Our mission is to enhance your enjoyment, ignite your passion and deepen your understanding of chess, as it offers a wide range of benefits for the mind and personal development. It's down to attitude, approach, and the exceptional care we extend to our customers. Our success is not only due to the quality and prices of our products. Supporting our fellow businesses in South Africa is our passion, and we continually develop products that are manufactured locally. By the winter of 2018, we proudly established our retail shop in Johannesburg, South Africa, providing our customers with the chance to explore our range of chess sets and choose the one that suits them best. Our strategy immediately set us apart from our competition, and we soon became the biggest chess supplier in the Southern Hemisphere.

We buy from the top chess producers in India, Greece, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, China, Spain, USA, Poland, the UK, and many more, to bring you the best, the world has to offer in chess! We have travelled the world in the years since, meeting and consulting with the most famous chess shops and best suppliers. We met and became friends in the summer of 2011, sharing our children's passion for chess. However, if you're a piece down in standard time control over-the-board chess, you are in deep trouble. Even if you're a piece down, you still have a high chance to win the game. In quick chess, pawn weaknesses or bad placements aren't a big deal because trying to think about all that will mean flagging out first and losing on time. However, in standard time control over-the-board chess, players have loads of time to think about why that knight is badly positioned in the corner or why that isolated pawn is a weak part of the opponent's defence. Why? These players generally do not pay much attention to their opening because, in 15 minutes, it is tough to exploit mistakes. Yury Markushin, from The Chess World, says that this kind of chess offers no real value for improving your standard time control chess. While playing online, most people commonly play so-called quick chess, with a time control of fewer than 15 minutes per game. You can't have this when you play a computer.

Like Judith Polar said, 'chess is thirty to forty per cent psychology. When playing in a tournament hall, your opponent might do everything in their power to disturb you, to make you panic, to make you scared and to lose the game finally.

That's why it's important not to get too used to the convenience and ease of playing chess online. Playing in a crowded and nervous tournament hall, fighting it out with an opponent, is very different than sitting in your underwear yelling at the computer at 3 in the morning. However, he quickly said that this was simply a training exercise, and he preferred to train and play with over-the-board chess for this very reason. GM Anish Giri explained that he spent a good deal of time playing chess online because otherwise, he would not have had the opportunity to play against other strong GMs due to his location.

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