This will be our last Isolated Queen Pawn lesson. In fifteen lessons,if you studied the positions and some of the full games offered, you added to your chess knowledge. Today’s game is special in that you get to see an ...Read More

GM Carlos Torre was giving a simultaneous exhibition in 1924 when he reached this position as White. Unable to find a defense to the threatened Rc1, he resigned. He missed a saving line! Can you save the game for White?

This is another classic Botvinnik game. No mating attack. Not even a win of material. He just gets a better position with a key move that, positionally speaking, is decisive. You get the whole game today because it’s a ...Read More

If you have studied each of the prior isolated queen pawn positions, you should have a shot at knowing what to do here. The game is a famous one, fully annotated in my Openings for Amateurs—Next Steps book. It starts out...Read More

Black tries his best to defend a key square only to get mated.

A very unusual position. Here’s what you need to know. It is a won position. The way taken by White is amazing. In the final mating position, White has only his queen, bishop and some pawns while Black has his two rooks,...Read More