Chess Lessons
Chess for Beginners
A guide to chess for beginners and Learn some of the tactics here…
Would-be Robber Picks Wrong Elderly Man, Gets Pummeled
A Michigan man taught a would-be pickpocket a lesson when he subdued the thief with "six or seven" punches until police arrived; the ex-marine and former boxer says he just acted on instinct.
Learn to Live Like Noah's Ark
Noah’s Ark teaches us ten lessons on how to lead a happy and successful life, and you can read it here.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
After a year, we all need time to take stock - not least poor Nigel Short, who has had to put up with my inanities, writes Stephen Moss.
Chess: The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster...
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Nigel Short shows Stephen Moss how great players can adapt their style.
The Rookie
Stephen Moss and Nigel Short play through a 'rip-roaring positional attack' from Russian world champion Alexander Alekhine.
Chess: the Rookie
Stephen Moss and Nigel Short play through some games by the peerless Alexander Alekhine.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Stephen Moss and Nigel Short on cutting through the dross.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
I have taken to abusing my opponents on the FICS website, accusing them of using computers as they play - as if I can't be beaten without artificial aids! By Stephen Moss
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster.
Chess: The Rookie, Part 39
First cash prize as a chess player. Last week I boasted that, with a little help from former world champion Emanuel Lasker, I felt my play was improving. By Stephen Moss
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Stephen Moss continues his chess education from Nigel Short with a look at Emmanuel Lasker.
The Rookie
Chess: Stephen Moss on studying Lasker and getting it right.
Chess: Lessons From a Grandmaster
Stephen Moss gets back to basics. No puzzles this week; they're enjoyable and good practice but they don't teach you chess.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster; Part 35
Stephen Moss attempts one last spot-the-continuation exercise.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Nigel Short challenges Stephen Moss to find the remarkable winning move in a game played in 1957 between Mr Anon and the Ukrainian-born grandmaster, Nicolas Rossolimo.
Chess: Lessons From a Grandmaster
Stephen Moss and Nigel Short study positions from Mark Dvoretsky and Artur Yusupov's book Positional Play.
Chess: The Rookie, Part 31
Dr Short and I are looking at a game Anatoly Karpov played against Robert Hübner in Montreal in 1979. By Stephen Moss and Nigel Short
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Nigel Short and Stephen Moss look at a 1943 game between Mikhail Botvinnik and Evgeny Zagoriansky.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Do you ever do those chess puzzles - white to play and mate in four? They're fun, but I'm sure they don't teach you chess, because they tell you there's a Big Tactic lurking (usually involving a flashy sacrifice) and you just have to locate it.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
I was complaining last week about the woes of my chess life; but there is one bright spot in the darkness. A couple of weeks ago, I won the José Raul Capablanca Memorial Chess Society Cup, and as I write the trophy is sitting in front of me, gleaming. By Stephen Moss
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Stephen Moss studies a wonderful game between Reti and Alekhine and feels his wintry mood lighten.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: That's enough, for the moment, of "AlekHyne", my nom de blunder on the FICS website. But what of the player to whom the handle is an hommage - the Russian-born world champion Alexander Alekhine (pronounced Al-yekh-een, if you really want to show off,...
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: I had to show Nigel Short there was hope, so pulled out this game which I played last June against the Hydra supercomputer. By Stephen Moss
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster.
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Dr Short and I are looking at some of my internet games to see what I was doing right (not much) and where I was going wrong, writes Stephen Moss.
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Last week we analysed a bad loss I suffered playing against the Queen's gambit. By move 20 I was clearly sinking, but Short felt I could still have constructed a defence that would have allowed me to battle on.
Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
My chess doctor Nigel Short and I are exploring my inert responses to Queen's gambit - in every sense a bête noire for me.
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster.
The Rookie Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Following last week's column on the Sicilian defence, many readers wrote to ask how 1. e4 c5 came by that name. OK, I exaggerate: no one wrote, but we want to tell you anyway. It was named after Pietro Carrera, a Sicilian priest who codified many of the rules of the game in the early 17th century.
Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Openings are crucial in chess. The game is often won and lost in the first 15 or so moves, when a powerful position can be constructed which more or less plays itself thereafter. The openings are very formulaic - you can learn sequences of moves and responses to your opponent's moves. But, and it's a huge but, there are thousands of them.
