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Knowing how to gain and keep the opposition is essential in pawn endgames. But, the opposition is not an end in and of itself. Opposition is useful only when it leads to an outflanking maneuver. Sometimes the outflanking comes first, leads to gain... | Read More
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Garry Kasparov said that today's chess players are all children of Chess Informant. This morning I posted "Reading Annotations" on my Chess Skills blog. Therein, I discuss some of my thought processes and research methods in a game that I won than... | Read More
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Social Chess is a vastly overrated chess app for iPads/iPhones. It is rated five stars by users who compare it to Chess with Friends, but who seem wholly ignorant of Chess.com and its standard setting chess app.
I wrote a review of Social Chess o... | Read More
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I scored a win in a minature this afternoon.
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Paul Keres created a favorable endgame that he could win against Vasily Smyslov.
See my discussion athttp://chessskill.blogspot.com/2011/04/active-rook.html
Replay the game here.
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I am poring through the games of Vasily Smyslov from the beginning. My iPad has an old database of his games that I downloaded from Guenther Ossimitz's megasite several years ago. There are some available games missing from this database, and the... | Read More
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In correspondence chess, players use books and databases to aid them in the opening, and sometimes in the ending as well. Tablebases, on the other hand, are generally forbidden when engines are not allowed. It's a rare game that reaches a posit... | Read More
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Ever since the dawn of civilization, humans have sought help in games of chess that did not conclude in a single sitting. Such help takes many forms. Sometimes the help is actively encouraged. Other times it is forbidden.When I was young, top l... | Read More
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Among the attractive features in correspondence chess is the research element. In ancient times, serious correspondence players with the means and the space built up huge libraries of chess books and periodicals. When Chess Informant come into ... | Read More
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A quick search of the App Store for the Apple iPad shows that more than two dozen applications are now available. Certainly many of these are or will become available for the Droid Xoom, Galaxy Tab, and similar devices. With so many choices, how d... | Read More