Recently, I caught a clip of Kasparov that looked ancient on YouTube. It was all blurry and the screen was square like it was broadcast on an old TV. It must have been from the 80s or 90s. In the clip, Kasparov was talking to a TV presenter about ...
My last article was full of excuses. I was giving myself all kinds of sympathy and breaks because my ego was hurt. To be fair, I think I needed that kindness to rekindle the joy back into my chess life and I don’t regret going easy on myself to re...
Welcome to my new series on chess study methods. I talk a lot about them in my Adult Beginner Diary Series, but in this series I want to take a much closer look at some of the methods of studying chess that really interest me and talk to some of t...
Chess is pain.This month's article is taking on a much different form than I expected it to when I hit publish on last month's article. A few days after I posted that, I lost a rapid game, and fired up another in tilt - this is the first time I br...
Once upon a time a man was reading Yuri Averbach’s Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge. The man's son was sick and he hadn’t slept much the previous night. His alarm went off at the usual time and he got up yawning and rubbing his eyes. This was no...
Hello chess friends, I'm going to try to do these updates monthly from now on because I like writing them. The idea is to keep the same format with me writing about what I’ve been up to, how I have been training and sharing anything useful I have ...
Firstly I want to say that I was completely overwhelmed by the response to my first article: My First Six Months in Chess. I didn’t expect anyone would read it. But it was really touching to read so many positive comments on the post itself and on...
Hello fellow chess players, today I want to share with you the journey I have taken as an adult beginner in my first six months of chess, in this time my rating has increased by almost 300 points from 800 to 1100. I want to share my insights from ...
