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    • How to Deal with Mistakes in Chess - Part III

      This article is a follow-up on How To Deal With Mistakes In Chess-II Reason 4: You insufficiently posed your opponent "real" problems It is also important to pose "real" problems to your opponent. Real problems are not just problems that lead to... | Read More

      • Waldemar
      • | Sep 10, ‘09
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    • How to Deal with Mistakes in Chess - Part II

      This article is a follow-up on How to Deal with Mistakes in Chess - Part I Reason 3: You did not play sharp enough yourself and/or did not believe enough in the strength of certain moves Closely related to the previous phenomenon is the seeing o... | Read More

      • Waldemar
      • | Aug 27, ‘09
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    • How to Deal with Mistakes in Chess - Part I

      About mistakes as the defining characteristics of a chess game.In this article I claim that a chess game cannot be won if the opponent does not make a mistake. In that sense it is impossible to have any influence over the outcome of a game. If you... | Read More

      • Waldemar
      • | Aug 19, ‘09
      • | 2663 views
      • | 10 comments
    • How To Fight Perfectionism In Chess

      The Pubering Brain I just watched a weekly Dutch television show called “Boeken” (”Books”). In it the host interviews writers about their new books. Today the guest was Eveline Crone. She is a psychologist and researches the developing br... | Read More

      • Waldemar
      • | Aug 2, ‘09
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    • How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part III: How To Live With It

      In the previous articles How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part I: Getting The Lay Of The Land and How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part II: Your Style, I discussed the importance of having a chess opening repertoire and the issue... | Read More

      • Waldemar
      • | Jul 1, ‘09
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    • How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part II: Your Style

      A little while ago I started discussing the subject of building a chess opening repertoire in How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part I: Getting The Lay Of The Land. I discussed which considerations play a role in building your chess openin... | Read More

      • Waldemar
      • | Jun 11, ‘09
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    • Experiment! Live Commentary On Harikrishna - Morozevich v.v., Odessa 2007

      Hi all,Today I did an experiment live commenting two blitz games from the 2007 Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup in Odessa. It concerns Harikrishna - Morozevich & Morozevich - Harikrishna.The first video is of bad quality, the second one is already bett... | Read More

      • Waldemar
      • | Apr 29, ‘09
      • | 1096 views
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    • How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part I: Getting The Lay Of The Land

      Introduction Are you struggling to define a good opening repertoire for yourself? Then continue reading. Probably one of the most discussed topics in chess is that of having a good, solid, attacking, defensive, broad, specialized, surprising or o... | Read More

      • Waldemar
      • | Apr 28, ‘09
      • | 1498 views
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    • Chess Puzzle #4: Solution!

      Hi all, last week I posted Chess Puzzle #4. Below you will find the solution. Enjoy! Waldemar Chessedelic.comChess Improvement for Amateur Chess Players | Read More

      • Waldemar
      • | Apr 25, ‘09
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    • Chess News #35: Karjakin - Aronian, Nalchyk 2009 (playing time: 9 min.)

      Hi all,Yesterday Sergey Karjakin managed to win an interesting game against big gun Levon Aronian.Normally Aronian is very solid, but this time he was a bit too vulnerable and must have been baffled by the young Ukrainian’s play. Chessedeli... | Read More

      • Waldemar
      • | Apr 18, ‘09
      • | 1101 views
      • | 1 comment