Executive Director’s Blog

We started our discussion of Novikov-Jacimovic from this position, with White to play: White decided to win a pawn with 10.Bxf4? exf4 11.Qxf4,

Last time, I asked you what you would play for White in this position: I’m going to tell you the engine’s top three

Today we are going to focus on an interesting moment from the opening of a different game in the USA-North Macedonia match. This

Welcome to our last installment in analysis of Ehlvest-Nedev from the World Senior Championship. We will finish analyzing some variations that remained hidden

Refreshing your memory: Our study of Ehlvest-Nedev started from this position. Ehlvest played the fantastic breakthrough 20.e5!. I asked you to try to

Last time, I asked you to think about what to play in this position: Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest peaked at World #5 in the

It’s amazing how much high quality chess is being played at any given moment, all over the world. Many of you will be

After White chose an incorrect recapture on c3, we left off with this position last time. Black is up a pawn with very

Last time, I asked you White should recapture in the following position: In the game, White erroneously captured with the pawn, 35.bxc3? –

Continuing on the theme of piece exchanges, today we have a game between Brookfield (Guernsey) and Berthaut (Monaco), from the 2025 European Championship

Last time, we concluded that in the following position, Black shouldn’t exchange their knight on e5 for White’s light squared bishop. I asked

Last time, I asked you to come up with a move for Black in the following position. Implicit in the task was deciding