The Rookie
Chess: Last week, we decided that "Respect your chess" was going to be one of our key phrases, along with "Adopt a hero", "Keep the tension" and "Drink like a grandmaster". But, unfortunately, respecting your chess costs money.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
A question has been plaguing me. I have been playing chess for about 37 years, half a lifetime, so why am I still so useless?
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster. These are the horrible moves of the blindfold game I played against Nigel Short last ...
Stephen Moss and Nigel Short: The Rookie Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: We hadn't intended to have a third slice of Paul Morphy, one of the pioneering geniuses of chess, but Nigel Short and I ended up playing through this wacky game between Morphy and an unknown who had been given odds of a rook.
Rugby Union: The 17-hour Rugby Marathon That Teaches a Lesson
You can watch all the rugby you like, writes Frank Keating, but whether you watch a decent game is down to the officials, not the players.
The Grandmaster and the Rookie
Chess: Today, Nigel Short, Britain's most successful player ever, starts a new career as this paper's chess columnist. But his greatest challenge will be to transform Guardian journalist Stephen Moss - who admits to being 'truly hopeless' - into a half-decent player.
Man v Machine in Chess Showdown
Chess: Michael Adams, the UK's leading chess grandmaster, will begin a six-match tournament against the Hydra computer at the Wembley Centre in London on June 21
Boxing: Wright's Punch-perfect Display Teaches Trinidad a Lesson
Ronald "Winky" Wright produced the outstanding display of his long career as he handed the former world champion Félix Trinidad a boxing lesson in a middleweight non-title fight in front of more than 14,000 fans at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Chess tactics
Chess: The Cold War may have long thawed, but team chess still excels in Russia.
The Fischer King
Chess genius, cold warrior turned al-Qaida enthusiast - and now citizen of Iceland. Stephen Moss salutes a living legend
Maggie Kim Teaches Us A Lesson
Young Songbird Is A New Breed of Independent Artist...Maggie Kim bares her soul and everything else (see CD fold out) on her entertaining and funky...
Kasparov defeated by 15-year-old prodigy
Chess: In one of the biggest shocks in chess history, Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, the world No1, has been beaten by a smart alecky teenager.
Noah’s Ark teaches us ten lessons on how to lead a happy and successful life, and you can read it here.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
After a year, we all need time to take stock - not least poor Nigel Short, who has had to put up with my inanities, writes Stephen Moss.
Chess: The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster...
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Nigel Short shows Stephen Moss how great players can adapt their style.
The Rookie
Stephen Moss and Nigel Short play through a 'rip-roaring positional attack' from Russian world champion Alexander Alekhine.
Chess: the Rookie
Stephen Moss and Nigel Short play through some games by the peerless Alexander Alekhine.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Stephen Moss and Nigel Short on cutting through the dross.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
I have taken to abusing my opponents on the FICS website, accusing them of using computers as they play - as if I can't be beaten without artificial aids! By Stephen Moss
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster.
Chess: The Rookie, Part 39
First cash prize as a chess player. Last week I boasted that, with a little help from former world champion Emanuel Lasker, I felt my play was improving. By Stephen Moss
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Stephen Moss continues his chess education from Nigel Short with a look at Emmanuel Lasker.
The Rookie
Chess: Stephen Moss on studying Lasker and getting it right.
Chess: Lessons From a Grandmaster
Stephen Moss gets back to basics. No puzzles this week; they're enjoyable and good practice but they don't teach you chess.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster; Part 35
Stephen Moss attempts one last spot-the-continuation exercise.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Nigel Short challenges Stephen Moss to find the remarkable winning move in a game played in 1957 between Mr Anon and the Ukrainian-born grandmaster, Nicolas Rossolimo.
Chess: Lessons From a Grandmaster
Stephen Moss and Nigel Short study positions from Mark Dvoretsky and Artur Yusupov's book Positional Play.
