chessblogger: Studying chess in Miami

chessblogger: Studying chess in Miami: "I have not posted on my blog for a while, I was on vacation in Miami, and had little time for writing new entries. I’ve however been study..."

chessblogger: Chess Position Trainer – test your opening knowled...

chessblogger: Chess Position Trainer – test your opening knowled...: "I have written a fair bit about how you’d want to be careful about choosing the openings that you play and opening preparation in general. B..."

chessblogger: 10 tips for Analysing your Chess Games

chessblogger: 10 tips for Analysing your Chess Games: "One of the major ways of studying chess in our Russian “chess school” in the nineties was analyzing your own games. That got me into believi..."

chessblogger: Becoming a chess master

chessblogger: Becoming a chess master: "What is involved in becoming a chess master, and why is that so hard for most people? What differentiates a master from an expert, and what ..."

chessblogger: Bishop Sacrifice in Panov Attack (Caro-Kann)

chessblogger: Bishop Sacrifice in Panov Attack (Caro-Kann): "One of the main points of playing blitz on the internet is to go over finished games, and draw certain conclusions from them. I learned a fa..."

chessblogger: Why you should not trust chess database statistics...

chessblogger: Why you should not trust chess database statistics...: "Have a look at this position, which arises in Panov Attack in the Caro-Kann, or from some lines of Queen’s Gambit Declined. 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d..."

chessblogger: Opening preparation – gaining advantage on the clo...

chessblogger: Opening preparation – gaining advantage on the clo...: "When I play tournament games, I usually record the time I spent on critical moments of the game. Having the record of how much time I spent ..."

chessblogger: Opening preparation – surprise your opponent

chessblogger: Opening preparation – surprise your opponent: "One of the most serious books on openings is 'Opening preparation' by Dvoretsky and Yusupov. The authors talk more about the methods of stud..."

chessblogger: ChessBase Light 2009 – Prepare against opponent

chessblogger: ChessBase Light 2009 – Prepare against opponent: "ChessBase Light 2009, which came out recently, is not really fundamentally different from ChessBase Light 2007, but has a couple of nice fea..."

chessblogger: BC Championship 2009

chessblogger: BC Championship 2009: "I competed in the 2009 BC Closed Championship last weekend. Thank you, Stephen, for running the tournament again, and providing the crosstab..."

chessblogger: Chessbase Light 2009 – create custom shortcuts

chessblogger: Chessbase Light 2009 – create custom shortcuts: "I use Chessbase Light for creating diagrams for this blog. Certain operations, such as copying a diagram to later paste it into Windows Live..."

chessblogger: Opening disaster video

chessblogger: Opening disaster video: "If you ever studied Riga variation of the Open variation of the Spanish opening (quite a mouthful!), you’d have known this position and know..."

chessblogger: Mastering the Endgame – Understanding Typical Stru...

chessblogger: Mastering the Endgame – Understanding Typical Stru...: "If you have read the book “Mastering the Endgame” by Mikhail Shereshevsky, there is little new for you in this post. Otherwise, I’d like to ..."

chessblogger: 10 Reasons to Build an Opening Repertoire

chessblogger: 10 Reasons to Build an Opening Repertoire: "I’ve been alluding to the importance of building an opening repertoire by talking about various methods of doing it, but I have not actually..."

chessblogger: Turning Chess Knowledge into Playing Strength

chessblogger: Turning Chess Knowledge into Playing Strength: "It often happens that a chess player studies a lot, but the rating does not go up. On the other hand, sometimes one just plays in tournament..."

chessblogger: How to prepare for a Chess Tournament

chessblogger: How to prepare for a Chess Tournament: "If you are a professional tournament player, or very active in chess competitions, you are probably jumping from tournament to tournament so..."

chessblogger: Bluff in chess - refuting opponent’s opening play

chessblogger: Bluff in chess - refuting opponent’s opening play: "When your opponent is playing the opening of a chess game almost without thinking, it is hard to imagine that he is making severe blunders a..."

