A while back, I almost completely lost my motivation for chess. I felt uninspired and uninterested. Nothing seemed to be fun anymore. But on...
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Visualize this! YTRREFS
Visualization is perhaps the most important skill of a chess player. It is often said that it the ability to play through moves in your head...
Chess tactics for champions YTRREFS
Chess is 99% tactics. At least, that’s what some people say. Whether that is correct or not does not really matter, because either way you s...
Blindfold chess YTRREFS
Are you impressed by people who can play chess without seeing the board? For the uninitiated, this is a very impressive display of skill. Bu...
Questions of modern chess theory YTRREFS
A Soviet classic - that's what it says on the front cover. And for good reason, I think. At the beginning of this year, I decided I woul...
Minggu, 09 Agustus 2020
Book review
Chess improvement
Highly recommended
Intermediate
Middlegame
Strategy
Reassess your chess YTRREFS
Some books don't really need an introduction. And this is one of them. But a blog post needs one, so here we are, in the middle of an in...
Understanding middlegames YTRREFS
Have you ever found yourself unable to find a move in the middlegame? Of course you have. We all have. About ten years ago, this was a recur...
Disaster strikes YTRREFS
Chess can be brutal. It seems that at any given moment your position can go from playable (or even winning) to completely lost. I am sure it...
Nunn’s secrets YTRREFS
Let me tell you a secret. There is no such thing as 'the best chess books'. It all depends on the preferences and expectations of th...
Meet the legends YTRREFS
A while back, I set myself a challenge to memorize all the 16 undisputed world champions along with the matches they played. During this pro...
Next level patzer YTRREFS
I have a new goal. I am going to become a Grandpatzer. You read that correctly; it's not a typo. As you probably know, Grandpatzer is no...
How good is your chess? YTRREFS
Have you ever played Match the masters on Chessmaster? It is a training mode that requests you to guess the moves from various master games....
Attack the king YTRREFS
One of the finest chess books ever written. Those are tall words from the back cover of this classic book. But The art of attack in chess i...
Selling chess calculation YTRREFS
Chess calculation is a core skill in chess. Some say it's the most important skill, and that the ability to calculate deeply and accura...
Everything you need? YTRREFS
You should not judge a book by its cover. I don’t think this has ever been more true about a chess book than in this case. Lev Alburt’s Che...
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