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I have a confession to make, friends.
Lately, I've become a bit stagnant. Truth be told, I haven't been actively seeking challenges much since school started back. Once upon a time, I would click the "open seeks" link and accept the first ten or ... | Read More
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Yesterday's installment found your's truly in a genuinely troubled chessic state. It had been a long day and my entry was the culmination of a weird combination of positivity (as my play seemed to be improving, overall) and discomfort (as my ever-... | Read More
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Here's a little back story: The sky outside my window was dark. It was dark, but it was the kind of dark that seemed destined for sunlight - almost as if it was aching to fade away and to turn itself over to a beautiful autumn afternoon. Most of t... | Read More
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Chess.com is a great site. Obviously, right? I mean, if not, we'd all be free-for-alling it over at some lame games site like Yahoo or Pogo. But in all seriousness: This site is exceptional for a number of reasons. The dedication to chess is incre... | Read More
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In yesterday's post, I focused my exposition on a number of related things: I discussed IM Josh Waitzkin's advice that we should allow chess to be an extension of our personalities, and about how the great GM Mikhail Tal's explosive style made him... | Read More
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Backstory: It's Wednesday morning, August 26th. The time: 02:31. After a long day and a great nap, I'd woken up; I'd done some class stuff, written some math proofs and enjoyed a (late) dinner, but with nothing else to do, I had two options: I c... | Read More
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Though I'd run an outside chess forum/blog (nobody ever posted there but me), I finally worked up the nerve to start blogging here, too. It allows me greater flexibility with diagrams and the like.
So lately, I've been improving in leaps and boun... | Read More