White to move! How should white proceed?
UNDERSTANDING CHESS WITH GM NYZHNYK: ATTACKING THE KING! (3)
Hello everybody, and welcome to a third article of the โUnderstanding 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...
Understanding Chess with GM Nyzhnyk: King Safety (2)
Hello everybody, and welcome to a second article of the โUnderstanding Chess with Grandmaster Illia Nyzhnykโ series. I would like to pick up where the previous article left off โ how to hide your king properly and avoid getting...
Understanding Chess with GM Nyzhnyk – Introduction (1)
Hello everybody, and welcome to the โUnderstanding Chess with Grandmaster Illia Nyzhnykโ, 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...
Highest Rated 15 Year Old
Another excerpt from my upcoming autobiography (March 11, 2025) If anything, the hostile treatment I was getting from the authorities was the best motivator I could have hoped for, because my chess improved by leaps and bounds during...
Up Against the Big Guns
๐ ๐๐๐๐๐พ๐ ๐๐๐พ๐ฝ๐๐๐พ๐ฝ ๐พ๐๐ผ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐ป๐๐๐๐๐บ๐๐๐ (๐พ๐๐๐พ๐ผ๐๐พ๐ฝ ๐๐ ๐ป๐พ ๐๐พ๐ ๐พ๐บ๐๐พ๐ฝ ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐พ๐’๐ ๐ง๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ค๐ง) …the classical chess tournaments that had defined my career up until that point started to feel unsatisfying, repetitive even. So I began to...
Locked Behind the Iron Curtain
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...
The Final Hurdle To History!
Another unedited excerpt of my upcoming autobiography: The final hurdle to making history! We ended the year (1990) back in Spain, for a tournament in Pamplona, the city best known for its famous “running of the bulls.” Locally, it’s...
โWhy is there a need for Girlโs or Womenโs Tournaments?โ
โWhy is there a need for Girlโs or Womenโs tournaments?โ This is probably one of the top 5 questions I have most often been asked over the past 15 years, since creating the Susan Polgar Foundation in 2002. I...