short: after starting with 1,5 out of 9 he won his las...

Dominguez Perez, Leinier - Aronian, Levon 76th Tata Steel Chess Masters 2014.01.25 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.d3 ( No surprises. Aronian plays th...

Aronian, Levon - Karjakin, Sergey 76th Tata Steel Masters 2014.01.23 A very important game between the number 1 and 2 in the standings! 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3...

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Hi everyone! I hope y'all are enjoying the top quality games from this year's Tata Steel Tournament so far. After much perusal and musing, I've come up with a second set...

Game analysis of Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2014 Renowned grand master Erwin l’Ami will analyze the best game of that day daily during the event. http://chessity....

Dominguez Perez, Leinier - So, Wesley 76th Tata Steel Masters 2014.01.21 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 The Petroff-defence. An opening that was long considered to 'refute' 1.e4, ...

Nakamura, Hikaru - Van Wely, Loek 76th Tata Steel Chess Masters 2014.01.19 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g4!? Diagram #1 Even before the black ...

Dominguez Perez, Leinier - Nakamura, Hikaru  76th Tata Steel Chess Masters 2014.01.18 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 The Berlin Wall, an opening that seems to be includ...

Nakamura, Hikaru - Karjakin, Sergey  76th Tata Steel Masters 2014.01.17 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 Ne4 ( Lately 6...O-O has been all the ra...

Hi everyone! As promised earlier here are the solutions to the puzzles, with some thoughts on how we miss opportunities and make wrong decisions. Please feel free to lea...

Several years ago I decided to reach about 1750ish before turning 50 years old. That goal will be hard to reach for different reasons. First of all: I have no time for OT...

Karjakin, Sergey - Rapport, Richard 76th Tata Steel Masters 2014.01.15 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qc7 7.Qg4 f6 It is no longer a surprise tha...

Greetings everyone! I'm Grandmaster Julio Sadorra and I would like to present you some puzzles I derived from the master games at the ongoing 2014 Wijk Aan Zee. These pu...

Is it difficult for you solving exercises without a theme classification? You don't know where you need to look. When you are playing a game, what are the signals for yo...