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How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part III: How To Live With It
In the previous articles How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part I: Getting The Lay Of The Land and How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part II: Your Style, I discussed the importance of having a chess opening repertoire and the issue of playing style. This should give you enough information [...]
Continue reading...How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part II: Your Style
30. May 2009
A little while ago I started discussing the subject of building a chess opening repertoire in How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part I: Getting The Lay Of The Land. I discussed which considerations play a role in building your chess opening repertoire and gave some advice. If you have not yet read [...]
Continue reading...How To Build A Chess Opening Repertoire - Part I: Getting The Lay Of The Land
25. April 2009
Introduction Are you struggling to define a good opening repertoire for yourself? Then continue reading. Probably one of the most discussed topics in chess is that of having a good, solid, attacking, defensive, broad, specialized, surprising or otherwise useful opening repertoire. I must admit it has always been a challenge for me to construct an opening repertoire. In [...]
Continue reading...Win A Free Chess Game Analysis Cycle!
30. November 2008
Read On And Win A Free Chess Game Analysis Cycle!
Continue reading...How To Fight Perfectionism In Chess
17. November 2008
A short essay on the plasticity of the brain and the consequences that has on fighting your chess flaws.
Continue reading...Loek van Wely: “I do not believe in the innocence of top chess players. “
27. September 2008
Renzo Verwer's interview with Loek van Wely was published before in Dutch. I was referred to it by Renzo and decided to post it because of the remarks that Van Wely makes about himself and top players regarding the psychology of the game. I hope you find it entertaining!
Continue reading...What Is T.B.W.E.M.P.L.(S.) And How It Can Help You!
16. August 2008
T.B.W.E.M.P.L.(S.) is an acronym. Each individual letter is the first of a sin, a chess sin. Have you ever heard of “The Seven Deadly Chess Sins”? No? Well, now you will. “The Seven Deadly Chess Sins” is a book by Scottish grandmaster, philosopher and psychologist Jonathan Rowson. In it he addresses the psychological side of playing [...]
Continue reading...How To Study Chess
9. August 2008
Waldemar, how do I study chess? People often ask me that question. And it’s a useful question of course. How does one improve his chess? How does one go about it? In this article I shall discuss some of the most common and accepted ways to improve one’s chess based on my own experiences and [...]
Continue reading...The Power of Routine and How to Attain It
5. August 2008
By Suren Leosson Routine is something which most people would like to have in their lives, to a greater or smaller extent. Routine plays a big role in my life as a student of spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy, and it is also one of the things I stress as a chess coach for [...]
Continue reading...Intuition And Decision-Making In Chess
15. June 2008
By Suren Leosson Great chessplayers are usually depicted as masters of calculations: men who can see far into the future of the chessboard. However, those who strive for mastery at chess know that calculation is merely one component of good chess. Just as in life, it is sometimes more important to feel what the right course [...]
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1. July 2009
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