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Tournament Preparation, Part 3: Processing Tournament Play

Tournament Preparation, Part 3: Processing Tournament Play

NM zkman
| Dec 2, 2014
| 5,020
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   Hello! My name is Zach Kasiurak. I am a National Master living in Columbus, Ohio, USA rated 2294 USCF and 2223 FIDE. I am seriously pursuing my chess career and looking to improve rapidly as a player and coach.    I have created my blog to pro...

Tournament Preparation, Part 2: Tournament Play

Tournament Preparation, Part 2: Tournament Play

NM zkman
| Nov 19, 2014
| 7,663
| 8

   Hello! My name is Zach Kasiurak. I am a National Master living in Columbus, OH, USA rated 2283 USCF and 2216 FIDE. I am seriously pursuing my chess career and looking to improve rapidly as a player and coach.    I have created my blog to provi...

Tournament Preparation, Part 1: Pre-Tournament

Tournament Preparation, Part 1: Pre-Tournament

NM zkman
| Nov 11, 2014
| 4,924
| 2

  Hello! My name is Zach Kasiurak. I am a National Master living in Columbus, OH, USA rated 2273 USCF and 2198 FIDE. I am seriously pursuing my chess career and looking to improve rapidly as a player and coach.    I have created my blog to provid...

Prophylaxis, Part 2: Test Yourself

Prophylaxis, Part 2: Test Yourself

NM zkman
| Oct 6, 2014
| 3,878
| 3

   Hello! My name is Zach Kasiurak. I am a National Master living in Columbus, OH, USA rated 2273 USCF and 2198 FIDE. I am seriously pursuing my chess career and looking to improve rapidly as a player and coach.    I have created my blog to provi...

Prophylaxis, Part 1: The Best in the Business

Prophylaxis, Part 1: The Best in the Business

NM zkman
| Sep 15, 2014
| 4,445
| 8

   Hello! My name is Zach Kasiurak. I am a National master living in Columbus, OH rated 2273 USCF and 2198 FIDE. I am seriously pursuing my chess career and looking to improve rapidly as a player and coach.    I have created my blog to provide in...

Trading Pieces, Part 2: Evaluating Trades

Trading Pieces, Part 2: Evaluating Trades

NM zkman
| Sep 5, 2014
| 4,571
| 6

    Hello! My name is Zach Kasiurak. I am a National Master living in Columbus, OH rated 2273 USCF and 2198 FIDE. I am seriously pursuing my chess career and looking to improve rapidly as a player and coach.   I have created my blog to provide in...

Trading Pieces, Part 1: Forced or Fantastic

Trading Pieces, Part 1: Forced or Fantastic

NM zkman
| Sep 3, 2014
| 5,158
| 3

   Hello! My name is Zach Kasiurak. I am a National Master living in Columbus, OH rated 2273 USCF and 2198 FIDE. I am seriously pursuing my chess career and looking to improve rapidly as a player and coach.    I have created my blog to provide in...

Update Coming Soon

Update Coming Soon

NM zkman
| Sep 2, 2014
| 1,860
| 2

Hello everyone. Sorry for the delayed post. I have just moved to Columbus and have been pretty busy. I am working on an extensive post that will go up tomorrow. Please post any games/questions you may have and I may include it in my blog! All t...

Sensing Danger!, Part 3: Test Yourself

Sensing Danger!, Part 3: Test Yourself

NM zkman
| Aug 29, 2014
| 2,687
| 0

   The final installment of Sensing Danger! Part 1 focuses on how to properly recognize a critical position.  Part 2 establishes guidelines on how to approach these critical positions. This blog post presents exercises from recent games (US Chess ...

Sensing Danger!, Part 2: Dealing with Danger!

Sensing Danger!, Part 2: Dealing with Danger!

NM zkman
| Aug 27, 2014
| 3,296
| 2

In part one I reviewed one of my own games where I did not sense the danger and payed heavily. In Part 2, I outline my thought process in another of my own games and outline methods to use in your own games to appropriately Deal with the Danger! (...

Reintroduction: Sensing Danger!, Part 1

Reintroduction: Sensing Danger!, Part 1

NM zkman
| Aug 25, 2014
| 4,168
| 8

     Hello! My name is Zach Kasiurak. I am a National Master living in Columbus, OH rated 2273 USCF and 2198 FIDE. I am seriously pursuing my chess career and look to improve rapidly as a player and coach.      I have started my blog to provide i...

Daily #3: Easy Win?

Daily #3: Easy Win?

NM zkman
| Feb 4, 2012
| 1,858
| 4

Please send me your games. I would love to analyze them! Recently: Still analyzing my games from the Cardinal Open. Please check out my last round game (http://blog.chess.com/zkman/game-analysis-kasiurak---vilenchuk) Exercises: Solution to yeste...

Daily #2: Italian Game

Daily #2: Italian Game

NM zkman
| Feb 3, 2012
| 2,287
| 0

Please send me your games! I would love to analyze them! Recently: Still analyzing my games from Cardinal open. Please take a look! (http://blog.chess.com/zkman/game-analysis-kasiurak---vilenchuk). Exercise: Solution to yesterday's exercise   ...

First Daily Post!

First Daily Post!

NM zkman
| Feb 2, 2012
| 1,714
| 3

***I Apologize for the horrible formating. It will be fixed in upcoming posts.***  Hello! My name is Zach Kasiurak. I'm 19 and from the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. I am a college student who has taken time off from school to seriously study ch...

Game Analysis Response

Game Analysis Response

NM zkman
| Feb 2, 2012
| 2,355
| 0

Excellent Post! Thank you so much for the analysis, Alex! I will try to add my own thoughts to make a huge and hopefully very informative post. Please check out Alex's very informative blog and blog post regarding this game! (http://blog.chess.c...

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