Yesterday We had a rest day in the Olympiad Expo Classic Tournament and I decided to play in the Titled Tuesday Tourney. In the first round I played with Gothamchess, Levy Rozman the biggest chess youtuber. Ha suprised me with the Scandinavia...
Yesterday I played with the 14 years old hungarian talent Bence Baki. I played the Bf4 line against the queen's gambit declined. I played c4-c5 to gain space. He exchanged the a- and b-pawns and minor pieces on the queenside. I got space advantage...
Today I played with the best player from Nepal, Candidate Master Bibek Thing. He played the Spanish opening and I replied with the old steinitz defense, where black plays very solidly d6, Bd7. We both missed an opening trap where I could lose...
Today I played with Manfredi La Barbera from Italy, a young talented player. He played 4...Nge7 against the Ruy Lopez to suprise me. I became too optimistic and played Ba3 to force his f8 rook the the good e8 square, because I wanted to attac...
Today I played against Mohamed Saeed Laily, a young talented player from the United Arab Emirates. He played the exchange variation of the slav defense with a kingside pawn storm. I made a mistake and I was forced to sacrifice a pawn to stop ...
The Chess olympiad started yesrterday in Budapest, Hungary. There are many side events. I joined to Olympiad Expo Classic, which is a 9 round swiss tournament with players from 12 countries. My oponent was a 10 years old hungarian talent Almos...
Yesterday I solved many puzzles from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpecker-method/course/10582/ You can solve the exercises and watch the games wi...
Yesterday I started my training pretty late, but still went well. I solved 7 puzzles from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpecker-method/course/10582/ ...
Yesterday I went for a Pilgrimage with my wife and friends. We arrived home late and I decided to have a short training session. 1 solved 3 exercises from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www...
Yesterday I played 2 games and solved 10 exercises from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpecker-method/course/10582/ You can solve the exercises and watch the ...
Yesterday I played a simul against 5 strong players with the 20+10 time control and I won 4 and lost 1 game. Then I solved 10 exercises from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.ch...
Yesterday I had a quick training session. I solved 11 exercises from the Woodpecker method book. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpecker-method/course/10582/ In the first game m...
Yesterday finally I went over the starting rating by winning both games I played. You can watch the full session of training and playing: I started to training by solving 14 puzzles from the book the Woodpecker method . You can also ...
Yesterday was a busy chess day, because first I solved 13 puzzles from the book the Woodpecker method and I also played 11 games in the Titled Tuesday Tourney. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpec...
Yesterday I decided to invest time in my chess daily and set the goal to reach 2500 in blitz. I started by solving 13 exercises from the book the Woodpecker method. You can also study it on Chessable at https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpecker...
Would you like to improve your chess? I am Attila Turzo, an international master and chess coach and I am accepting new students. You can replay one of my best games: I am at your service to help you to reach your goals. I have ...
10 new exercises from easy to hard to challange you and train your calculation skills. The positions are from my games I played in this week's Titled Tuesday Tourney. Some positions not happened in the game only in my analysis. You can watch t...
I created 10 exercises from my 06.04.2024. early Titled Tuesday Tourney games from round 1 to round 6. I first share the exercises then the games. You can watch the video version: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4...
I selected 9 positions, 1 position from each game of the Budapest Spring Festival I played in the last 9 days. Some of the position were actually played in the games some of them I found when I calculated the variation when playing or when analysi...
In the final round I wanted to win very much. I played the sicilian defense to unbalance the position. He played the closed system and put me under some pressure by his 2 bishops. The middlegame was balanced until he missed my b5-b4 which underm...
He could trapp my queen in the middle of the board. A rare situation. He missed it in his time trouble. The move Nd5 looked good. I did not think He could capture and when I capture back with my queen, my centralized queen can be trapped. I did ...
I sacrificed a knight for 2 pawns in the endgame to unbalance the position. I want to improve my tactics and started to study this course. If you want to improve your tactics I suggest you to stuyd the Tactics Ninja course: https://che...
Grandmaster NR Visakh played the English opening and I got a good position. I missed a nice Ne6 sacrifice, which I countered with the Rxc4 sacrifice. I want to improve my tactics and started to study this course. If you want to improve your tact...
In round 5 I played with the 3 times European Rapid Youth Champion Woman FIDE-Master Hanna Iva-Gal from Hungary. I saw, She authored a chessable course about the King's Indian Defense, so I decided to play the London system and a version w...
Finally I won a game! I hope this will be a long series My opponent wanted to play the Smith-Morra gambit, which I refused and went to the Alapin variation to play more calmly. His Na3 move was an unpleseant surprise. When I equalized he star...
