Thursday, September 14, 2006

This blog is moving!

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This is the 53rd post on this blog and it will be the last under this address. I decided to move the Getting Into Chess blog to my new che...
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Friday, September 08, 2006

From the news: a brief history of cheating in chess

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After the cheating scandal at July's World Open in Philadelphia the chess blogosphere and even mainstream news media were full of report...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Mystery chess position V: messing a perfectly good endgame up

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The position shown on the right with white (me) to move is from on eof my recent games at ChessWorld . White has the material advantage and...
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Friday, August 25, 2006

How important is repetition for acquiring pattern recognition skills?

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A bit more than one month ago, I decided to start to do some regular tactics training on the Chess Tactics Server (CTS) . Using CTS to imp...
Sunday, August 13, 2006

Studying chess endgames: how important are pawnless positions?

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I finally started to study chess endgames and decided that it might be best to actually start at the beginning of the book (I am currently u...
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Monday, August 07, 2006

From the news: play chess against the ocean's tides

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Wednesday, an unusual blitz chess tournament will happen on the North Sea's ground before the German island Baltrum. The tournament wil...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Just in time endgame study part II - nearly there!

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As discussed in this previous post , it should be possible to study endgames as they are coming up during correspondence chess games. If ...