A piece can give check even when it is pinned. This is the main “exception” to the rule that a pinned piece cannot move. The reason is, your pinned piece ...

When playing heads-up, it’s usually best to use a polarized strategy. However, if your opponent has an extremely low fold-to-3-bet frequency, then you sho...

The Reti is a solid opening choice that usually yields a long, strategic battle. The player who better understands the typical structures and plans will m...

Online poker plays considerably faster than live poker, and some who prefer playing online find the live game too tedious to tolerate. Whereas you might b...

HOW BOUNTY TOURNAMENTS WORK. Bounty tournaments will generally split the initial buy-in into two pools; one is the normal prize payouts, while the second ...

If the knight is close to the king, it is hard to win with a rook. That’s because the knight will fend off the enemy pieces that try to approach the king....

Just like in regular chess, pawns promote when they reach a player’s eighth rank. If captured, that queen only yields one point to the player who takes it...

In friendly games most players still announce “check”. However announcing “check” is not required under the rules of chess and it is usually not done in f...

Garry Kasparov (W) v Veselin Topalov, Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands), 1999. Why do I never get better at chess?3. Bad habits. Most of us have a list of bad ha...

Chess hasn’t been solved and it won’t be in the next decades (barring ridiculous computing advancement involving quantum computing or such drastic changes...