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Tactical Magic: June 2013
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Tactically interesting chess games and examples of chess tactics. Sunday, June 23, 2013. Announcing my YouTube channel. I'm not updating this blog anymore, obviously, but I do have a chess oriented YouTube channel: Jim's Chess Channel. The channel features blitz games with live commentary, postmortems, and a series called Chess Basics, that covers topics that "every chess player ought to know". Here's a sample postmortem video of a game I played over the board: www.youtube.com/watch?
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Tactical Magic: September 2009
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Tactically interesting chess games and examples of chess tactics. Wednesday, September 30, 2009. FEN "r2q1r2/1bp2pk1/p1nppnpp/1p6/3PN3/2PB1NQ1/PP3PPP/R4RK1 b - - 0 17"]. Black to move, white just played Bd3. }. Second best is Nxe4 (-1.77) or Nxd4 (-1.72), best is Nh5 (-2.36). }. Nxd4 and Nxe4 are similar, because after Nxe4 Bxe4, Nxd4 is played. }. This threatens to fork the king and queen, so there is no time for Bxb7. }. Tuesday, September 29, 2009. White to move, black just played Bg4. }. FEN "r3kb1r/...
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Tactical Magic: Tactic 0230
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Tactically interesting chess games and examples of chess tactics. Sunday, November 1, 2009. FEN "2k4r/1bp4r/pp2R3/4pp2/1PPp3P/3B2P1/P4P2/2R3K1 w - - 0 24"]. White to move, black just played fxe5. }. Second best is Rxe5 (2.20), best is Bxf5 (4.64) }. 1 Bxf5 Kd8 {The threat of Re8# (! Must be dealt with. }. 2 Bxh7 Rxh7 {At the cost of the exchange. }. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Financial Advice For My Kids. Index of Financial Advice Posts. How to play * *. About this blog * *.
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Tactical Magic: June 2009
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Tactically interesting chess games and examples of chess tactics. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. FEN "rnb2rk1/pp3pp1/2p1p2p/q2NP3/3P3b/3B1N2/PPP3PP/R2Q1RK1 b - - 0 12"]. Black to move, white just played Nxd5. }. Second best is cxd5 (0.61), best is Qxd5 (-1.48) }. 2 c4 {If Nxh4, then Qxd4 wins the knight. }. Monday, June 29, 2009. FEN "7r/1Q3p2/p2qkp2/2p1p1r1/P7/BP4P1/3P1RK1/2R5 b - - 0 30"]. Black to move, white just played Rc1. }. Second best is Rgh5 (3.53), best is Rxg3 (mate in 6). }. Rh2 leads to mate. }.
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Tactical Magic: November 2009
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Tactically interesting chess games and examples of chess tactics. Saturday, November 14, 2009. I'm taking a break from this blog, while I look for some more tactics to post in the future. Enjoy the tactics that are here! Thursday, November 5, 2009. FEN "r4rk1/pp3pp1/2p5/2b1PPp1/2P1Q3/3B3P/Pq4P1/R4R1K w - - 0 21"]. White to move, black just played Qxb2. }. Second best is Rab1 (1.43), best is f6 (8.09) }. Wednesday, November 4, 2009. FEN "r2qkb1r/1pp2ppp/p3p3/3pn2n/2PP4/2N1P2P/PP3PP1/R1BQK2R w KQkq - 0 10"].
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Financial Advice For My Kids: Dollar Cost Averaging
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Financial Advice For My Kids. Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Before starting such a program. Why is this a good way to invest? Well, suppose you are buying a stock, and you decide to purchase 10 shares a month for a year. At the end of the year, you will have 120 shares. The stock price fluctuates during the year, lets say in the range $25 to $40. To make this example concrete, suppose the price goes like this during the year:. This was a pretty good investment! How is this possible? Well if you look at th...
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Financial Advice For My Kids: The 50 Percent Rule - A Simple Investing Strategy
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Financial Advice For My Kids. Tuesday, August 30, 2011. The 50 Percent Rule - A Simple Investing Strategy. OK Here is the promised simple strategy for investing. In this column, I'll just give the recipe for the strategy, and I'll devote future columns to explaining how it works and how to modify it for different purposes. Take all of the money that you have to invest, and divide it into three piles:. 50% for investing in stocks. 40% for investing in bonds. 10% to keep in cash. With the money designated ...
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Financial Advice For My Kids: Good Debt and Bad Debt
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Financial Advice For My Kids. Friday, December 17, 2010. Good Debt and Bad Debt. You might think from my last post (see Getting Started - Rule #2. That I believe that all debt is bad. But that's not the case. Sometimes it's OK, and even a good thing to go into debt. How can you tell good debt from bad debt? What's the difference between these two cases? Another example of potentially good debt is when you borrow money to go to college (or for any type of education or training). If the training you re...
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Financial Advice For My Kids: Selecting a Broker
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Financial Advice For My Kids. Tuesday, May 10, 2011. OK, if you've met the requirements for beginning to invest (see my previous entry on the prerequisites to investing. The first step is to select a broker and open an account with them. When I'm choosing a broker, the things I look for are: online trading, low fees, good execution, and a nearby office. It's useful to check out articles like the annual Smart Money list of top brokers. In the next few entries in this blog, I will describe a simple investi...
