Have you ever spent lots of time solving chess puzzles and felt like it did nothing to improve your rating past a certain point? There is actually a relatively simple fix to this problem. Instead of solving puzzles that will never occur in your ga...
Many players choose sidelines (including gambits and systems like the Hippo) because they seem to be more practical. However, this isn't necessarily true. As an experiment, I played some blitz games with sidelines I had studied in depth and then p...
In the second part of this series, I will show you another way to use chess openings data to your advantage. In this day and age, the amount of data available has skyrocketed, and chess is no exception. But data is now more difficult to understan...
Everyone who has been playing chess for even a little while learns that there are no quick shortcuts to improve at chess. However, I will teach you a useful idea that comes as close as possible. Most people have never heard of the term "metagame"....
What endgames can appear in my actual games, and what is the easiest way to remember them? This is a very common question for most chess players. Memorizing a lot of moves isn't very helpful in endgames, since the position can always be slightly d...
