Whether you’re brand new to chess or have played many tournaments, improving often comes down to fixing the simple, avoidable mistakes we all make—but don’t always recognize. Over the years as a coach and player, I’ve seen ...
Hello! I am currently accepting new students for the summer, so email me at jtstorn@gmail.com if you are interested! I can help discover your weaknesses, fix those weaknesses, create a study plan, and much more. I have a lot of experience with a...
Titled Tuesday is now every Tuesday at 1pm EST So I'm going to start playing and commenting on my games at twitch.tv/thechesscoach My goal is to make it as instructive as possible for me and whoever watches, so please tune in and follow me on t...
I ended my last blog with a rating of 2182 and it took me 3 crazy tournaments to get to master. I will show the highlights of how I reached my goal! Aristo My first tournament was the National Grade Level Championship. I was playing a 2270, an...
The Comeback. After a bad start this year, I was able to study chess a lot near the end of summer. I think that this improved my play tremendously, right now I feel like I'm a master strength-wise. One of the important things that helped my 100...
The struggle. Since my last blog post, my rating has dropped tremendously, which is strange because other aspects of my game have improved, such as tactics. My overwhelming problem is winning won games. I constantly get good positions and don't...
Hello! I haven't written many blogs yet, but I want to record my progress and improve from it. I have a goal of being a chess master asap (I keep trying to set a time, but it isn't working). Anyway, I have played in a large number of tournaments...
Going into the 2016 us open, my rating was 1969. My goal was to achieve expert. Goal Achieved! Here I'm going to show you 2 of the games that boosted my rating a lot. In the entire tournament I played 7 2100's! I won 2 (shown above) drew ...
http://www.uschess.org/assets/msa_joomla/XtblMain.php?201508088772-15157654 I finally got past 1800. In a 3 round tournament I got 2nd out of 4 people. In the first round I played the highest rated player in the section The second round I p...
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=1238380238 I think this was also the first time I have played an FM in blitz.
