Anya Taylor-Joy - 'The Queen's Gambit' Backstage Speech - 2021 Emmy Awards
Queen's Gambit wins 11 Emmy awards!
Magnus Carlsen's TOP SECRET LONDON SYSTEM move order recipe
Magnus Carlsen helped popularise a novel move order in the London system which later became "standar…
A beautiful variation behind the scenes of a Mikhail Tal game
In analysing a Tal game recently against Roman Dzindzichashvili I found something unexpected!
Kingscrusher in top 50 - lichess Bullet Titled Arena - September 2021
Studying Mikhail Tal may have helped my bullet chess a little :)
Queen's Gambit Traps to be aware of
If you ever experiment with 1.d4 then here are some essential traps to know about
The irreversible decisions of the chess board - pawns cannot go backwards!
Think very careful when moving pawns forward as you cannot reverse those moves!
My arch rivals for tournament points .....
A very interesting lichess records and statistics site. This blog acts as a bookmark for me but you …
Fifth Women's world champion sues Netflix for Queen's Gambit episode inaccuracy
Chess players often love accuracy. It seems Netflix might have committed an "inaccuracy" in one of t…
Accumulating "compatible" advantages to current advantages
Steinitz brought to the chess world the notion of "accumulating advantages" - but should we be more …
Chess Calculation: Try not to calculate anything! Magnus Carlsen example
The importance of being lazy! - An interesting example where Magnus Carlsen bypasses the opponent's …
Lichess Game Puzzles
Check your own Game Puzzles at Lichess - fun link
The up and downsides of the "Hanging pawns" structure
The "Hanging pawns" structure can create quite a lot of complex dynamic play as this Mikhail Tal exa…
Fun and Aggressive Kingscrushing systems against those pesky Caro-Kann players
Looking for some dangerous weapons against the Caro-Kann? Look no further than here :)
Is the Bishop pair overrated?
World Champion's battle - Tigran Petrosian has the bishop pair but Mikhail Tal has soft spot pressur…
Taking away King escape squares creates good luck
As Capablanca saids "A good player is always lucky" - which begs the question - can we create luck?
When can the threat of a threat of mate in 1 justified?
The level of sophistication of playing a quiet move can sometimes be justified in a spectacular way