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The 4th National Arbiter Chess Seminar + Updates!

The 4th National Arbiter Chess Seminar + Updates!

ZidaneHamid
| Nov 27, 2024
| 617
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Hello everyone, and welcome back. You might have noticed that this is a blog that has come out after a lot of time, but more on that later. As the year draws to a close, and most of the world is busy with chess events around the globe, Pakistan al...

15 Unheard chess tips that will skyrocket your elo

15 Unheard chess tips that will skyrocket your elo

ZidaneHamid
| Oct 28, 2024
| 621
| 4

Chess is a game where it is all about self-improvement, but one thing to understand is that if you take a grasp of the basic chess principles, you will skyrocket your elo. In this blog post I will share 15 chess principles that everyone should mas...

How To learn Any Opening in 24 hours.

How To learn Any Opening in 24 hours.

ZidaneHamid
| Oct 22, 2024
| 530
| 4

Openings. They can be extremely tedious to remember, days to gain a basic understanding, weeks to memorize in full, and then you'll come up against a line that you've never seen before on the first moves. Today we are going to try to find openin...

The curious case of Chess

The curious case of Chess

ZidaneHamid
| Oct 19, 2024
| 444
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Hello everyone, and welcome back to your favorite series on the internet. So today, we are talking a more old fashioned and classical approach or route. Basically, we are going to be reviewing different eras of chess and I am going to rate them on...

What if sportspeople played chess?

What if sportspeople played chess?

ZidaneHamid
| Oct 17, 2024
| 300
| 3

Hello everyone, welcome back to your favorite series on the internet, and we are back with another edition of the unseen najdorf. Being a little late to the schedule because of some health issues, I decided to continue down the road of fashion in ...

7 Tips for your next OTB tournament

7 Tips for your next OTB tournament

ZidaneHamid
| Oct 10, 2024
| 746
| 5

Ladies and gentlemen, an OTB (short for Over The Board) tournament has its own thrill. Most of you who are reading this blog might play online or just for fun, but the most important thing to improve your chess is playing an OTB tournament. It has...

How To Stop The Chess Elo Tilt

How To Stop The Chess Elo Tilt

ZidaneHamid
| Oct 7, 2024
| 1,292
| 4

Tilting in chess is a real problem, it affects your performance, mood, and enjoyment of the game. Whether it be mouse slips, disoriented blunders late at night, or just bad luck, the "tilt" is something that you will experience at some point in yo...

Chess Players and their Sporting Twins (part 2)

Chess Players and their Sporting Twins (part 2)

ZidaneHamid
| Oct 5, 2024
| 370
| 11

Hello everyone and welcome back to your favorite series on the internet. A couple days ago I saw a blog post detailing Chess tournaments and their sporting twins, And I was thinking whether the same can be done with Chess Players and their sportin...

Famous Chess Players and their Sporting Twins

Famous Chess Players and their Sporting Twins

ZidaneHamid
| Oct 2, 2024
| 459
| 7

Hello everyone and welcome back to your favorite series on the internet. A couple days ago I saw a blog post detailing Chess tournaments and their sporting twins, And I was thinking whether the same can be done with Chess Players and their sportin...

How to Destroy The King's Indian

How to Destroy The King's Indian

ZidaneHamid
| Sep 30, 2024
| 260
| 0

Ladies and Gentlemen, my fellow d4 players, since the start of Chess time, we have always been gifted with the slow, positional game, that always delays us losing till the middlegame. This pattern of blissfulness has been going on for centuries, b...

The Trompowsky Attack : Attack Without Tack

The Trompowsky Attack : Attack Without Tack

ZidaneHamid
| Sep 28, 2024
| 379
| 2

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to your favorite series on the internet, opening recap. Today  we are going to be looking at the all annoying Indian Game. Seriously, in all of the times playing the famed Queen's pawn opening, the Indian Ga...

The Pakistani Chess Scene: Islamabad & Karachi

The Pakistani Chess Scene: Islamabad & Karachi

ZidaneHamid
| Sep 26, 2024
| 3,141
| 1

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to your favorite series on the internet, The Pakistani Chess scene. People and corporations keep talking about The Pakistani Food Scene (looking at you 7up), but the chess scene also deserves its fair bit of reco...

The Final Takeaway

The Final Takeaway

ZidaneHamid
| Sep 24, 2024
| 340
| 4

The Final Takeaway Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to your favorite series on the internet, the Olympiad recap. As we say goodbye to thTe 45th chess olympiad, we have to look at Team Pakistan's performance with a positive note. Despite sending an ...

The Queen's gambit investigation Finale

The Queen's gambit investigation Finale

ZidaneHamid
| Sep 10, 2024
| 174
| 3

The Queen's Gambit Investigation Finale. Hello Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your favorite series on the internet (except guess the elo), The Queen's Gambit investigation. Today is the fifth and final part of this wonderful series, and i am e...

The Queen's Gambit investigation (part 4)

The Queen's Gambit investigation (part 4)

ZidaneHamid
| Sep 8, 2024
| 205
| 3

The Queen's Gambit Investigation (part  4) Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your favorite series on the whole entirety of the internet (excluding guess the elo), The Queen's gambit investigation. We are on part four which is probably the se...

The Queens Gambit Investigation (Part 3)

The Queens Gambit Investigation (Part 3)

ZidaneHamid
| Sep 5, 2024
| 189
| 1

The Queens Gambit Investigation (Part 3) Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, and welcome back to your favorite series on the internet, The queens gambit investigation. We are back with the 3rd part, and last time we looked at the very solid and sound Sl...

The Queens Gambit Investigation  (part 2)

The Queens Gambit Investigation (part 2)

ZidaneHamid
| Sep 4, 2024
| 226
| 5

The Queens Gambit Investigation (part 2) Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen, to your favorite serious on the internet, The Queen's gambit investigation. In our last episode, we learned about what the Queen gambit, is, the main possible variations, and...

The Queens Gambit Investigation (part 1)

The Queens Gambit Investigation (part 1)

ZidaneHamid
| Sep 3, 2024
| 460
| 2

The Queens Gambit investigation Hello everyone, and welcome back to your favorite series on the internet, The Queens Gambit Investigation. If you guys follow me, you must know that the queen's gambit is my go-to opening and i use it to startle h...

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