I am going to present a powerful system with White to fight against the main old line of the Scandinavian Defence. Me!- riga1960...

Realising that my position (White) is nothing to be proud of, I played Qf4 with the hope to target the only weakness in Black's position:...

Indeed! And you can beat strong players virtually with any opening. Do not beat yourself because you don't know X and Y openings, and do...

I have played an interesting game using my regular off-beat openings (basically rubbish but good enough for a rapid game!). There was a...

Greed. What a horrible, horrible thing when you play a chess game. When we learn the game, we are taught that gaining material is good...

My last post was about how to win fast with dynamic play. https://marcoferrante.wixsite.com/website/post/be-dynamic Unfortunately, you...

This is how you play when you want to win fast! Me! - TourneyPro (chess.com, 22 Jan 2022) 1.Nf3 f5 2.e4!? Black was probably expecting...

Here we are, the final exercise! This time, I am going to present the entire game. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Bb5 Nge7 5.0-0 a6 6.Bd3...

In the previous post, we had an example of what we could call “active prophylaxis”. In that particular example, the king move was...

In this post, I am going to reinforce the concept of the comparison method to select between variations. The first time that I introduce...

In the previous posts, we saw several tools that might help us to decide which move to play in a complicated position. It would be a...

In the previous exercises, we discovered the importance of assessing the nature of the position, and of using our evaluation skills to...

The first position comes from a game that I played in Malta against Kanyamarala Tarun, a young FIDE master from Ireland. I played White....

In the previous exercise, we examined how 1) understanding whether the position was a dynamic or a positional game can help you to find...

My dad and I in Lisbon (Open Portugal 2018). In the next posts, I am going to share a few thoughts on how to decide what to play in...

I want to take a moment to write about how beautiful is to keep playing chess even if you are not a professional chess player. I have...