chessblogger: Memorizing Chess Openings

chessblogger: Memorizing Chess Openings: "During Canadian Chess Championship in 2002, I had a pretty odd incident related to memorizing opening variations. In round 4 game I forgot m..."

chessblogger: Creating Opening Repertoire in ChessBase

chessblogger: Creating Opening Repertoire in ChessBase: "I already wrote about how to better manager your repertoire as well as why you need to build your repertoire in the first place, but this vi..."

chessblogger: Chess Position Trainer – Show Novelties

chessblogger: Chess Position Trainer – Show Novelties: "Once you created an opening repertoire in Chess Position Trainer (or imported it from elsewhere), you can cross-reference it against the dat..."

Texts of Judaism

Texts of Judaism

Le blog d'échecs de Nicola Gotti: Tournoi d'échecs sur Facebook

Le blog d'échecs de Nicola Gotti: Tournoi d'échecs sur Facebook: "var _gaq = _gaq []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12393861-6']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.c..."

Le blog d'échecs de Nicola Gotti: Ils sont revenus !!!!!!!

Le blog d'échecs de Nicola Gotti: Ils sont revenus !!!!!!!: "var _gaq = _gaq []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12393861-6']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.c..."

Le blog d'échecs de Nicola Gotti: Tournoi en différé 2

Le blog d'échecs de Nicola Gotti: Tournoi en différé 2: "var _gaq = _gaq []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12393861-6']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.c..."

http://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/2010/09/27/2010-chess-olympiad-round-6/

http://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/2010/09/27/2010-chess-olympiad-round-6/

chessblogger: BC Active Championship 2010 – poisoned pawns and b...

chessblogger: BC Active Championship 2010 – poisoned pawns and b...: "A couple of weeks ago I participated in the BC Active Championship, which was won by Vicente Lee, second year in a row. I lost to speed ches..."

chessblogger: Sacrifice on April Fool’s day

chessblogger: Sacrifice on April Fool’s day: "Black to move r4rk1/pbq2pp1/7p/1B6/3pP3/6b1/PPP1Q1P1/R1B2R1K b - - 0 22 This game was a decisive one in a BC CYCC (Canadian youth champions..."

chessblogger: Chess - tactics serving strategy

chessblogger: Chess - tactics serving strategy: "Jiganchine – Jack Cheng, Keres Memorial 2008 Black to move. How to best deal with the attack against the b5 pawn?In this position, typical ..."

chessblogger: Game from Canadian Chess Junior Championship 2002 ...

chessblogger: Game from Canadian Chess Junior Championship 2002 ...: "Some losses are just not fun to go back and look at! Some of them are just plain depressing, but there is always a good lesson to be learned..."

chessblogger: Unexpected Exchange Sacrifice - Video

chessblogger: Unexpected Exchange Sacrifice - Video: "Jiganchine,Roman (2246) - Lipnowski Michael (1799) [E69] Canadian Junior (7), 05.01.2002, Winnipeg We often read in chess books about 'pos..."

chessblogger: Knight sacrifice in Sicilian Defence - video

chessblogger: Knight sacrifice in Sicilian Defence - video: "Jiganchine – Change He Li, Vancouver, 2008. White to move rnb2rk1/2qnbppp/pp2p3/3pP3/P2N1P2/2N1BB2/1PP3PP/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 13 Black has som..."

chessblogger: Keres Memorial 2010 games - with Videos

chessblogger: Keres Memorial 2010 games - with Videos: "Keres Memorial 2010 was held last weekend in Richmond, British Columbia. While last year I wrote up a summary with diagrams, this time I ins..."

chessblogger: Spoiled Sacrifice in a Blitz Game

chessblogger: Spoiled Sacrifice in a Blitz Game: "DDT3000 – pirulo, 2010, ICC, 3 minutes per game White to move This is a typical IQP position, with one pair of minor pieces gone off the b..."

