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Links | Bellaire Chess Club

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Veni, Vidi, Vici. The Chess Tactics Server. Other Houston Area Chess Clubs and Academies. Jim Liptrap's Houston Chess Portal. South Montgomery Chess Club. Space City Chess Club.

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ROCKY ROOK: "How To Judge a Chess Position"

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Friday, April 11, 2014. How To Judge a Chess Position". Stumbled on this video today. I really liked it - I need to find more videos like these. 1 count the pieces. 2 compare the kind positions. 3 compare the pawn structures. 4 compare the relative piece activity of the players. 5 work out if there are any threats. 6 make an assessment, look for moves. Labels: How to Think. To judge a position, positional evaluation and thinking process are very close related. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Knight a...

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ROCKY ROOK: ChessTempo June 2014

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Tuesday, July 01, 2014. Rockyrook blitz problem rating 5.31.14 to 7.1.14. I've been keeping a pretty good eye on my chesstempo performance since January 2012. I track several aspects including my monthly minimum rating, maximum rating and median rating per every 20 blitz problems. So after I completed my 620 blitz problems for the month of June, I realized a few things special about this month. Of course, June could be one big anomaly and July will see a return to "normal" - which is entirely possible, e...

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ROCKY ROOK: tata steel tournament

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015. I wonder if the players at the tata steel tournament have a constant urge to urinate. That's all i can think about every time i see the room they are playing in. And seeing people standing in ankle-deep water like it's no big deal; makes my feet cold. It must be torture playing in that hall. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). M-F during lunch or after work:. Play 30 0 on lichess. Solve problems on lichess. Read/study HTRYC 4th, endgame book. Link to season stats. I am consta...

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ROCKY ROOK: of losing and pinewood derby cars

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Friday, January 23, 2015. Of losing and pinewood derby cars. Last fall, i got my 10 year old son to start playing chess. i introduced him to fritz and chesster and he immediately took a liking to it. we began to play several games a day. i got him a chesskids.com account and he began to play lots more. He wanted to beat me. He is a very modest ten year old and wasn't overly excited, but he was undoubtedly proud of his accomplishment! Now the fun begins! Congrats to your youngest! Third times the charm.

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ROCKY ROOK: silman's knights tests

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Monday, January 12, 2015. Test 1, white to move. Test 2 black to move. Test 3, black to move. Test 4, white to move. Test 5, white to move. Test 6, white to move. Test 7, white to move. Test 8, white to move. Test 9, white to move. Labels: HTRYC 4th tests. To solve Silmans knight problems check knightmoves backwards first :/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). M-F during lunch or after work:. Play 30 0 on lichess. Solve problems on lichess. Read/study HTRYC 4th, endgame book. Link to season stats. I am ...

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Texas Chess Association: Texas clubs and vendors

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March 17, 2007. Texas clubs and vendors. Dark Knights Chess Club (McAllen). Fort Worth Chess Club. Permian Basin Chess Club. San Antonio Chess Club. Space City Chess Club (Houston). Sun City Chess Academy (El Paso). Tarrant County Chess Club. Region VI (South Central). Region VIII (Lower Valley). Region X (Upper Valley). Laurel Mountain Elementary School (Austin). Spicewood Elementary Chess Club (Austin). Looking for chess sets for your club or school? TCA recommends the following vendors:.

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ROCKY ROOK: chess.com getting mahogany board back?

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Friday, May 09, 2014. Chesscom getting mahogany board back? Chesscom did a revamp of their boards and pieces a few months ago and in the process removed the mahogany color board. after much prodding and asking, it looks like they are bringing it back. the admin emailed me today and suggested this view. i really like it and it's better than the other wood options they have now. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). M-F during lunch or after work:. Play 30 0 on lichess. Solve problems on lichess. I am consta...

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Chess Houston Weekly

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To sign up to receive an e-mail when this page changes, click. And type update as your message. Usually a good idea to make contact before attending the first time. At McDonalds, Tomball. 22610 Hwy 249 at Spring Cypress, connected to the Chevron MiniMart. Hillcroft, Ste#2E, at Richmond, Various. Scholastic events each month. Monthly Sunday Scholastic. Website http:/ www.center64.com/. Contact Kwunnie or Matt chess@center64.com. HCC Friday Knights in. Fridays of the month. USCF Rated. FLIER.doc. Three rou...

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ROCKY ROOK: ChessTempo July 2014

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Wednesday, August 06, 2014. Just a follow-up from my June post about my ChessTempo performance. I'm still not entirely convinced this improvement in performance is entirely due to the duplicate reduction issue (which was implemented in April 2014). The fact is I am seeing more 1700 problems in June and July than I have from January to May this year. In October 2012, I started tracking how many problems I had that were below 1599, between 1600 and 1699 and above 1700. So, CT is serving me fewer lower rate...