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Continuing to play through Giddin's 50 Essential Chess Lessons this evening I was treated to this following attack by Judit Polgar.
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Another game from Steve Giddin's 50 Essential Chess Lessons. In this game they have both castled kingside, and White builds up a nice attack. Particularly nice is B:g7, which leads to mate. I was looking at Rh3 instead which is winning, but not f... | Read More
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Taking a break from Tarrasch this evening, I decided to start working through Steve Giddin's 50 Essential Chess Lessons. This is billed as a modern version of Chernev's Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played.
This first game features opp... | Read More
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A short video showing how to use Chess Hero to play through games using guess the move.
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Tarrasch continues his poor start to the Frankfurt tournament, missing both 13.e6! and the fork that brings the game to a conclusion. Game #73 from 300 Games.
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This has come up in a few places recently. I have been revisiting GM Andrew Soltis's Studying Chess Made Easy, to refresh my memory of the various exercises he recommends for studying. I have also been reading GM Jonathan Rowson's Chess For Zebr... | Read More
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Continuing to work my way through Tarrasch's 300 Games. Tonight was game #72, Tarrasch - Schallop, 1887. Tarrasch get his bishop pinned after a questionable trade of queens, and loses in the endgame. Cute finish by Schallop.
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I saw this on Sean Marsh's blog this morning.
GM Norm Tournament
It is a kickstarter for a GM norm generating tournament for young British masters. Hopefully they will meet their goal. | Read More
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I recently received 1st 3 books of Aagaard's latest series Grandmaster Preparation in the mail this weekend. I'm at not at a point where I will be able derive the full benefit of these books, but I did look through the introductory parts to see wh... | Read More
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I am working through Kotov's article on various pawn positions in the center and in the section on open centers he used the following game between Alekhine and Lasker at Zurich 1934 as an example of an attack being successfully carried out. Enjoy.... | Read More