Opening Tree Search Online
Chessok, has made available online an opening tree search. You can now receive detailed statistics on all opening moves carefully classified and stored in their opening database.
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Advice from Nimzowitsch
My game has suffered recently, but I am more determined than ever to improve…so the following quote should help me on my way: Settle on your objective is the rule. Such an objective may be a pawn or a point. Which one, it matters not. But aimlessly drifting from one to another, this will expose…
1st Annual Miami Chess Open
Photo report of the Miami Chess Open held from September 28th through September 30th. Photography: William Mendez © 2007 Hikaru Nakamura wins the 2007 Miami Chess Open Photography: William Mendez © 2007 U.S Champion Alexander Shabalov Photography: William Mendez © 2007 IM David Pruess contemplates the position
Chess Engine Playing Styles
Fritz: Tactical, but positionally sound. Well rounded. Hiarcs: Positional and human-like play. Good in unbalanced positions. Junior: Very tactical, sacrificial style play. Rybka: Strongest chess engine. Excellent positional understanding and human-like play. Excellent evaluation of dynamic positions. Great for analysis. Shredder: Very positional and solid. Excellent endgame play. Zappa: Human-like play, aggressive. Very strong, catching…
King and Pawn Endgame with Pawns on Both Wings
The following endgame example illustrates how to turn a one pawn advantage into a win: The conversion of an extra pawn falls into three phases: 1) the King is activated. 1.Kf1 1…Ke7 2.Ke2 Kd6 3.Kd3 Kd5 2)Mobilization of the majority. 4.b4 Mobilize by moving the “candidate”, which is the unopposed pawn.4…Kc6 5.Kc4 h5 6.a4 h4…
List of Educational Chess Games
In a previous post I had promised to compile and post the most instructive games in ChessBase format. I haven’t been able to get around to compiling all of the games, so I am posting a PDF file containing a list of these Educational Chess Games based broken down by themes.
Training Notebook 8.13.07
Today is the first entry of my online training notebook, I’m still trying to figure out how I will work this out, but I plan on adding an entry with the salient topics that I covered as well as personal progress and benchmark data. I also plan on adding a downloadable ChessBase file which will contain additional positions,…
Poor Thinking Process
The best thing I can do for my chess is to improve my thinking process, which is one of my greatest weaknesses. Below are some of the reasons why it my thinking process just plain stinks. Not considering the consequences of a move at least 3 ply deep on every play. Focusing too much on…
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Back to Basics
I have come to the realization that there comes a time in every improving players game where we try to apply all we have learned yet we end up losing more games than we win. The improving player needs to realize that reading more chess books, learning a new opening or practicing obscure endgames is…