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Fischer-Robatsch 1-0.Fischer wins in 20 moves. Did Fischer play so strongly, or did Robatsch play so poorly? We answer. It is 1962. For Fischer, it is a breakthrough year, when he significantly improved his level of play. But, you know what? This game made us laugh. Fischer’s greatness… it can all be blown away like a candle flame.

Our computer is no Fischer, but our variations definitely surpass Fischer’s play. In them, Robatsch rises above Fischer high, very high. Thus, this game debunks the myth of the greatness of grandmasters. Simply put, others played weaker. And today, our analyses show that the greats did not play so strongly that the outcome of their games could not be reversed. A long time ago, one of the most famous chess theorists and authors of chess aphorisms, Siegbert Tarrasch, said: ‘To win, you don’t have to play strongly. You just have to play better than your opponent.’

At Goldchess, this is outdated and no longer applies. It has lost its power. Because in our definition, that’s not what chess is about. For us, winning means showing something in chess, not winning for the sake of winning. Such games are meaningless. For chess achievement, chess thinking and the development of chess. And this Fischer-Robatsch game is an excellent example of this. For this game, won with black, you can obtain the highest Platinum Certificate of Professional Chess Trainer. Of course, after winning silver and gold earlier.
A game of chess is a creative endeavour. If you are not being creative, you should consider whether you should continue playing chess.

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4 levels of chess coach qualification.
Our website features a qualification test-exam for coaches, which, once passed, entitles the chess player to obtain a Level I Chess Coach Certificate.
We estimate that 90% of chess ‘coaches’ will not obtain our certificate. What does this mean?
1. Generally speaking, that they are unqualified or insufficiently qualified, since they are unable to win a position against an educational computer with a playing strength of 1500 Elo.  In other words, they are unreliable.
2. That they can teach something about playing chess, but they are certainly not able to train a true master.

After the establishment of the Goldchess school, the ranking position obtained at the FIDE institution is no longer a reliable or full-fledged qualification to practise as a chess coach.
This test is the first level of initiation.
We have 4 levels. Those who pass this basic test will gain access to the next game-task and will be able to obtain a Level II Chess Coach Certificate. This is followed by levels III, IV and V. Three levels are technical, the fourth is educational, and the fifth is the final coaching exam. The strength of the Goldchess educational project is that no chess computer can help anyone win the test tasks.

Do you have a coach who teaches you how to play chess and charges you for it? Ask them if they have a Goldchess coaching certificate and you will know for sure. They either have the qualifications or they don’t.
The first degree certificate (game number 5) can be obtained here:

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I have always said that Armenian chess players are brilliant, even genius. First there was Sargis Manukyan, then Armenak Yeghiazaryan and the younger players, Alex Nurijanyan, Arman Ghevondyan and Sahak Petrosyan. Those who played in Goldchess and made a name for themselves have repeatedly shown what they are capable of. They are not in the top 100, but the best chess players in the world could learn a lot from them. They have made a huge contribution to the development of Goldchess by sending their own brilliant and often genius solutions and variations. Today, Sahak found our variation from the Stockfish-Houdini position, mate with three queen sacrifices. After the third sacrifice, which was not accepted, we can already checkmate, but we can also add another 4 sacrifices and then checkmate. This is a modernisation of Stockfish’s game. And based on this game, we can safely say that Stockfish will only play like this in about 100 years, because it is still far from matching the capabilities of the human brain.
 Congratulations to Sahak, the prize and the title of Goldchess Genius. See this game.
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Dear chess players, the world is divided into rich and poor, that is, rich and poor countries. And it is easy to classify this in chess. In Europe or the USA, every chess player has a computer or laptop.

We point this out because it is here (on the Goldchess website) that you need a computer to participate in online tournaments.

So yes. In 3rd world countries, one in 10 chess players has a laptop. In 4th world countries, one in a hundred.

In 5th world countries, one in a thousand. Get your bearings and you’ll know what country you live in and how far you are from real civilisation. I’m not going to make a list and order here now, I’ll just say that two well chess-developed countries, India and Russia, are at the far tail in this classification.

