BCG1 asked: As one of our foremost pedagogues I am asking for your advice on students who insist on repeating mistakes over and over and over again. I have pleaded, cajoled and finally, in desperation, resorted to corporal punishment, with some s...
Anonymous asked:I thought chess was supposed to be a gentleman’s game, but at times my opponents act rudely during tournament play. What can I do about this?Dear Anonymous:During a tournament in Los Angeles, two players got into a fight while play...
International Master Andrew Martin from England presents a regular series of articles to answer any questions that Chess.com readers have about the game of chess. If you want to ask Andrew a question, then send an email to askandrew@chess.com and...
I learned to play chess in the Merchant Navy when I was seventeen. I loved the game and soon became the ships champion. Although it appeared that I had a talent for chess, it was too bad that I never had any proper training so I became a wood-push...
I'm not sure if I am allowed to post this here since this is not my article. The source of the article can be found here. http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article01210802.aspx I thought it was very interesting and didn't want to keep you guys ...
"There just ain't no pity. No, no, no, in the naked city, yeah—New York City." (excerpt from a blues Bobby was singing several years ago) Not going in the emotional area is difficult, as most of us are deeply human. Destroy...
"Shakespeare also was a terrorist : "words, words, words...he said." It's just about some considerations, nothing purely technical: About my nickname : An article about Fischer on the web touched me deeply in 06, the title was : ...
When an author, under the Acknowledgment section writes, "For a book like Treasure Chess it is not easy to cite where all my references and impressions came from, so I'm not even going to try," I became intuitively doubtful that ...
Responses to and by Rene Chun for her article to Bobby Fischer´s Pathetic Endgame Rene Chun's description of the decline into paranoi...
Responses to and by Rene Chun for her article Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame Rene Chun's description of the decline into paranoia (whether clinical or not) of Bobby Fischer ("Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame," December Atlantic) offers a dee...
By the 11th game Bobby was psychologically unfit to play safe. He wanted victories. Here was the weakness so many commentators had uncovered - an inability to pace himself in a prolonged struggle and thereby allow an opponent the oppor...
THE SERIOUS PART: One of the first things a teacher does with a new student in elementary school is assess their existing level of knowledge. In literacy this is done with an IRI (Informal Reading Inventory). What does the student know about...
