| General Chess Discussion - Who is your favourite chess player?#4 It's very hard to choose one. I agree with DoomedBishop about Mikhail Tal and I think his book The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal is a must read for every chess player. The book is so entertaining! Of … | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - Amsterdam and Chess#1 I'll be visiting Amsterdam with my wife in late September and I'm looking for chess related places to visit. The Max Euwe Centre and the Chess Museum are obvious. I'm not going to play chess there, bu… | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - Greatest chess player of the univerese#10 Well, if only strength is considered, it must be Magnus Carlsen. One of my personal favourites has been Tigran Petrosian ever since I saw the fifth match game of the 1963 World Championship. Botvinnik… | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - Who created Alekhine's Defense?#6 The oldest game with 1. e4 Nf6 in Megabase 2023 was indeed played by Napoleon Bonaparte. In Budapest 1921 both Alekhine and Boris Kostić played the opening , but Alekhine played it a bit earlier that … | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - Ruy Lopez sideline#11 @MrPushwood said in #10: > The Giuoco Piano Deferred Well said, it means it's not very good for White: Black often wants to move his a pawn any way. Now Black gets the move for free. | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - Carlsen is afraid#8 @edoki said in #1: > got my last post deleted > > I think he is afraid to lose the title and therefore he will never play again in the wcc He destroyed Nepomniachtchi in the last match. Why should he … | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - How i can won this game#6 @MasterOvFan it's one way to win the position and with absolutely no risk of stalemate: a rook and a passed pawn up is a completely winning endgame. | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - How i can won this game#2 ...Qf3 is mate in two. If one is lazy, Qh3+ wins easily, avoiding any kind of stalemate risks. | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - What's a good opening against the Queen's gambit?#7 It depends a lot what you want for. For patzers like me, everything is playable, from the Modern Defence to the Classical Slav. I am going to concentrate on the Chebanenko Slav, but feel free to disag… | ruttuvaari |
| General Chess Discussion - Chess Nostalgia#4 Oh, well: I visited Tampere, Finland, in early 90's, and I met Karpov and wrote a short article about it to a magazine. Paul Keres has always been one of my favourites and I visited Tallinn in March. … | ruttuvaari |
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