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Learning by mistakes

Submitted by Torkil on Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:37am.

I guess everybody has heard or read that you shouldn't be grudging your own mistakes, as there is always something to be learnt from them. And consequently playing through your lost games is supposed to yield some improvement as well.   How oft... Read more »

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Team playing is fun!

Submitted by Torkil on Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:06am.

Recently I posted my first serious game with a long time control for 5 months. On Sunday, 14th of December, this team round finished, and after some heroic defensive deeds of my teammates we managed to turn the tables and moved from being 0-2 behi... Read more »

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Playing chess again

Submitted by Torkil on Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:16am.

Yesterday I played may first online team game for five months. After the long break I was happy to play again, and even got fortunate in that my opponent chose an opening line which has a bad reputation. Consequently I managed to pull of a nice wi... Read more »

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English Teaching Tournament

Submitted by Torkil on Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:36am.

The English Opening 1.c4 is the youngest of the established openings - it was taken seriously only after Mikhail Botvinnik used it with great success in the 1950ies, although it has already featured in the repertoire of world class positional play... Read more »

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my first blog entry

Submitted by Torkil on Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:35pm.

Hi everybody, this is my first try to post game, so please forgive me if the game in itself is not very substancial. Tonight I played a 16 minute game instead of the usual blitzes, thus producing a game which at least might be suitable for postin... Read more »

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