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Loose Pieces Drop Off | Your Move! By MVP Chess

Loose Pieces Drop Off | Your Move! By MVP Chess

MVP_Chess
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"Your Move!" is the blog that puts YOU in the spotlight. Want me to feature you in the next episode? Submit your game in the comments or on my YouTube channel. Today, I review a game by @JohanVA in the Evans Gambit. Watch my analysis and visit M...

Simple ways to support your child's chess journey

Simple ways to support your child's chess journey

FM mizant
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Most parents do not have the required knowledge to guide their child on their journey through the world of chess, so they often hire a coach to take care of that. With over 20 years of experience as a chess coach and more than 10 years as a profes...

A Century of Chess: Capablanca-Lasker 1921

A Century of Chess: Capablanca-Lasker 1921

kahns
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Capablanca and Lasker first crossed paths in the mid-1900s when Lasker was living in New York and Capablanca kept drifting away from his New Jersey high school to play chess in the city. Capablanca remembered coming across "a short, middle-aged ma...

New Year! New Puzzles! Day 1-2 / 365

New Year! New Puzzles! Day 1-2 / 365

ThePawnSlayer
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This Year I have decided to try and solve the daily Chess.com Puzzle along with the American Chess Magazine Daily Puzzle! I won't upload them everyday but I will try to solve as many as I can and upload my solving of them:  Good luck wit...

What A Year: A 2023 Recap

What A Year: A 2023 Recap

The_turtlepro
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2023. I must say, we all have a good amount of experience in this year, having lived in it for a full revolution around the sun. And in this year, many things have happened. Some good, some bad, but regardless they are important events. And in thi...

The Modern Caro-Kann Antidote to 3.Nc3

The Modern Caro-Kann Antidote to 3.Nc3

GM Illingworth
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In this post, I will share with you an interesting idea against the Caro-Kann, which was first played in a Grandmaster game in 2017 (and once before that in 2014), but is now a quite trendy answer to the old main line of the Caro-Kann, with 1...

Everyone's First Strategy Kit

Everyone's First Strategy Kit

WGM TijanaBlagojevic
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Most players (1200-2200 chess.com rating) are strong in tactics and openings, but their ratings don’t show it because their positional knowledge just isn’t up to par. In other words, they can never create the circumstances to exec...

Heralding in the year of the Dragon

Heralding in the year of the Dragon

CM juniortay
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The year 2024 is deemed the Year of the Dragon (according to people of Chinese origins) and so I thought it's timely to show more Hungarian Dragon activities to herald in the new Dragon year.   Moreover, I got in a very thematic HD tacti...

The Importance Of Unlearning In Chess - Part 1

The Importance Of Unlearning In Chess - Part 1

GM Illingworth
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You may be wondering...โฃโฃWhat is ๐”๐ง๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ?โฃโฃWhy does this especially matter for ๐š๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ?โฃโฃHow can we 'unlearn' the things ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ?โฃโฃLet's discuss each of these.โฃโฃUnlearning means 'to make an effort to f...

My 2023 Year In Review

My 2023 Year In Review

NM CoachJKane
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Hey Chess Friends, We're approaching the end of another year and it's been an eventful one. My biggest chess accomplishment of the year was the publication of my Chessable course, Starting Out The Trompowsky. It's currently on sale and comes wit...

10 Black "Opening Systems"

10 Black "Opening Systems"

ThePawnSlayer
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In this blog we will discuss 10 different opening systems for black: The video explaining all of these different chess systems in practice. Check it out and let me know what you think  One of my most popular blogs was from nearly 2 yea...

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