Endgames are about planning, thinking schematically, and looking far ahead often without calculating precise lines. Finding a plan
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A perfect attack against a castled king, Spielmann – Hoenlinger, Vienna 1929 · Middlegame Strategy 2
Attacking a castled king is a very important skill for a chess player to develop, and there are
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Mikhail Tal’s greatest attack, Tal – Koblents, Riga 1957 · Middlegame Strategy 1
Attacking is a skill chess players sharpen by studying great attacking games of the past. Tal’s games are
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Exploiting weaknesses in rook endgames, Andersson – Huebner, Johannesburg 1981 · Endgame Strategy 2
Rook endgames are the most common type of endgame in chess. They can be very complex, and even
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Bishop versus Knight, Reti – Rubinstein, Gothenburg (1920) · Endgame Strategy 1
Endgame strategy is something you can always improve at. This will be the first video in the series
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I messed up basic opposition · Training Game
This is hard to say anything about. As punishment for this game, I am going to go through
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Complete lack of understanding of the position · Training Game
In training, when it happens that you understood nothing about a position, you have struck gold. That means
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A great line against the Grünfeld · Training Game
My first game against the Grünfeld went smoothly. I chose a variation which makes it very hard for
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A perfect attack on a weak color complex · Training Game
This was a wonderful attacking game. A weak color complex, left completely undefended, left my extra material actually
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This is for Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual · Training Game
The endgame I played in this game is (for me) harder than most in Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual. It
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