Competition - Entertainment (1)
The following section is intended primarily to help you relax from your usual daily duties, but at the same time – as we hope – it can bring you entertainment and effort, learning and beauty, joy from solving diagrams – problems that are sometimes quite difficult, sometimes easier; and the chance to win a selected prize if you manage to solve the one, but hardest, final task! All of the above according to your kind choice! Continue reading
Obituary of a coaching genius
We bring a remembrance of one of the best coaches and didacticians in the world, writer and my coaching guru Mark Dvoretsky, who passed away unexpectedly on 26 September 2016. On our pages, the remembrance is also understood as teaching material for readers, but we also include Dvoretsky's game examples. After all, despite the prevailing opinion, Dvoretsky was not always just an excellent coach! From the vast literature, we focused on the author's favourite – prophylaxis and its most successful proponents Petrosian and Karpov. Deep, hard-to-surpass reflections on the performance growth of a chess player can then be found at the end of the remembrance; Dvoretsky seemed ahead of his time when he predicted the arrival of a new messiah who would try to dethrone... the opening theory and thus change the shape not only of top-level chess, Magnus Carlsen. Let us read what he wrote in 2007... Continue reading
For coaches (2) - Openings, Endgames, Humour
Today I have prepared for you a series of interesting positions and materials for the month of September. Download the materials from the Openings, Endgames and Humour sections in the attachment. Included is also a special guide on how to work with the materials in the For Coaches section. Continue reading
Let's analyse no. 11 - The phenomenon of Carlsen
The secret of the crushing performance lead of the world champion; what lies behind it? Botvinnik’s analysis: „Capablanca the greatest natural talent of all time!“ Reincarnation of Capablanca into MC...? We analyse the game Carlsen vs. Karjakin from Basque Bilbao, which reveals a veil of the secret... What are multifunctional games and how to learn from them?... Let’s evaluate positions using analogies... A closer encounter of the third kind: can the system opened by Carlsen 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3!? be accepted as the 3rd member of the Delayed Alapin family? […] Continue reading
Overview of pupils' achievements as of 1.7.2016
Overview of achievements and current performance ranking of Chess School students available here: Overview of pupils' achievements as of 1.7.2016 Continue reading
On the Pillory (2) - Shocking change of chess rules
Two stories: the knight’s move and the Weekly editor at odds with notation. Continue reading
Lights and shadows (Chess for Schools - chess school) - complete course
Here, esteemed reader-coaches can download for free a series of popular articles that were published between 2002-2005, first on the pages of the then magazine Mat-64 (under the editorship of Mr Štefan Gross), later also on ŠachInfo (under the title Chess for Schools – chess school) under the leadership of Mr Ing. Břetislav Modr. Although this work primarily dealt with the selection of suitable (and of course also unsuitable) openings for [...] Continue reading
On the Pillory - first part
The first part of the series On the Pillory contains two stories. First, we look at an unfortunate case in which the author was almost completely innocent – Jaroslav Hrabě, Isolated Pawn, PLISKA publishing. The second example, entitled "unfortunate first diagram", describes a fatal author’s error in the well-known book by Grandmaster Alexey Suetin "School of Chess Strategy and Tactics".
I look forward to your reactions in the discussion! Continue reading
Let us pillory, but also praise
The column "On the Pillory" aims especially at extraordinarily unsuccessful literary „gems“ mostly produced by our – Czech, but also world – authors. The purpose of introducing this column is not only to entertain readers and make them think whether pillorying the author, i.e. a particular work, is legitimate or even necessary, but also to learn and in the future rather avoid the author (his works) who has become the target of our interest! We want to warn here against often unbelievably slapdash, submitted and subsequently published work... Continue reading
For coaches - introduction
We bring a section dedicated primarily to coaches of aspirants of our beautiful game. We would like to publish here mainly materials that could be useful to you in working with your pupils. This includes both individual training (personal or via Skype) and group training – in clubs, at training camps, chess camps, as well as, for example, so-called webinars and similar. Continue reading
Chess quote
Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chess quote
Chess, like music and love, has the power to make a person happy.
Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch