Where Are You Schooling This Year? Hi ChessKids and Chess Parents, It's safe to say that "Back to School Season" is coming to a close. Now, we're just in school! ChessKid is here to give you some updates about how virtual schooling is progressing, and share some resources. ...

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Online Chess Tournament "Summer-2020". Game Analysis! My Dear Chess Friends! I'm starting a new tournament, but before doing it, I would like to share some analysis of some of the games played in my previous tournament! Of course, I must do it a month ago, but only today I finished this work. ...

Today's Daily Puzzle 9/29/20: Push Pawns, Weaken King Happy Tuesday Puzzlers! We're currently in the easier part of the week and below I have the past three days of puzzles. I try to come up with a lesson or theme from the daily puzzle and today's puzzle really emphasizes the issues with pushing your...

JSCC Round 1 Prediction Recap Round 1 is in the books for the 2020 Junior Speed Chess Championship. We saw the higher seed win in all eight of the first round matches. All eight of the SmarterChess predictions sponsored by ChessGoals were correct in picking the higher seed. ...

Crazy Tactical Game vs EnergeticHay, Friend and Foe! Hey guys! I have made a lot of changes to my channel and my style! Firstly, I have changed my profile picture to "The Chess Maniac." It is my new YouTube Channel name, because Chessdemon2019 as a 1-word username channel sounds weird (especially ...

Breaking The '4-Minute Mile' Of Bullet Chess... What is the '4-minute mile' of bullet chess? The 4-minute mile is often referenced when one is talking about feats that seem impossible for humans to achieve. You see, throughout the first half of the 20th century, it was thought to b...

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Master Analysis of Your games #5 + Round 1 Cattolica Open (Italy) Ahoy All, Hope everyone is doing alright and staying healthy. UK/Scotland are ramping up the Covid restrictions as we are slowly entering the winter/hibernation season. Thanks everyone who submitted their games and participated in last week's ...

How to find and solve more tactics in your games (+ Video) Of course, tactics are very important in Chess. In all levels we need to keep a sharp tactic vision, it’s a significant component of our Chess knowledge. Today we are analyzing an interesting method to be able to find and solve more tactics ...

Same Opening. Same Sacrifice. Two Wonderful Games. Two Wonderful Players. (Plus Some Natterings!) Back - after a delay - with two games that will hopefully bring a little joy. Done this at high speed, so sorry if it is a bit of a shambles. Making it up as I go along!! I am working on one of my stupidly big historical research articles ...

Karpov's 1st Loss As World Champion! - Best Of The 70's - Karpov vs. Andersson, 1975 In 1975, Anatoly Karpov had won the right to play Bobby Fischer in a much anticipated world championship match. Unfortunately, for the chess world, Fischer's intensive demands could not be met, and ultimately, Karpov was declared world champion wi...

Who Wants to be a Big Brain??? | 3000 IQ Puzzles and Calculations with Naycir I don't know about you but I sometimes have BRILLIANT chess days whereas some days my brain refuses to function. One day, I hopped on to the stream when I wasn't feeling my best and starting solving puzzles that are way above my actual rating. I...

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One day camp on October 3rd for all levels! One day camp with GMs Daniel Naroditsky, Elshan Moradiabadi and WGM Sabina Foisor Read all the details below and contact americanchessacademy@gmail.com to sign up https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SbG70t3BHBvwRPp0hMuI3Xn1puFTHgxGIL...

Road to the Grandmaster title - Woodpecker Method In the morning I decided to stop thinking and start acting I started to work on my calculation skill. I solved the first 30 puzzles in 30 minutes from the Woodpecker Method book on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo You can w...

How Threats Make You a Better Player: GM Averbakh Explains, Réti Demonstrates DEFINITION Threat, noun : an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or do any sort of evil act. In chess it is typically an intention to capture an enemy piece. But there is also threat of attack, an intention, or just a possibility to att...

Hybrid European Youth Champs show the way What do you do when Covid-19 restrictions make it difficult to hold any large-scale or even small-scale OTB chess gatherings, but players would really like to see each other after months of lockdown? Well, the hybrid European Youth Champs show ...

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Road to the Grandmaster title - The new psychology of winning Today I ran 5,3 km in 33 minutes and had a great walk in the forest with my daughter and her friend. In the morning I played a quick game before we went to the forest: I studied a few pawn endgames which I want to share with you: ...

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Use your advantage: THE List! (1) The Material Advantage is the ultimate advantage you can have during the chess battle, and the most important one in order to reach your goal: Kill your enemys king! It's good to have more or bigger chessmen than your opponent, but this si...

(Video Analysis Inside!) Today's Daily Puzzle: Skewers, Skewers Everywhere Hi all! Thank you so much for the tremendous feedback you gave on last Saturday's video analysis. I got a lot of suggestions to continue doing video analysis for every Saturday puzzle as it's the most difficult and is helpful to hear someone ...

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