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In a thread about Jeremy Silman's "The Amateur's Mind", a few members of chess.com sang the praises of Artur Yupusov's "Build, Boost, Evolve" series of chess books. Intrigued, I found a copy of the first book of the series "Build up your Chess: ... | Read More
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I was able to win a game, as Black, against an opponent rated 300 points higher than me. Here's that game with my commentary, some variations. Feel free to give me comments!
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tl;dr: 2 victories (one not deserved), 2 defeats because I was not careful and deviated from chess principles.
Since I have a lot of homework this week, I'm not going to add commentary to these games, just post them as is, but I'm going to write ... | Read More
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tl;dr: 3 wins, 1 loss, lots of blunders.
[Edit: In the games, I'm playing the side that's on the bottom of the board. That means Black for games 1 and 4, White for games 2 and 3.]
I went to chess club again this afternoon and had a blast again... | Read More
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Although I got beat up really badly last time I went, I was at the weekly chess club on Saturday afternoon, ready to play some chess! This weekend, I actually won all four games I played! I'd like to discuss them a little bit. Unfortunately,... | Read More
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There's a saying in the Go world: "lose your first 100 games as quickly as possible". Well, this afternoon at chess club I lost every single one of my games. I can't say I was playing well either, I was not able to concentrate. Hopefully, 49... | Read More
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I played a very interesting game of chess with a colleague of mine this week. We've played chess a few times this summer, and I think this is the first game where nobody made a very bad tactical blunder that cost the game.
1.d4: I've bee... | Read More
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At the end of June/beginning of July, I decided that I wanted to play chess and become better at it. How am I doing three months later?
My rating at online chess on chess.com is better than it was then, but I'm growing a bit weary of this fo... | Read More
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Last month, I reviewed Yasser Seirawan's "Play Winning Chess". In that review, I expressed some reservations about the lack of depth of the book and mentioned that I would hold back judgement until I read the other books in the series. Today, ... | Read More
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I was doing tactics problem this afternoon, and I was having a lot of fun, and I was quite happy with my performance, but after about an hour, I started moving before I even considered the consequences of my moves and I got frustrated that I misse... | Read More