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Lagrave-Gukesh 1-0

This win is pure fiction. Like, indeed, most of the games in this and every other tournament. Only a point for Lagrave and nothing else is obvious. Modern tournament chess has it that winning games are not justified in chess analysis. That is, a fictitious win. But this is what both organisers and chess players are content with. It is like a training game, and yet seriously, as the result goes out into the world. And there is virtually no solution in sight. How could this situation be fixed or cured.

 Some alternative is Goldchess. Here, in tournaments from a given position and against a computer that can be played because it is not playing at 3000 Elo level, but 1500, in most cases such flukes and runaway wins do not happen. To win, you have to show extraordinary and effective chess. Of course, the computer also has its weaknesses and makes mistakes, but nevertheless, if one compares the two types of tournaments, traditional and Goldchess, the error rate in traditional is 90%, in Goldchess only 10%. This means that Goldchess is more correct and therefore more valuable as chess stricto sensu and more educational, in the full and proper sense of the word.

At a time when the telephone has become an essential but also a curse, Goldchess is a saviour.
In our tournaments no one will play from a phone, a chess player must have a computer. This cuts off phone chess players and quite rightly so, because you can’t really play serious chess on the phone. Chess on the phone is a profanation of the royal game and a cheapening of it, to the obvious detriment of its quality. At this point we are consciously giving up on the number of players who can play with us, but given that the games played on the phone are poor quality games, practically chess spam, and the chess players who play them are spam chess players, we are able to get over this quantitative loss. To conclude, we need champions, or those who want and aspire to become champions. And we can help them in this.

I would also like to refer to the so-called Fischer chess, which is a new fashion and to which even Carlsen himself has succumbed.

In our opinion, it is a chess fiction, a total misunderstanding. By comparison, Goldchess is 100 times more valuable, spectacular and educational. Smart. And they contribute a lot to the development of chess.
Goldchess , as the artificial intelligence formulating its own conclusion wrote in the opinion, is likely to become a worldwide phenomenon. Fischer’s chess started quickly and will end quickly. They are, as I said, a distortion and do not contribute any value or anything to the development of real chess. In a few years they will be gone, whereas Goldchess will be part of the chess reality for decades and who knows if not centuries to come. For this reason, I can say that it is already impossible to be a good chess player without knowing the techniques, style and knowledge of Goldchess. Goldchess, a real chess trend. But not for everyone. Only for chess players who take chess seriously. And, in an unintentional, elitist way. Only for chess players who own computers.

Capablanca voiced an opinion on the superiority of endings over debuts. To this day, this causes controversy among supporters of debuts. Like Karpov, Kasparov or Carlsen. Although Carlsen doesn’t make a statement about which is more important, he only says that when learning to play chess, he spent a lot of time on debuts.

But. Capablanca did not say that he negates debuts and their importance. He said that he prefers to devote time or more time to endings as debuts. That they are, for him or in his opinion, more important. This does not mean that he thought it was possible to win at chess without an elementary knowledge of debuts.

We announce a third, our theory. In our opinion, the middle game, after the debit, is the most important. That’s when real chess begins. And the debut? You should come out of the debut without losing a piece or a pawn and with the pieces well set up for attack. Of course, an elementary knowledge of these is absolutely necessary. A lesser knowledge of them will only result in the opponent using up 2 minutes for his moves in the debut, and, knowing debuts less well, 10 minutes. And that’s basically it.

ps.
Today, before the 11th game referring to the statement in the previous post (Fb website) that Gukesh will attack with white, I wrote:

I assume that Gukesh will attack in the 11th game, playing with white. And this is what happened.
Gukesh won with white. Of course, this is not the end of the match, but he leads by one point.

2 tasks unsolved in the Goldchess competition – Grandmaster Corner and Chess Miracles.
Are they beyond the capabilities of today’s chess players?If so, has Goldchess come to a standstill? No, it is the chess players who have stood still, who are not developing. Playing against each other they are spinning at the same level as 10 years ago.
Admittedly, new, young, brilliant chess players like Gukesh, with no experience or knowledge, are appearing and winning! This is because, like us, they have penetrated further into chess, while the general public stands still.

Another reason that the competition tasks are not solved, may also be that young, intelligent chess players, with imagination and a new outlook on chess, have not yet come to us. Who will discover Goldchess for themselves and the others, the entire chess population.

So we invite all such to Goldchess, and especially the multi-million-strong crowd of tournament chess players, because this is also, or even primarily, your place here.
In the world of modern chess.