Nigel Davies

The fifth installment with two more to go.        

Some more from this amazing series:        

Even more from the dynamic duo!        

More from James and Garry:        

Here’s a really great documentary that I’ll be serializing over the coming days. Jim Plaskett does a great job of interviewing the maestro and the chess is really fascinating.          

One of the problems with studying via nothing but a computer screen is that nothing tends to stick. I think there’s a clear reason for this in that the mind is not fully engaged when just looking at an image of a chess board. On the other hand the act of moving chess pieces around [...]

Here’s an excellent and entertaining documentary from Youtube:        

One of my favourite players is Oleg Romanishin. In the 1970s he was widely tipped as possible World Championship material but his early promise never came to fruition. Why not? I think there were a couple of reasons, both stemming from a deep and artistic attitude to the game. First of all he has always [...]

Here’s some very good advice about playing in tournaments from a non chess source. It’s from Wolfe Lowenthal’s book, There are No Secrets, a collection of personal recollections of the Tai Chi master, Professor Cheng Man-chi’ing. Once, early in my study, I suffered an emotional blow. After 10 years of slaving away at a typing [...]

Well I really don’t agree with Hikaru Nakamura that Garry Kasparov’s main strength was the openings. I’d say it was his genius in playing dynamic positions, which when allied to a means of steering for them from the outset proved very difficult for his opponents to cope with. Of course it could be that Nakamura [...]