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"Basically, you are going to tear your games to shreds, looking for every mistake you made. When you find your errors, dig in, analyze as many moves as you can until you are satisfied you had a playable game with a new move."
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Hey everyone! It's been a while since I put on my "Blog Hat", grabbed a cup of Ryan Gosling, and got to work on making some ridiculous *cough* I mean completely serious and very well thought through predictions regarding an upcoming / major chess ... | Read More
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Bullet Top 30 Players
These are the top 30 highest bullet players since the chess.com rating change in late 2011. This list does not include players with less than 30 games and any rating reached before 30 has been considered provisional.
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GM e... | Read More
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All credit for this idea goes to chess.com user: Stormstout
Milestones:
Milestone 1 - Reach chess.com tactics rating of 1800: Completed 4/2/13
Milestone 2 - Reach chess.com tactics rating of 1900
Milestone 3 - Reach chess.com tactics rating of... | Read More
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Next, here is a code for the second exercise. When a square is printed type the 'brother' or 'corresponding' square and click enter.
from random import choicefrom time import timefiles = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h']rank = [str(i+1) for... | Read More
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For those of us whose friends include command terminals, I wrote a quick little python code to do the first exercise in Daniel Rensch's 'Achieving Full Board Awareness' lectures. Save the following lines of codes to a .py file and run it at a te... | Read More
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Clockwise starting from the top left, GM Melikset Khachiyan, GM Dejan Bojkov, GM Sam Shankland, IM Daniel Rensch, and GM Eugene Perelshteyn. | Read More
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[Blog History]
You were afraid it was gone for good, but lo and behold,
your wish came true!
Not only do we have the
10th Chess.com Death-Match,
but we have TWO of IM Danny Rensch's BIG Shows,
the first of which is coming up this We... | Read More
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[Blog History]
How's it going everyone? Today, at 9:30 AM Pacific/12:30 PM Eastern/5:30 PM London time, GM Magesh Panchanathan hosted another great episode of one of Chess.com/TV's original shows, "Your Games Analyzed," in which the person w... | Read More
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[Blog History]
The Official Chess.com/TV Group Blog
Hey folks! There are a TON of free shows (which means it's open to ALL Members), coming up this Fall season on Chess.com/TV! Here is the full schedule until the beginning of November that ... | Read More
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Having been away from tournament play for several years, I decided to participate in the Milton Summer Active on Saturday. This tournament, which the organizers hope will become an annual event, was a lot of fun, with 25:00 minutes per player on t... | Read More
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I am not one to give up material early in the opening as I am too selfish, and basically shy away from playing gambits as part of my opening repertoire. A recent Member Analysis/Live game lecture by IM Daniel Rensch, being such a giving person and... | Read More
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This is more of a bookmark for myself:
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=312236793
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=319553364 (draw - queen v rooks imbalance)
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=323132959 (draw - ... | Read More
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[Blog History]
The Official Chess.com/TV Group Blog
Just to give everyone here a heads up that Chess.com/TV will be doing coverage of Game 12 of the 2012 FIDE World Chess Championship Match Monday, May 28th beginning at 5:30 AM Pacific/8:30... | Read More
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Hello everybody!
I'm Kairav Joshi, one of Chess.com University's instructors and am excited to announce my first Chess.com University course: Chess 111 – Opening Principles and Basic Openings as Black and White
When: The Seminar Will T... | Read More
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[Blog History]
Here is the remaining schedule for the month of May as it is now.
5/20 SUN. Chess.com's 5th Blitz Chess Death Match 11 am PST/2 PM EST/7 PM London (GMT -8)
GM Kacheishvili vs IM Hasbur... | Read More
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[Blog History]
The Official Chess.com/TV Group Blog
I wanted to let you know the special goings beginning tomorrow at 7 AM PST/10 AM EST/3 PM London time as Chess.com/TV covers the first of 6-games in the highly anticipated classical chess ... | Read More
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I find tactics to be one of the best and most exciting aspects of the game of chess. I have decided to post ones that I find neat or instructive, so that I may share them with my chess and facebook friends.
A dr... | Read More
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About an hour ago I played in a live simul against International Master Daniel Rensch. I think I played really well and solidly and am pretty happy with it. I did get beat in the game, but that is very much to be expected. Here is the game.
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Rensch takes down the title!
I'm in California at chess.com headquarters meeting the team this week, and got the chance to host the first ever chess.com deathmatch between IMs David Pruess and Daniel Rensch. If you missed it, check out the vide... | Read More