Rook and Pawn Endgame
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
About Susan Polgar
About Susan Polgar: – Winner of 4 Women’s World Championships (Under 16, Blitz, Rapid, and Classical) – First World Chess Champion in history (male or female) to win the triple-crown (Blitz, Rapid and Classical World Championships) – The only...
UNDERSTANDING CHESS WITH GM NYZHNYK: ATTACKING THE KING! (3)
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...
Understanding Chess with GM Nyzhnyk: King Safety (2)
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...
Understanding Chess with GM Nyzhnyk – Introduction (1)
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...
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
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...
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...