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What would you play in the diagrammed position? PGN If you said 10...Nde5! or 10...Nce5!, take full credit. White's position is alrea...

After playing Rhine-Boerkoel (see previous post), I found the following game, which has strikingly similar tactics. The most salient differe...

This is one of my three favorite games that I have played. The others are K.Thompson-Rhine, 1992 and Rhine-Sprenkle, 1981 . This is the onl...

The same tactical themes are seen again and again. Compare the finishes of these two games. They reached identical positions except for the ...

In the game below, White was already in big trouble when he attempted to exploit the pin on my knight with 8.Ne4?? 8...Nxe4! was a typical s...

I have previously written several posts about traps in the Englund Gambit (1.d4 e5? or, to be charitable, 1.d4 e5?!). There are two "o...

In the B Group at the Tata Steel (Wijk aan Zee) tournament, the world's current youngest grandmaster, 14-year-old Samuel Sevian, perform...