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7th Rank: Does it work or does it not?
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Sunday, July 20, 2014. Does it work or does it not? On this blog, I will be posting interesting things about chess, interesting details of my students and all I want to talk about chess. My 1st post is about one of my students. He missed basic backrank mates.Read below. What was the reason? I did research on the learning methods of chess. What was important to reduce blunders? What was important to slow down the really fast players? His rating still slided. He had a couple of tournaments where he had...
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7th Rank: Q vs 2P endgame puzzle
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Thursday, November 13, 2014. Q vs 2P endgame puzzle. Black to move, who wins? Based on the natural assumption that a Queen is better than 2 pawns, white has the psychological edge. Sure? We will discuss in the comments section. This is a 1500 rated problem. November 14, 2014 at 12:17 PM. I am afraid every move wins for white. My solution is Queen h2 and then the Kc4 - f4. Black can only wait and die, I think there is nothing to think. November 14, 2014 at 4:40 PM. Kc4 to f4 is the key, you got it right.
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Blunder Prone .... Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement: The Games I played ( Boston Chess Congress 2015)
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Blunder Prone . Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement. Rantings of an enthusiast. Saturday, January 17, 2015. The Games I played ( Boston Chess Congress 2015). For me, an adult with a full life outside of chess, there never seems to be enough time to prepare for a tournament, let alone any rust that forms after any long hiatus. I set aside the “poverty mind” , and signed up to play in a section higher than a comfort zone. This placed me 2. See what I recall from my past training. Another thing that ca...
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Blunder Prone .... Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement: Pawn formations Part 2: Rubinstein vs Nimzovich
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Blunder Prone . Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement. Rantings of an enthusiast. Saturday, May 29, 2010. Pawn formations Part 2: Rubinstein vs Nimzovich. A study on the pawn formations common to the Rubinstein Variation of the Nimzo-Indian Defense:. I actually tried to find an early game of Rubinstein versus Nimzovitch playing their signature lines. The closest I could come to this was a game played in 1928 in Berlin. For White, e4 is weak and supporting it will become a theme for the next several mo...
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Blunder Prone .... Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement: Pawn Formations Part 3: The Grunfeld
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Blunder Prone . Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement. Rantings of an enthusiast. Sunday, June 06, 2010. Pawn Formations Part 3: The Grunfeld. Hat tip to RC Wood. From Chess.com for providing this game with annotations. The main line for the Grunfeld Defense’s Exchange Variation follows: 1.d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 ( to immediately challenge e4) 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7. The position above reaches the main branching lines of either the Modern 7.Nf3 or the classical 7.Bc4. Other min...In my rep...
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Blunder Prone .... Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement: Despite the 4th round loss...
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Blunder Prone . Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement. Rantings of an enthusiast. Sunday, June 22, 2008. Despite the 4th round loss. I am still ahead by 3-4 rating points! I am on the threshold of 1700 which is fine as I gear up for the World Open. My last round was wild ride against an 1840 player. I was the black side of a Caro- Kann. No comments on the game yet ) I wasn't budging until he does this knight sac on h6. I thought I was going to wiggle out of a ruptured kingside. My tactical training...
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Blunder Prone .... Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement: Looking beyond the basic pawn structures : Advanced D5 chain
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Blunder Prone . Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement. Rantings of an enthusiast. Saturday, January 24, 2015. Looking beyond the basic pawn structures : Advanced D5 chain. Pawn Chains Basics to advanced concepts. Here is a game showing what happens when Black doesn’t get counter play in. This is Rubenstein Variation of the NI. Later, I will look at a a Samisch Variation of the KID … This is why I liked the book these are opening variations I typically play:. Move 15 is the critical position. Andy ...
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Blunder Prone .... Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement: Taking out my frustrations over the board
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Blunder Prone . Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement. Rantings of an enthusiast. Sunday, December 13, 2009. Taking out my frustrations over the board. 60) (Class A 1900 ) - Duval,G [Blunderprone]. B13: Caro-Kann: Exchange Variation and Panov-Botvinnik Attack. 1e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Qc7 6.Ne2 Nf6 7.Bf4 e5. I was inspired to play this line as I had seen this before in study exchange variation C-K games with this line. 8dxe5 Nxe5 9.0–0 Bd6. 14Bxd6= Qxd6 15.Qc2. This did leave me with ...
