Alberto Chueca - Alberto Chueca - High Performance Chess Academy

I am International Master and Chess coach. I like to help people to improve their chess level. Starting teaching them the basic concepts and adding more complexity to every lesson. I have designed a special methodology to improve in chess which we are using in the lessons with very good results. If you are finding how to improve your chess level, I recommend you to check The Chueca Method to see how I work :)

The 100 Best Players In the World ♟️

Javokhir Sindarov, New Top 100 of the World!

Javokhir Sindarov is a young chess player, and one of the best in the world. There is no doubt he belongs to the new generation of chess players, and there are many reasons to believe he could be the next world champion.

We will analyze the player Javokhir Sindarov, and see what we can learn from him at 16 years old! It’s incredible to see how the most proficient grandmasters nowadays are all underage!

He is an Uzbek chess prodigy along with his fellow champion Nodirbek Abdussattorov. He became grandmaster when he was 12 years and 10 months old, which … Read more

25/04/2022 No Comments

07 Chess Tournaments ♟️

NEW – Ukraine imposes in solidarity match against Norway – 2022

A friendly match was arranged between Norway and Ukraine, a very interesting match where Ukraine imposes to Norway and ended up winning! The lead of the Norwegian team was Magnus Carlsen, while the veteran Vasyl Ivanchuk was the head of the Ukrainian team.

Various important chess institutions organized an initiative to prepare for this event. The good knight chess club, Offerspill chess club, chess teach, And Lviv chess federation joined in this case.

Several grandmasters were on the Norwegian team, Aryan Tari, Lars Oskar Hauge, and Johan-Sebastian Christiansen. And among the Ukrainian team were incredibly strong masters like Kirill Shevchenko, … Read more

25/04/2022 No Comments

The 100 Best Players In the World ♟️

Sergey Karjakin, Latest Top 10 in the world!

Sergey Karjakin is one of the best contemporary grandmasters of our time, and one with a unique playstyle. Anyone could easily learn a thing or two from his play, analyze this grandmaster’s always taken you so deep into the calculation.

We will review some information about the excellent grandmaster and how he has reached the position he has right now. Although he has been banned from upcoming FIDE events for his political views, that doesn’t make him a bad player.

Sergey Karjakin was the youngest person in getting a grandmaster title for many years as he achieves it when he … Read more

22/04/2022 No Comments

The 100 Best Players In the World ♟️

Raunak Sadhwani, New Top 100 juniors!

Raunak Sadhwani is one of the best juniors in chess right now, also a player with great aspirations for his career. The strength of this master can’t be put in doubt, he is simply one of the best chess players in the world.

Raunak Sadhwani is the 9^th youngest person in the world to become a grandmaster and the 4th in India. At some point, he was referred to in the giant chess platform ChessBase as “the strongest U16 master of the world”.

Sadhwani has had the opportunity to play alongside world-class masters like Hikaru Nakamura, or Alireza Firouzja. … Read more

21/04/2022 No Comments

The 100 Best Players In the World ♟️

Shocking D Gukesh! 16y-o in the Top 100!

D Gukesh is the new Indian chess talent that just placed himself among the top ten best Junior players in the world. Just when players like Nihal Sarin, Firouzja, and Hand Moke enter the field, surprisingly D Gukesh made an entrance.

It becomes necessary to talk about the youngest new chess prodigy from India that is coming to stay it would seem. His real name is Dommaraju Gukesh, but the fanatics kindly call him D Gukesh as a friendly nickname.

Different from all regular chess players, he learned chess when he was 7 years old, and started to become good … Read more

20/04/2022 No Comments

Our Beautiful Chess

Unforgettable Capablanca and his ideal of chess

Ex-world chess champion Jose Raul Capablanca was a Cuban master that took the title from Emanuel Lasker in 1920. The way Capablanca won the world champion title was rather unusual.

In his time, he was referred to as “the Mozart of chess” as his superiority over their rivals was brutal. Capablanca was special, he did something that not all chess players in history do.

Jose Raul let his ideas flow, he had a straightforward way of thinking and was very secure in himself. He would even bring new ideas o chess, with a completely logical way to play, that was … Read more

20/04/2022 No Comments

The 100 Best Players In the World ♟️

Lenier Dominguez, special Top 100 player!

Lenier Dominguez is one of the best chess players in the world, and the best from Latin America in actuality. She plays for the U.S federation right now, but he is originally from Cuba.

It’s a not very renowned player, but still is one that holds one of the highest ratings on FIDE now. He was the first and unique South American player in surpassing the 2700 ELO rating barrier.

People compare it to Jose Raul Capablanca as he has a similar style to the ex-world chess champion. He is also a chess coach and has prepared numerous classes and … Read more

19/04/2022 No Comments

07 Chess Tournaments ♟️

How do official world chess championships work?

Many people don’t understand how this works, and it is not a surprise, knowing that it is a bit too complicated. Maybe you heard here that Magnus Carlsen is the world chess champion, but you read that Maxime Vachier was the world champion.

The events held by FIDE are a bit complicated if you are not acquainted with the rules or how it works. In this post, we will explain how the world chess championships take place, and how the world champion is decided.

Information that can help you have a better track of the world chess championships when they … Read more

19/04/2022 No Comments

08 Chess anecdotes ♟️

The Full Truth: Are some chess players egocentric?

The personalities of the chess players are always a little impregnated with egocentrism. At the top level, or even at lower levels as well, you can see that all chess players at some point, show it. But, are there egocentric chess players?

Defines egocentrism as the concentration on just oneself, and not thinking about anyone else. Sometimes, this can translate into thinking that your opponent is always inferior to you.

Maybe through a comment, maybe through their action, or simply by an opinion on a certain moment. You know that, usually, their comments could result disrespecting for some, or at … Read more

18/04/2022 No Comments

08 Chess anecdotes ♟️

Anna Rudolf: Your favorite Twitch streamer!

Anna Rudolf is a former Olympian and a chess grandmaster that you can watch on Twitch. She is one of the most fun streamers that you can find on the net making content about chess.

If you are a fan of chess you have to follow her, and here we will explain to you why. Lately, Anna Rudolf has stated that all the funds risen by her streams will be donated to Ukraine in their struggle.

An excellent way to cooperate and enjoy nice content from this streamer. Remember that watching chess streams can be good for improving in chess, … Read more

18/04/2022 No Comments