Part 3 of the first New In Chess Masterclass is now available as a free video on YouTube. Grandmaster Matthew Sadler shows an incredible engine game from 2020 between Leela Zero and Stockfish, showcasing an amazing long-term sacrifice. Fortunately, our commentator Matthew Sadler is probably the world’s greatest expert on engine chess, and one of the very few people who can explain to club players what they can learn from these chess engines.
This game is one of 45 games in the book The Most Exciting Chess Games ever. The first video, part 1, is 45 minutes, and the other parts are around 30 minutes each.
As chess fans, we are lucky that so many chess players like to write, and that even World Champions or Challengers, such as Kasparov and Timman, have put in the effort to create wonderful chess books.Life at Play, published today by New in Chess, is destined to become one of those classic chess books written by one of the legends of the game. Life at Play is the memoir of American-Czech Grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek (1943-2021) who was born in Czechoslovakia, fled his home country in 1968, and eventually settled in the United States. He won numerous strong tournaments, was a three-time US Chess Champion, and played brilliant chess.An example from the book is his famous queen sacrifice against Lajos Portisch, played in Wijk aan Zee in 1975, with notes by Kavalek.
Kavalek was not only a strong Grandmaster but a prolific writer as well, and he reached millions of chess fans with his much-acclaimed columns in the Washington Post and the Huffington Post.His memoir was years in175
New In Chess magazine #7 has been published and is available for everybody to enjoy. The Elephant in the Room is of course addressed in our extensive reports on the Julius Baer Generation Cup and the Sinquefield Cup. Genna Sosonko is back and looks at a ‘stunning’ move from the World Championship of 1969. Besides that, we have our usual contribtors James Altucher, Judit Polgar, Matthew Sadler and Jan Timman. And much more!
The silent move heard round the worldPlaying sparkling, bone-crushing chess, Magnus Carlsen won the Julius Baer Generation Cup, the seventh leg of the Meltwater Champions Tour, with a record score. Yet, it was a game that he didn’t play, a one and a half move ‘loss’ to Hans Niemann, that made headlines. Following his withdrawal from the Sinquefield Cup, the champion staged another silent protest that was heard around the world. JONATHAN TISDALL saw the drama develop and gives his analysis. There’s riveting chess too...
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Part 2 of the first New In Chess Masterclass is now available. Grandmaster Matthew Sadler shows how World Champion Anatoly Karpov beats Arthur Yusupov in a positional masterpiece. The game was played in Moscow in 1983 in the Championship of the Soviet Union. Karpov plays at his super-subtle best and his strategy is a prime example of ‘prophylactic thinking.
This game is one of 45 in the book The Most Exciting Chess Games ever. The first video, part 1, is 45 minutes, and the other parts are around 30 minutes each.
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The first New In Chess Masterclass is now available as a free video on YouTube. Grandmaster Matthew Sadler, my favorite chess commentator, shows four games from the new book The Most Exciting Chess Games ever. The first video is 45 minutes, the other three are around 30 minutes each.
The book is a collection of games nominated by chess greats and chess experts, such as Anand, Shirov, and Ivanchuk, and authors and commentators such as Jeremy Silman, Jennifer Shahade, and Tania Sachdev in the column Just Checking in New In Chess magazine. If these experts nominate a game as ‘the most exciting’ they have ever seen, we are in for a treat. This collection is not about chess improvement, but about enjoyment.
Part 1 features the game Emanuel Berg versus Evgeny Bareev, played in 2005 in Gothenburg. It is a brilliant sacrificial attack. Please have a look at Part 1. The other parts will be published in the next few days.
Studying the endgame and improving your knowledge of the ‘third phase’ in a chess game will bring you many extra half or even full points.
As Herman Grooten says: 'In endgames, the difference between a half and a full point sometimes depends on an apparently minuscule detail. And isn’t that what we are always doing – playing for a half or a full point?'
After the success of his award-winning classics, Chess Strategy for Club Players and Attacking Chess for Club Players Grooten has now written an equally instructive 480-pages endgame manual.
He explains a lot of basics, in an entertaining style. He shows for example a number of fortresses:
But Grooten most importantly teaches you how to understand the themes of an endgame and find the right moves based on your understanding. Building on his experience as a player and coach, Grooten takes an original approach to convey his message: the endgames are divided according to a theme, not chess material. This is a novel, but very effective way to175
Our bestselling book Improve Your Chess Calculation by coach Ramesh is now available as a video and a MoveTrainer course on our sister-website Chessable.Practically every player above beginner level can understand what makes a tactic or combination work - on paper, at least. But coming up with these tactics and combinations is a practiced skill. It takes accurate visualization and pattern recognition. It takes finding appropriate candidate moves and possible responses from your opponent in all variations. It takes speed and confidence to execute these decisions without getting into time trouble.Every single time, game after game. And the perfect course to instill such a mindset and calculation process in you is Improve Your Chess Calculation by GM Ramesh R.B.Â
GM Ramesh is one of the most highly-respected chess trainers today and has helped players such as Praggnanandhaa, Daniel Naroditsky, and Adhiban Baskaran reach the top.Please have a look at this wonderful course on175
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