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Thinking Your Way to Chess Mastery

Submitted by IM dpruess on Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:36pm.

I'm happy to announce a new chess TV program coming to chess.com, beginning this coming Monday. The show will air at 2 pm pacific. The program is entitled "Thinking Your Way to Chess Mastery." It will cover some tense and high level clashes, and ... Read more »

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Tal Memorial on Chess TV

Submitted by IM dpruess on Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:41pm.

Yesterday, I covered a very exciting round of the Tal Memorial in Moscow, along with fr0ggE and a guest appearance of GM Jesse Kraai. This is one of the strongest tournaments I can recall ever witnessing, and so far the games have been fantastic. ... Read more »

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Two Devastating Defeats

Submitted by IM dpruess on Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:13am.

Ok, tourney's over, and I have a little more free time and energy to fill you in on what happened. I already showed two of my best played games, lest you get the idea that I only want to gloat, and not to face the bad things that happen to me, her... Read more »

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A Beautiful Game

Submitted by IM dpruess on Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:59pm.

I need all my time to prepare, so I'm not going to say much, or enter any of the variations. I'll edit this post tomorrow to include more. For now here it is; mission accomplished! Edit: A little background on this game. Looking at his games in t... Read more »

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An Exciting Game

Submitted by IM dpruess on Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:54pm.

First off, sorry for not being able to get online more often and post my games and results from France. Just how it is for this one. But I do have a chance to post one of my games now, and it's quite an exciting one! My goal coming here was to pa... Read more »

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Your Games Analyzed Ep. 5

Submitted by IM dpruess on Thu Oct 1, 2009 7:48pm.

Episode 5?? Wow! Hope you all enjoyed the fantastic game we looked at today. The part of the game we looked at was definitely at a master level, so everyone who wanted to see a master level game on this show, how satisfied were you? Let me know w... Read more »

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Columnist Switch Revealed

Submitted by IM dpruess on Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:44am.

Last week (Sept 13-18), our daily columnists tried their hands at each other's columns. At the same time, I promised prizes to two players who could guess all 6 columnists' identities. Yes, I like guessing games. The actual identities of last wee... Read more »

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Your Games Analyzed Ep. 3

Submitted by IM dpruess on Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:37am.

Here is the game from yesterday's broadcast to view: Next week's program will again be Thursday 5 pm pac. All programs can be watched on-demand at chess.com/tv Read more »

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Your Games Analyzed Ep. 2

Submitted by IM dpruess on Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:51am.

Here's the game analyzed today with some variations: I'd like to encourage some masters at chess.com: I want to analyze a master-level game on next week's program, so I hope some of you will come participate then. Anyone who missed today's broa... Read more »

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3 Instructive Quizzes

Submitted by IM dpruess on Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:31pm.

Last night, my beloved SF Mechanics took on the defending champion Dallas Destiny in US Chess League play. I'm not writing this blog in order to tout their match victory, though I was quite excited about it. Rather, it struck me that there were a ... Read more »

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