Black to play I and a friend was hitting it on this morning and surprisingly he's black who couldn't see this one move checkmate. I'll appreciate your comments on this one.

One of the great things I've learned from Levy Rozman, is a kind of theory of mind when it comes to chess. Of course I've learned a little bit more about the theory of openings, and practical moves for

In today's game I tried out a technique I learned from watching the Gotham Chess video from the "Chess Steps" series, for 1000-1400. Seeing as I'm a 1479 rated player I decided to give it a go.

As some of you may know, I haven't been playing chess now for a while and when you look at it, the reasons have been pretty silly. For a start my old ergonomic mouse stopped working properly with my computer.