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My Diary as a Chess Player

Submitted by farbror on Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:47am.

Chess Player? Well, please allow me to define a ”Chess Player” as someone who plays chess. It would be nice to add some quality aspects to the suggested definition or perhaps to do something to improve my Chess Skills.  Anyhow, at... Read more »

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Openings for the Beginner

Submitted by farbror on Mon Jun 4, 2007 1:08am.

An Opening Repertoire for the Beginning Player First of all: The Beginning players should not memorize openings I think that is an obvious way to get bored with chess. I tried to learn some chess as a kid but I soon got discouraged from ... Read more »

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Self Studies: Stoyko Exercise

Submitted by farbror on Sun Jun 3, 2007 1:48am.

  FM Steve Stoyko has suggested the following exercise: Pick a non-static Middlegame positionTry to evaluate the main variation of each possible moveWrite down the evaluation and try to estimate the "value" of each variation. You ca... Read more »

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Claim to fame!

Submitted by farbror on Fri Jun 1, 2007 1:28pm.

This might be my only claim to chess fame. I never thought I would experience this Miniature. Read more »

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My Home Made Self Study Course

Submitted by farbror on Tue May 29, 2007 1:09am.

  My Home Made Self Study Course (T) Littlewood: "Chess Tactics", Batsford (March 28, 2005) (S) Capablanca: "Chess Fundamentals", Everyman Chess; Algebraic edition (December 1994)  (M) McDonald: "Modern Chess M... Read more »

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Self Studies

Submitted by farbror on Tue May 29, 2007 12:25am.

Well, I decided quite recently to give the Old Brain some work-out. Chess seemed like an excellent idea. I have played Backgammon and Bridge at a fairly high level. However, when I tried chess years ago I soon got discouraged from choosing a bad a... Read more »

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