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    • If your rating is below 1200...

      International Master Jeremy Silman is a regular columnist on chess.com and the author of many superb chess books, including The Amateur's Mind and Silman's Complete Endgame Course. In The Amateur's Mind, he writes: Don't play with fear in your ... | Read More

      • deepmax
      • | Sep 20, 2009
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    • Tools for Improving Tactical and Board Vision

      Chess.com is great: In an online (correspondence, turn-based) chess game, you can spend hours or days considering all the move possibilities and the tactical consequences stemming from a single position. Thanks to erik and the chess.com crew for ... | Read More

      • deepmax
      • | Jun 24, 2009
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    • Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

      Here is a favorite position from one of my early USCF tournament games. I had Black against an expert-rated player, and I was in trouble: White had trapped my queen earlier in the game, and my position was in tatters. My pinned bishop on g7 was lo... | Read More

      • deepmax
      • | Jun 8, 2009
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      • | 2 comments