Chess player and enthusiast. Adult improver. #chesspunks
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Quiet positions are where many club players waste a lot of time and lack direction.
We've learned about forcing moves, solved a bunch of puzzles, but...what's the plan when there are no threats?
I'll make a series of tweets on this, and here's the first example.
What should White do in this relatively famous exercise? White to play.
Answers = logic behind your move, evaluation, and the move/sequence.
First correct logical answer = ask me a chess question and I'll post an answer soon!
#chesspunks @NealBruceBC
Should I make a @chessable course on positional decision making?
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In honor of GM @SusanPolgar appearing on the podcast, I'm offering a 6-month diamond membership to one lucky winner!
Here's how to enter:
☑️ 1. Follow this account.
☑️ 2. Retweet this post.
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Good discussion on the broadcast today. The problem with chess is not that the good moves are hard to find. It’s that the bad moves are easy to find too.
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I hope the intensity and beauty of this #chess World Championship will remind people that classical chess is quite often far more watchable and exciting than blitz or rapid chess. A chess boom combined with a lack of classical events does not make sense.
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FIDE Candidates and Women's Candidates 2024 go to Toronto, Canada!
First time ever under one roof. Most important chess event of the year.
See the details: fide.com/news/2300
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Eurosport will broadcast the Champions Chess Tour in more than 60 markets across Europe and Asia!
chess24.com/en/read/news/eur…
#ChessChamps #c24live
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A video recap to @MagnusCarlsen's double victory at the King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championship 2019.
With 11 World Championship titles (4 in classical chess, 4 in blitz, and 3 in rapid), is Magnus Carlsen the best sportsman of the past decade?
#rapidblitz #chess
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The November issue of CHESS has been printed and is winging its way to readers. A couple of days to enjoy watching the European Teams in Batumi and then we will be pressing on with our final issue of the decade!
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World Champion @MagnusCarlsen and GM Vladislav Kovalev (🇧🇾 2661) go through their game in which the former saved a dead lost position!
Magnus maintains his unbeaten streak!
and is now undefeated in 94 games, one less than what Mikhail Tal managed in the early 1970s.
#iomches – at Newtown, Isle of Man
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In his impressive unbeaten streak, Carlsen faced an average rating of 2761. That's like playing 56 games against World #10 Nakamura winning 17 of them and not losing a single one.
(Ding Liren had an average opposition rating of 2737 in his 100 game streak.)
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World Champion Emanuel Lasker was born on this day, 150 years ago. 🎉📅🎉
Lasker was world chess champion for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921.
Another world champion and admirer of Lasker's, Kramnik praised him saying: "I think that Lasker is the discoverer of modern chess."
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Garry Kasparov competes in simultaneous chess exhibition match in Zagreb, Croatia - Xinhua dlvr.it/Qh1Czm
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You have to do A LOT of #chess diagrams without much concern about correct results(#immersion); that may seem arguable and weak-minded,but you must get the understanding of what it’s trying to teach you & not get hung-up on mistakes.The treasure is in the training😉❗ @chess24com – at St Louis, MO
