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Bishop & Knight & Queen Mating Attack | The Chunky Rook
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Bishop and Knight and Queen Mating Attack. So it’s been a while since I last posted, but do not be deceived! A lot of time spent not blogging has been spent practising chess :) A week ago I received my highest rating yet (around 1850) and I am cautiously confident that I am still improving. For those of you who’d like to know what I’ve been up to chess-wise:. I’ve consulted and re-consulted books and videos explaining basic strategic concepts. The best one so far was Michael Stean’s. I’ve been play...
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Chess Intuition, Part One: Either you see it, or you don’t. | The Chunky Rook
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Chess Intuition, Part One: Either you see it, or you don’t. I’ve recently perused Willy Hendrik’s. Move First, Think Later. Here’s a pdf preview. And watched the interview between Garry Kasparov and Maurice Ashely. In which Kasparov gleefully mentions that he relied mostly on intuition by playing moves without calculating lines. Why would anyone in their right mind suggest that we should make moves without thinking? No, the expert simply. Or should we rack our brains over the board in an effort to prove ...
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Consolidate by Guarding Intrusion Squares | The Chunky Rook
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Consolidate by Guarding Intrusion Squares. Of course, the chunk that’s shown in this gif is related to a common mating pattern of Queen Bishop, e.g. this one:. This entry was posted on Saturday, September 29th, 2012 at 8:52 am and is filed under middlegame. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Feed You can leave a response. From your own site. Laquo; Previous Post. Next Post ». Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Email (Address never made public). Get every new...
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Chess Intuition, Part Three: Conclusions. | The Chunky Rook
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Chess Intuition, Part Three: Conclusions. This post concludes my discussion of Willy Hendriks’. Move First, Think Later. It was great fun to do some armchair philosophy on chess improvement again, but it’s time to return to learning chess instead of learning to learn chess ;-) Having perused Hendriks’s book some more, here are four conclusions I draw from it:. Psychologizing chess seems easy: you just look at what’s going on in your own head and analyze away, right? Or something like that. Training) as a...
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The Chunky Rook | Animated chess ideas | Page 2
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July 3, 2012. Viswanathan Anand’s talk on thinking in chess. Has already been advertised on several chess sites and blogs, but I’d like to quote a snippet from the talk that struck me as an important “psychological chunk” on how to approach the game and how to approach a position. Anand reiterates — in slightly different terms — the old adage that it’s better to have a bad plan than to have no plan at all:. How to Move Your A-Pawn. May 6, 2012. Bishop Pin on g5/f6. April 25, 2012. April 8, 2012. A useful...
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Who’s still around? | The Chunky Rook
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Who’s still around? Having said that, let’s take a look at what’s been happening online! Perusing my blog roll, I was happy to see that at least some of the blogs back from when chess improvement blogging was all the rage are still active: for example Katar. And, much to my delight, Confessions of a Chess Novice. This entry was posted on Thursday, February 20th, 2014 at 11:10 am and is filed under varia. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Feed You can leave a response. Http:/...
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Back Rank Interference | The Chunky Rook
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After a bit of a dry spell, I’ve taken up studying tactics and openings again, among else by joining chess.com. In today’s tactics training, I came across a classic pattern that I had forgotten about, so I made a gif of it. The two patterns it combines are back rank mate and interference. In the next gif, White uses his bishop for an interference between two connect rooks, effectively trapping Black’s rook in the White camp:. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You are comment...
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Robert Pearson's Chess Blog: March 2012
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Robert Pearson's Chess Blog. The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be master — that’s all. Friday, March 30, 2012. Best of Chess Blogging Part III: What a Wonderful World. And now, Part III of the Best of Chess Blogging! This incorporates everything that has been submitted that I didn't get into Part I. If I have missed someone's submission please let me know and I'll get it added. For instance, GM Nigel Davies. Love his books and his blog, The Chess Improver. Best Blog, Best Moves! I've certa...
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Castling Queen Side: Touch-Move: Do As I Say, Not As I Do.
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Looking at the "Game of Kings" from the Queen's point of view. Wednesday, February 11, 2009. Touch-Move: Do As I Say, Not As I Do. When I'm directing a scholastic tournament the one thing I dread when I see a hand go up is hearing, "He touched the (fill in the blank) and moved something else." The touch move rule is the bane of every tournament director's existence. What's a tournament director to do when one player claims the opponent touched a piece, and the opponent vehemently denies it? Without a neu...