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What are some good chess topics to write about?
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maybe anything important that happens, like big blunders or big wins, so others can learn more? I’m not really sure
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Take some of the best chess games of a specific player (e.g. Colle, Tartakower, etc.) from chessgames.com and write about them
Write about the steamy relationship between e5 and f7, that’s always a hot topic.
What does it take to become a chess master, genetics or training? And then use the KIBRA study about chess smarts and DNA. Just Google “KIBRA gene chess” you could use the example of the Polgar family to talk about the training side and show the game where Judit Polgar came out of retirement to beat WC Magnus in 20 moves that’s on YouTube.
Good tactics top players use
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I’ll be writing about the absurd naming of things. For instance, this site and others use the term “blind swine mate”. Janowski, who is credited with the term “blind swine” was referring to pigs that “grunt out checks but cannot find checkmate”.
See https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/janowsky.html
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Write a blog about comparing Magnus Carlsen to Hikaru Nakamura, or another top player, and note their playing styles and overall accuracy/strength. It might be interesting to see.
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Chess interaction with society, such as legal impositions, gender, chess games/players represented in film, bad behavior in chess, why are so many top-rated payers so vile---Alekhine was a fascist collaborator, Fischer was an avowed bigot, Short is a misogynist, what games has chess influenced, a lot of material here
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