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I am working through Kotov's article on various pawn positions in the center and in the section on open centers he used the following game between Alekhine and Lasker at Zurich 1934 as an example of an attack being successfully carried out. Enjoy.... | Read More
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The following is from Vladimir Zak's book Improve Your Chess Results. Zak was a famous trainer in Leningrad, who counted Spassky and Korchnoi among his pupils.
"Annotating a game takes 12-16 hours on average. For convenience, the whole task may b... | Read More
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So how do other people use the tactics trainer for improvement? Obviously it helps with pattern recognition. On chess.com I do the timed problems, so it is mainly exercising chess intuition. On chesstempo.com I do the non-timed where I am focused ... | Read More
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In the book Developing Chess Talent there is an interview with David Bronstein where he states many interesting things, one of which is "The secret of the Russian Chess School is that we studied a position until it's very end".
Other quotes and ... | Read More
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This method is suggested in the book Developing Chess Talent. The website for the book is http://www.chesstalent.com/.
1. Play through the game and try to understand the comments. Write down moves and comments that you don't understand and pre... | Read More
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I have been working through this chapter of the Keres & Kotov book The Art of the Middle Game. Having just started the section on mobile centers, we are greeted with a position from the game Konstantinopolsky - Kotov.
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I got to play through a fragment of this game today as I continue to work my way through Chess Strategy for Club Players. This game is an example given in the chapter on weakened king positions. Kasparov was 14 when he played this game. Enjoy!
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I played through the last of the games from St. Petersburg 1909 today. This game from round 18 was a nice one.
Chessbase put out a CD some years ago that contained what they considered the 50 best tournaments of all time. So to continue th... | Read More
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I was looking through the 1st round games of St. Petersburg 1909, going through them quickly as Jeremy Silman recently suggested studying master games for pattern recognition in an article on here. Akiva Rubinstein's game though made me stop and g... | Read More
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It has been a hectic few months with my newborn daughter, but she is doing well and is ahead of where they expect her to be since she was 8 weeks premature.
I have started to get back into chess study this past week. I gave up in disgust right af... | Read More