Daniel Furfaro

Morphy requires actual reflection before he’ll share a game report. I think that’s a better way to learn.

@ImShahinyan Re7 Now they can lose a queen or get checkmated.

White to move! Find the only winning continuation 😮 Level: 2000+

@MaxChess_ Take the draw.

White to move mate in 378. Yes this is real🤣♟️ Not my own work, found online but unfortunately I don’t know who to credit it to.

@eternalhopeoaks Play the Evans Gambit, by Tim Harding

is there a good opening book on the london system?

@davidllada I like color this time.

Colour or black and white? 🤔

@GMAlexColovic @Paul69951917 Monstrous.

If you didn't know the engine evaluation, what would you say about the position?

Blackburne Epic Queen Sacrifice and Checkmate!! Just wow 🤯😱 Blackburne vs Gifford 1874

I've hit a plateau in chess. I think the best way (for me) to get better is a dedicated study in one area. I'll study M. Ríos' Chess Structures, and share how that helps. Two outcomes I believe will come from that are: 1) improved openings 2) clearer middlegame thinking

Meet ‘the Doctor,’ a centenarian chess hustler who turned 103 last December. He claims to have been born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, though that may be stretching things a little, considering the monarchy disappeared in 1918 😅 For decades, he has been one of the familiar faces at the chess tables in the southwest corner of Washington Square Park. He still plays every day, from mid-morning until late in the evening. ‘I am always up for a game, but I can’t play rapid chess,’ he says with disarming humility. The chess world is full of characters so extraordinary that, if you encountered them in fiction, you would probably think the author had gone too far.

Today I had the chance to photograph Johnny, one of the most legendary chess hustlers in NYC. I was surprised he remembered playing me, two years ago! “You beat me, but you didn’t take any pictures back then,” he said. Well, I’ve fixed that now.

@FRosyrat96857 @ChessNetwork Builds an attack on b5. Options are to defend directly (i think this fails in the end and the pawn dies) or to create counter play on the kingside. (To be fair, I’m not certain that succeeds either but that’s how i’d play this.

@checkmatetheday @ChessNetwork Why is Rb4 such a strong move?

What is the best reply to Rb4? Praggnanandhaa vs. Firouzja, 2026

@chesscoachandra 4B: Kxf2 Rh2+ 5. Ke1 nope. This is busted. I did not solve this.

@chesscoachandra 1. … Qe4+ 2. Kf1 Rh1+ 3. Ng1 Our mating net has a hole in it… What to do? …. e2+! 4A: Qxe2 Rxg1+ 5. Kxf2 Rg2+ 6. Kf1 (or Ke1) Qxe2# 4B 🤣: does not exist. I forgot that my queen is guarding e2. Sooo Kxe2 is NOT a line. Tactics are hard!

Black to move. Forced mate, but it's nuts!

@Lordweb111 I don’t have a copy it’s a great book though. There’s also a chessable course. forwardchess.com/product/chess-… chessable.com/chess-structur…

@checkmatetheday Hi Daniel,You don't need to memorize lines, just understand the ideas behind the openings so you won't fall for opening traps, Also please,Can I get a copy of chess structure if it's a soft copy?

In my opinion you should have ideas on the following opening; 1.Italian game 2.Spanish opening 3.Sicilian defense 4.Caro-kann 5.French defense 6.Queens Gambit 7. London system 8. Petrov defense 9. English opening 10. Scotch opening

@Eren_Jaeg3r @general_abn I must be missing something. What about Qh6?

@general_abn If your opponent takes you get a free queen,if he doesn't,then mate in 2

How is this a brilliant move? what’s wrong with stockfish today😅

@SusanPolgar Oooh We use our extra pawn to reverse opposition!! 1. Ke2 Ke6 (long opp) 2. Kd3 Kd5 3. f4! Ke6 Now we control opposition 4. Kc4 Kd6 5. Kd4 Kc6 6. Kc5 (e5 is not available for opp) …Ke7 7. Kd5 Kf6 8. Kd6 Kg6 9. Ke6 Kg7 10. Kxf5 We win with two connected passed pawns.

Endgame Improvement White to move. How can white win this? #Endgame #ChessPunks

@RoizMichael83 1. Ke5 (preventing…Kg7) e3 2. Bxg2 e2 3. Kf6 e1Q Woooow 4. g7+ Kh7 5. Be4+! Qxe4 6. g8Q+ Kxg8 Stalemate!

Where do we move to achieve a draw?🤔

@NealBruceBC Please tell me it’s a check followed by a preposterous pin!

I guess it’s true that when you have only moves, they are not terribly hard to find. 😊 Black to move and win from my Blitz game. 🤔 #chesspunks

@kibitzingpatzer Tartakower? And of course Philidor.

Chess joke of the day. 🤔