Chess Daily News by Susan Polgar https://chessdailynews.com Bringing you updated, timely, fair, and objective chess daily news and information from around the globe Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:10:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Gukesh vs Ding (game 1) https://chessdailynews.com/gukesh-vs-ding-game-1/ https://chessdailynews.com/gukesh-vs-ding-game-1/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:33:16 +0000 https://chessdailynews.com/?p=351212 The post Gukesh vs Ding (game 1) appeared first on Chess Daily News by Susan Polgar.

]]> https://chessdailynews.com/gukesh-vs-ding-game-1/feed/ 0 Rook and Pawn Endgame https://chessdailynews.com/rook-and-pawn-endgame-19/ https://chessdailynews.com/rook-and-pawn-endgame-19/#respond Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:28:47 +0000 https://chessdailynews.com/?p=351203 Black to move. Is this a win, draw, or loss for Black? How should Black proceed? (No computer lines please.) 8/3Rp3/1k6/8/K4p2/P3P3/7r/8 b – – 0 1

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]]> https://chessdailynews.com/about-susan-polgar-4/feed/ 0 Quickie Chess Tactic! https://chessdailynews.com/quickie-chess-tactic-23/ https://chessdailynews.com/quickie-chess-tactic-23/#respond Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:19:42 +0000 https://chessdailynews.com/?p=351194 White to move! How should white proceed?

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]]> https://chessdailynews.com/quickie-chess-tactic-23/feed/ 0 UNDERSTANDING CHESS WITH GM NYZHNYK: ATTACKING THE KING! (3) https://chessdailynews.com/understanding-chess-with-gm-illia-nyzhnyk-attacking-the-king/ https://chessdailynews.com/understanding-chess-with-gm-illia-nyzhnyk-attacking-the-king/#comments Sat, 12 Oct 2024 12:00:39 +0000 http://chessdailynews.com/?p=350964 Hello everybody, and welcome to a third article of the “Understanding Chess with Grandmaster Illia Nyzhnyk” series. In the last article, I talked about king safety, and what one should be looking for when making a decision on how to defend their king. This time, I would like to “reverse the roles” and discuss what […]

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]]> https://chessdailynews.com/understanding-chess-with-gm-illia-nyzhnyk-attacking-the-king/feed/ 1 Understanding Chess with GM Nyzhnyk: King Safety (2) https://chessdailynews.com/understanding-chess-with-gm-illia-nyzhnyk-king-safety/ https://chessdailynews.com/understanding-chess-with-gm-illia-nyzhnyk-king-safety/#respond Sat, 12 Oct 2024 08:00:04 +0000 http://chessdailynews.com/?p=350956 Hello everybody, and welcome to a second article of the “Understanding Chess with Grandmaster Illia Nyzhnyk” series. I would like to pick up where the previous article left off – how to hide your king properly and avoid getting checkmated. Please consider the following position: The only way to save the white king is to […]

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]]> https://chessdailynews.com/understanding-chess-with-gm-illia-nyzhnyk-king-safety/feed/ 0 Understanding Chess with GM Nyzhnyk – Introduction (1) https://chessdailynews.com/understanding-chess-with-grandmaster-illia-nyzhnyk-part-1/ https://chessdailynews.com/understanding-chess-with-grandmaster-illia-nyzhnyk-part-1/#comments Sat, 12 Oct 2024 06:00:55 +0000 http://chessdailynews.com/?p=350950 Hello everybody, and welcome to the “Understanding Chess with Grandmaster Illia Nyzhnyk”, a series of short chess articles. My goal for these articles is to show you fundamental chess principles with simple examples, something you can use as a reference while learning the game and becoming a better player. To start things off, I would […]

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]]> https://chessdailynews.com/highest-rated-15-year-old/feed/ 1 Up Against the Big Guns https://chessdailynews.com/up-against-the-big-guns/ https://chessdailynews.com/up-against-the-big-guns/#respond Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:14:39 +0000 https://chessdailynews.com/?p=351182 𝖠𝗇𝗈𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋 𝗎𝗇𝖾𝖽𝗂𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖾𝗑𝖼𝖾𝗋𝗉𝗍 𝖿𝗋𝗈𝗆 𝗆𝗒 𝗎𝗉𝖼𝗈𝗆𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖺𝗎𝗍𝗈𝖻𝗂𝗈𝗀𝗋𝖺𝗉𝗁𝗒 (𝖾𝗑𝗉𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝗍𝗈 𝖻𝖾 𝗋𝖾𝗅𝖾𝖺𝗌𝖾𝖽 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝖶𝗈𝗆𝖾𝗇’𝗌 𝖧𝗂𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗋𝗒 𝖬𝗈𝗇𝗍𝗁 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟧) …the classical chess tournaments that had defined my career up until that point started to feel unsatisfying, repetitive even. So I began to seek out different formats and new challenges. Maybe this was Bobby’s influence (𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 […]

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]]> https://chessdailynews.com/up-against-the-big-guns/feed/ 0 Locked Behind the Iron Curtain https://chessdailynews.com/locked-behind-the-iron-curtain/ https://chessdailynews.com/locked-behind-the-iron-curtain/#respond Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:04:28 +0000 https://chessdailynews.com/?p=351179 Another unedited excerpt from my upcoming autobiography (expected to be out on March 11, 2025): For the next few years, I became a prisoner of sorts, locked behind the Iron Curtain, not sure if I would ever be allowed to leave again to compete. At first, it seemed inconceivable to me that my own government […]

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