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Openings
The Italian Game: One of Chess’s Oldest Openings Still Works
From Renaissance notebooks to modern club games, the Italian Game remains a flexible opening that teaches development, central play and attack.
Analysis & Annotations
The Immortal Game: Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851
Adolf Anderssen’s 1851 masterpiece sacrificed a bishop, two rooks and a queen. Here is how its attacking logic made the game immortal.
Analysis & Annotations
The Opera Game: How Morphy Beat Two Nobles in a Box
Paul Morphy’s Opera Game is a 17-move lesson in development, initiative and sacrifice, played against two consulting aristocrats in Paris in 1858.
Analysis & Annotations
The Game of the Century: 13-Year-Old Fischer Beats Byrne
Revisit Bobby Fischer’s 1956 win over Donald Byrne: a Grünfeld battle where a daring queen sacrifice turned calculation into chess history.
Women in Chess
Judit Polgar: the woman who beat the world’s best men
Judit Polgar broke through chess’s old boundaries, becoming its strongest woman player and defeating 11 current or former world champions.
