Sacrificing a queen for a quick checkmate is always fun, but there’s a lot to be said for sacrificing a pawn in the opening that leads to a winning endgame. The positional sacrifice may not get as ...
Last November, in round eight of the Arab Women’s Chess Championship, Abu Dhabi-raised chess player Rouda Alserkal had a realization. If she won the match, she’d earn enough points to be named a Woman ...
It is autumn in earnest, Keats’ “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” and a columnist’s fancy naturally turns to thoughts of positional chess. It’s no secret most chess players are attracted to ...
A day after he made a positional error and failed tackle the tactical moves of three-time World No 2 Vassily Ivanchuk, city's only Grandmaster Raunak Sadhwani fought ...
In the intellectually grueling game of competitive chess, Annie Wang,16, the top U.S. women’s player in her age group, has a style of play that is both aggressive and tactical. She sets the tone of a ...