Chess: The Rookie, Part 31
Dr Short and I are looking at a game Anatoly Karpov played against Robert Hübner in Montreal in 1979. By Stephen Moss and Nigel Short
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Nigel Short and Stephen Moss look at a 1943 game between Mikhail Botvinnik and Evgeny Zagoriansky.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Do you ever do those chess puzzles - white to play and mate in four? They're fun, but I'm sure they don't teach you chess, because they tell you there's a Big Tactic lurking (usually involving a flashy sacrifice) and you just have to locate it.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
I was complaining last week about the woes of my chess life; but there is one bright spot in the darkness. A couple of weeks ago, I won the José Raul Capablanca Memorial Chess Society Cup, and as I write the trophy is sitting in front of me, gleaming. By Stephen Moss
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Stephen Moss studies a wonderful game between Reti and Alekhine and feels his wintry mood lighten.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: That's enough, for the moment, of "AlekHyne", my nom de blunder on the FICS website. But what of the player to whom the handle is an hommage - the Russian-born world champion Alexander Alekhine (pronounced Al-yekh-een, if you really want to show off,...
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: I had to show Nigel Short there was hope, so pulled out this game which I played last June against the Hydra supercomputer. By Stephen Moss
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster.
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Dr Short and I are looking at some of my internet games to see what I was doing right (not much) and where I was going wrong, writes Stephen Moss.
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Last week we analysed a bad loss I suffered playing against the Queen's gambit. By move 20 I was clearly sinking, but Short felt I could still have constructed a defence that would have allowed me to battle on.
Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
My chess doctor Nigel Short and I are exploring my inert responses to Queen's gambit - in every sense a bête noire for me.
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster.
The Rookie Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: Following last week's column on the Sicilian defence, many readers wrote to ask how 1. e4 c5 came by that name. OK, I exaggerate: no one wrote, but we want to tell you anyway. It was named after Pietro Carrera, a Sicilian priest who codified many of the rules of the game in the early 17th century.
Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Openings are crucial in chess. The game is often won and lost in the first 15 or so moves, when a powerful position can be constructed which more or less plays itself thereafter. The openings are very formulaic - you can learn sequences of moves and responses to your opponent's moves. But, and it's a huge but, there are thousands of them.
The Rookie
Chess: Last week, we decided that "Respect your chess" was going to be one of our key phrases, along with "Adopt a hero", "Keep the tension" and "Drink like a grandmaster". But, unfortunately, respecting your chess costs money.
The Rookie: Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
A question has been plaguing me. I have been playing chess for about 37 years, half a lifetime, so why am I still so useless?
The Rookie
Chess lessons from a Grandmaster. These are the horrible moves of the blindfold game I played against Nigel Short last ...
Stephen Moss and Nigel Short: The Rookie Chess Lessons From a Grandmaster
Chess: We hadn't intended to have a third slice of Paul Morphy, one of the pioneering geniuses of chess, but Nigel Short and I ended up playing through this wacky game between Morphy and an unknown who had been given odds of a rook.
Rugby Union: The 17-hour Rugby Marathon That Teaches a Lesson
You can watch all the rugby you like, writes Frank Keating, but whether you watch a decent game is down to the officials, not the players.
The Grandmaster and the Rookie
Chess: Today, Nigel Short, Britain's most successful player ever, starts a new career as this paper's chess columnist. But his greatest challenge will be to transform Guardian journalist Stephen Moss - who admits to being 'truly hopeless' - into a half-decent player.
Man v Machine in Chess Showdown
Chess: Michael Adams, the UK's leading chess grandmaster, will begin a six-match tournament against the Hydra computer at the Wembley Centre in London on June 21
Boxing: Wright's Punch-perfect Display Teaches Trinidad a Lesson
Ronald "Winky" Wright produced the outstanding display of his long career as he handed the former world champion Félix Trinidad a boxing lesson in a middleweight non-title fight in front of more than 14,000 fans at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Chess tactics
Chess: The Cold War may have long thawed, but team chess still excels in Russia.
The Fischer King
Chess genius, cold warrior turned al-Qaida enthusiast - and now citizen of Iceland. Stephen Moss salutes a living legend
Maggie Kim Teaches Us A Lesson
Young Songbird Is A New Breed of Independent Artist...Maggie Kim bares her soul and everything else (see CD fold out) on her entertaining and funky...
Kasparov defeated by 15-year-old prodigy
Chess: In one of the biggest shocks in chess history, Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, the world No1, has been beaten by a smart alecky teenager.