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...
Marcell Varga, a young Hungarian talent was my opponent in round 3. I missplayed the opening and in a equal position I played too agressive which nearly resulted a loss of a piece. I found a way to save material, but I was behind in time. He playe...
The young Hungarian talent Mate Felmery played the Moscos variation against me and we got to a static position. In the time toruble I tried to play active whicvh bacfired and I blundered a pawn. Won back the pawn, then missed a knight fork. I shou...
I am participating in the Budapest Spring Festival, which is the Open Hungarian Championship. You can find the games and the pairings of the tourney here: https://www.chess.com/events/2024-budapest-chess-festival Pairings and standings: ht...
Today I share you a few Checkmates and some other tactics from the simul games I played in the last week. Usually I played with around 10 players in the same time with 20 minute plus 10 seconds increment time contorol. If you want to imp...
Today I share a 100 moves victory and a few puzzles from the yesterday's simul. In this game I got an advantage in the middlegame, but decided to go to the endgame instead of a kingside attack. In the endgame I got a rook against a bisho...
Yesterday I played 2 simul event on my channel at https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo where I played simultaneously 6-10 players in the same time. Continously finished and started new games. All together around 30 game was played. I want to show...
Would you like to play with an International Master? You can play with me a 20 minutes game with 10 seconds increment now on my stream at https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo
The last couple of months were very busy for me. I solved most of the challenges and I am back to playing, analyzing, creating exericises and sharing it with you. I am also available for coaching sessions. If you want to improve your chess and wou...
My friend Grandmaster Noël Studer created a new course which I want to suggest you to check if you are under 1200 on chess.com Beginner Chess Mastery is an all-in-one Chess video course featuring 12+ hours of high-quality video content made...
In the round 4 in the Ennis tourney which started at 10:00 am I played with the strong Ukraine International Master Oleg Gubanov. I played the London system. He replied with the queen's indian setup. He exchanged the bishops with Ba6 and l...
The round 2 of the Ennis tourney started at 10:00 am. Last night my game and the analysis with my opponent finished past midnight and later I had a dinner and wrote for the blog. The night was short James Naughton was my opponent. He play...
I arrived from Budapest to Shannon. I was able to sleep on the plane and read a book and prayers before landing. It went well and one of the players of Ennis pick me up on the airport and I arrived to the hotel around 1:00 pm. I had a long walk to...
Tomorrow, on Friday morning I travel to Ennis, Ireland to play in an international tourney. Ennis won the tidiest city of Ireland award several. You can watch 2 short videos about the town: In the tourney around 100 people will play in 3 gro...
A few puzzles for today: Would you like to improve your chess? You can read about my coaching philosophy and methods at https://www.chess.com/article/view/coach-of-the-month-im-attila-turzo You can email me about lessons at ...
Yesterday 12 players competed in the Monday night tourney. The winner was Gabor Knisch a 77 years young player! The final standings: Gabor played with the black pieces. Today we got easier checkmate puzzles: Would yo...
A few nice puzzles: Would you like to improve your chess? You can read about my coaching philosophy and methods at https://www.chess.com/article/view/coach-of-the-month-im-attila-turzo You can email me about lessons at at...
