Lessons are exactly what they sound like: simple, clearly illustrated slideshows explaining everything from the basic rules to the most well-established openings, like the Sicilian Defense and the Queen’s Gambit. Learn, meanwhile, is a compendium of opportunities to improve your chess prowess, divided into Lessons, Puzzles, and Epic Games.
Work your way through these slideshows, which are accompanied by exercises, and you’ll have a solid grounding in the art of chess. Practice is the mode where you get to play against the various AI opponents, while Challenge lets you take on friends either locally or online (the latter requires you and your opponent to register an account.) The game consists of three main modes: Learn, Practice, and Challenge. Whenever we brave a game with third-worst player Claire, pitched as the “best partner for a quick game”, we get brutally dismantled.įortunately, SparkChess is a good teacher. He’s the weakest of the game’s six AI opponents, and he’s still “learning the basics”.ĭeon, the second weakest opponent, “knows the rules but doesn’t have a clear strategy”. SparkChess put us in our place pretty quickly. Is it just me or is chess getting harder? That’s definitely how it feels, now that the internet has made it impossible for us to concentrate on anything for longer than about 29 seconds. Only a handful of fragments are from studies rather than from actual chess games, which may appeal to tournament players.Not the biggest multiplayer chess community Some of Warrier’s sayings are familiar rules of thumb, such as the catchy “Passed Pawns must be pushed.” Other sayings seem true, but are less catchy, such as “Generally, if you have fianchettoed your king’s bishop to g2 or g7 and castled kingside, you do not want to exchange that bishop off as that would weaken some critical squares near your king.”Įach saying is illustrated with an annotated fragment, taken from classic games as well as from modern chess games. ‘You don’t get style points in chess’ – Chris Toolin.” Warrier quotes players who are not grandmasters too, such as number 154: “Don’t sacrifice without good reason. Other sayings quote grandmasters including Jose Raul Capablanca, Ben Finegold, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Daniel King. Several of Warrier’s “axioms, one-lines, and mantras,” which I’ll shorten to “sayings,” quote Pandolfini. Warrier intends The Chess Bible – Most Instructive Tips, Axioms, One-Liners & Mantras as an expansion of Pandolfini’s commandments. Warrier thinks reading the commandments helped him rise to a 1500-rated player.
Walker asked Warrier to read Pandolfini’s 64 commandments of chess, found in The ABCs of Chess, before each tournament game. When Warrier was rated 1000, he followed the advice of his coach, Al Walker. The white Q was on f2, where it can move to h4 but not to h5. On page 16, in Warrier versus Grandmaster Ilya Nyzhnyk, move 22 for White is given as 22. On page 9, there is a quote attributed to Confucius in 1885. A 21-page preview is available at the publisher’s website. The book’s numerous chess diagrams are easy on the eyes.It is 384 pages long. The Chess Bible – Most Instructive Tips, Axioms, One-Liners & Mantras is a great looking book. Warrier does not explain why he uses “Vishnu” rather than “Krishnan” as his first name. To find it, look for “Warrier, Krishnan” on the site. On the Perpetual Chess Podcast, Warrier said that, in three years, he plans to turn his diary into his second book tentatively titled 1,000 days to Grandmaster.Īs of January 2023, Warrier’s US Chess rating is 2039. Warrier keeps a daily diary of his training. In 2022, the North Texas Chess Academy changed its name to Texas Chess Center Carrollton, with the unified company owned by David Gaston, Jarred Tetzlaff, and Toolin. Also in 2016, along with National Master Chris Toolin, Warrier opened the North Texas Chess Academy. Warrier has lived in Texas before, as I taught chess alongside him at a 2016 summer chess camp at Greenhill School. According to his interview on the Perpetual Chess Podcast, Vishnu Warrier moved to Plano with his wife and 19-month-old son in November 2022.
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