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Aug
30
2009

Chess Plans September 2009

As a way to slowly ease back into Chess, I plan to do the following:
1) Go over about 20 tactics problems at Chess Tempo at least 5 days a week.
2) Start and finish Fred Reinfeld’s The Complete Chess Player.
3) Participate at Chess.com by looking for questions asked by various players, mostly beginners, that I [...]

Dec
15
2007

Road to Recovery (progress report)

I have done quite a bit since my last post. I have become more active at chess.com – you can see my content by clicking here. Both the writing, commenting on other people’s postings, and playing a couple of games keep me in the “Chess mood”.In addition, I have been reading a few Chess books. [...]

Oct
13
2007

Self-discovery through loss

I think my Chess has deteriorated a lot in the past couple of weeks… or everybody else has gotten better than me. If the latter is the case, then my rating is about 1200! I have lost to a 1300 player, a 1500 player, and I am not doing very well with 1700s and the [...]

Aug
13
2007

Qxh7#: Still Too Early for Lessons You Think?

How soon can you start teaching your kid how to play Chess? How about this early???::::
Qxh7#: Still Too Early for Lessons You Think?

Aug
12
2007

Parallel 2: Track every cent you earn/spend//Bishop, King, Pawn… Where art thou?

I remember playing Chess with Kajani K. years ago and there were times when I got tired of waiting for him to play his move. It was not because he was “slow” because when a Chess clock was introduced, he would play at lightning speed! It was almost never possible to beat Kajani when playing [...]