Thinking about thinking YTRREFS

How should you think during a chess game? This is a critical question. Chess is a thinking game, and therefore, improving your game means im...

Learn chess tactics YTRREFS

Where should you turn for tactics training? This is a frequently occuring question, not only from beginners, but also from intermediate play...

Lessons with a Grandmaster YTRREFS

If you had actual lessons with a grandmaster, would you be brave enough to publish the transcripts? Well, someone did. And that someone wrot...

David vs Goliath II YTRREFS

What is it that separates a grandmaster from an amateur player? This is a topic of several books, and it is also a question that I've as...

Judgement and planning YTRREFS

Some books "fly under the radar" and do not get the same attention as the evergreen classics. But sometimes, there is gold in old ...

Lessons from a legend YTRREFS

What if you could get chess lessons from a former world champion? Would you say yes? This is a question that Kostya Kavutskiy asked in a rec...

Stop and reassess! YTRREFS

In my very first post on this blog, I reviewed The Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman. That was my first step to understand chess strategy...