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Thursday, 21 October 2010

Who needs pawn structure?

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I had an interesting game last night, where early on I 'blundered my pawn structure'. What I mean by this is that due to a poor mov...
Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Cartegory XX tournaments once a fortnight

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It seems that the worlds leading players have been put to work by some kind of higher power. Today sees the start of the Pearl Spring tourna...
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Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Generating income

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Chess players have money, at least enough to live on. And some chess players have more than that, especially to spend on things like books a...
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Monday, 18 October 2010

Keeping those early games

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From the earliest stage of my chess career I kept a record of my games. The first 50 or so games were in a score book, the rest on tournamen...
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Sunday, 17 October 2010

European Club Cup

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Over the last decade the European chess scene has kicked on pretty strongly, with the European Chess Union creating a number of very popular...
Saturday, 16 October 2010

Cold Weather Chess

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One thing we didn't really get in Siberia during the Olympiad was snow. There were a couple of brief flurries but that was about it. Whi...
Friday, 15 October 2010

The Principle of Two Targets

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The principle of two weaknesses is (I assume) fairly well known. Normally a defender has enough to hold one weak point in a position, but pr...
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