Monday, April 25, 2005. Due to a recent change, it is time for me to set aside this quest, at least for now. Finally found and landed a new gig late last week. The down side is that my daily 20 minute round trip will turn into about 2 hours. That combined with the challenges of a new job have convinced me to take a break for awhile. I want to make sure.

Increasing Our Chess Knowledge for Free, One Link at a Time. Wednesday, August 12, 2009. When White does play 5. Nc3, it is usually with the idea of continuing 5.

Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement. Wednesday, December 27, 2017. See you on the other side of the board. Saturday, November 04, 2017. What are the themes going into the middle game? Does the horsey go next to he tower? How to feed my passion for this game when so many other things are demanding my attention? I am trying out a path through work.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007. Study Tactics Daily, or as often as possible. These books compose of 1299 puzzles combined. Okay, so other than studying so much tactics what else will I do? Play games online. Test my tactic skill occasionally on CTS, a.

Sunday, February 26, 2012. Saturday, January 28, 2012. Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Some time ago I returned back to Chess Tactics Server after years of absence. At first it felt a little weird after the ICC problem set, but I guess it went surprisingly well considering the length of the break. Wednesday, August 10, 2011.

Wednesday, March 05, 2008. Wednesday, November 21, 2007. Beginning last weekend, I have completed 2 mini-circles of pawn endings. A Man Has An Idea.

Wednesday, April 02, 2014. Some new chess rules passed by FIDE. You can read about it at Chess. At the recent FIDE Congress, delegates from the 103 countries represented made some rule changes that had been debated for the past few years. B The GM title was modified as well. I am getting a much .

And what is good, Phædrus, And what is not good. Need we ask anyone to tell us these things? Donderdag 31 december 2009. This afternoon I struggled with the position below. If you want you can use it yourself as a Stoyko exercise. 1 fxe3 2 Nxe3 Bf8? Already a losing move. Hxg6 4 Qxg6 Ng7 5 Ng4 Be7 6 Nh6.

The blog that seeks out hard evidence concerning chess training methods for the average player - particularly the not so young average player. Wednesday, 22 June 2016. Improving the Novag Citrine Interface. The program now writes the options available for PC engine to the console on start-up. Engine Option Type Default Min Max Var. Contempt spin 0 -100 100. Hash spin 16 1 1048576. Minimum Thinking Time spin 20 0 5000. MultiPV spin 1 1 500.