ABBA Song Last week we looked at one important moment from one of our online voting matches. The link to it is HERE Our team chose to go in one direction when arguably there were at least two faster/ better ways to increase our advantage. Here is where we arrived at the end of last week’s … Continue reading "Slipping Through My Fingers (4)" The post Slipping Through My Fingers (4)...

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The other day I reached this position with Black in an online game. Can you spot my quickest win here? You’ll find the answer at the end of the post. But if you want to know what this has to do with porridge and ice cream you’ll have to read on. Czech GM David Navara … Continue reading "False Dichotomies (2): Porridge or Ice Cream" The post False Dichotomies (2): Porridge or Ice...

In my last article for The Chess Improver, we looked at a multiple pawn endgame. This week, we’ll look at a single pawn endgame with a twist. Rather than having a pawn on a square adjacent to the King with the enemy King close by, we’ll look at an endgame example in which the task … Continue reading "To Catch a Pawn" The post To Catch a Pawn appeared first on The Chess Improver.

One of my techniques in teaching positional play is to encourage students to incorporate certain typical positions in their opening repertoires; these must be rich in strategic content but at the same time understandable. One of the most important and common of these is the Queen’s Gambit Declined Exchange Variation, which is most commonly reached … Continue reading "Strategic...

ABBA Song We have been talking previously in various forms about how hard is to win a won game. This is true especially in vote chess matches. We have covered a number of such matches I have been part of. Still there seems to be no shortage of such material on a regular basis. We … Continue reading "Slipping Through My Fingers (2)" The post Slipping Through My Fingers (2) appeared first on...

You might have been wondering why I’ve been so quiet recently. The answer is very simple: I’ve become addicted to the lichess puzzle page. These puzzles, and there must be hundreds of thousands of them, are computer generated, presumably by running blunder checks on games played on the site. In each position you have to … Continue reading "Tactics Trainer" The post Tactics...

At the moment I’m busy recording a White opening course for my Tiger Chess site that I’m hoping to get out next week. It’s a White 1.d4 repertoire course which builds on the previous Building an Opening Repertoire course which featured 1.d4 followed by 2.Nf3 and then 3.e3. The new material will incorporate many lines … Continue reading "Zuked" The post Zuked appeared first...

“I no longer have any fear of pain because I’m the one inflicting it and can decide when it stops.” Maude Julien, The Only Girl in the World Please have a look at below position with black to move. You have to decide who’s better and what opening has been played: Black has a considerable … Continue reading "Self Inflicted Wounds" The post Self Inflicted Wounds appeared first...

The world of education is full of false dichotomies: two groups of people arguing that their approach is correct when in fact it’s best to take a middle course, to use a mixture of approaches depending on circumstances. Chess education is no different. I’d like to look at a few examples in an occasional series … Continue reading "False Dichotomies (1): Study Openings or...