chessblogger: Analysing the endgame – looking for turning points...

chessblogger: Analysing the endgame – looking for turning points...: "The logic of any given chess game usually does not become apparent until you dig deeper into it move by move. It takes time to understand th..."

chessblogger: Bluff in chess - refuting opponent’s opening play

chessblogger: Bluff in chess - refuting opponent’s opening play: "When your opponent is playing the opening of a chess game almost without thinking, it is hard to imagine that he is making severe blunders a..."

chessblogger: Memorizing Chess Openings

chessblogger: Memorizing Chess Openings: "During Canadian Chess Championship in 2002, I had a pretty odd incident related to memorizing opening variations. In round 4 game I forgot m..."

chessblogger: Bluff in chess - refuting opponent’s opening play

chessblogger: Bluff in chess - refuting opponent’s opening play: "When your opponent is playing the opening of a chess game almost without thinking, it is hard to imagine that he is making severe blunders a..."

chessblogger: Tarrasch – Rubinstein, 1911, active rook in the en...

chessblogger: Tarrasch – Rubinstein, 1911, active rook in the en...: "Black to move I recently posted a youtube video about this classical game, watch it to see the answer:"

chessblogger: ChessBase in Silverlight

chessblogger: ChessBase in Silverlight: "Chessbase finally has re-written their database software using one Microsoft’s latest technologies – Silverlight. You can “install” it by go..."

chessblogger: Improving time management in a chess game

chessblogger: Improving time management in a chess game: "You can’t improve what you can’t measure. I recommend keeping track of the time you spent during the game. Once you get into the habit of ad..."

chessblogger: How to prepare for a Chess Tournament

chessblogger: How to prepare for a Chess Tournament: "If you are a professional tournament player, or very active in chess competitions, you are probably jumping from tournament to tournament so..."

chessblogger: Book Review - Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Game...

chessblogger: Book Review - Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Game...: "My blog entries are usually driven by analyzing games, and I must have not done much of that in the last month or so, thus the shortage of p..."

chessblogger: Chess database formats - PGN vs. Chessbase

chessblogger: Chess database formats - PGN vs. Chessbase: "In what format do you store your chess data? This question has plagued me for years, so I finally decided to blurb it all out. There are at ..."

chessblogger: 10 steps to a Better Chess Opening Repertoire

chessblogger: 10 steps to a Better Chess Opening Repertoire: "Write it down, and then print it out. Begin by recording what you know already, and build on that. Don’t be afraid that some parts of it ar..."

chessblogger: Becoming a chess master

chessblogger: Becoming a chess master: "What is involved in becoming a chess master, and why is that so hard for most people? What differentiates a master from an expert, and what ..."

chessblogger: 10 tips for Analysing your Chess Games

chessblogger: 10 tips for Analysing your Chess Games: "One of the major ways of studying chess in our Russian “chess school” in the nineties was analyzing your own games. That got me into believi..."

chessblogger: Memorizing Chess Openings

chessblogger: Memorizing Chess Openings: "During Canadian Chess Championship in 2002, I had a pretty odd incident related to memorizing opening variations. In round 4 game I forgot m..."

“It’s genuine class” – Bareev on Grischuk’s Houdini act

“It’s genuine class” – Bareev on Grischuk’s Houdini act

First GM: The trained thinker

First GM: The trained thinker: "Try this analogy. You are a non swimmer and have never been in a swimming pool in your life. You go through this lesson on how to float in w..."

First GM: Question to the technical analysts

First GM: Question to the technical analysts: "If Mas had played Qe3 on his last move before accepting draw, would it have made a difference?"

First GM: A 2200 beats a 2600

First GM: A 2200 beats a 2600: "Jimmy covers it here. 2200 is his technical strength. How do we measure his mental fighting strength? ps: I like Jimmy's commentaries. He ..."

First GM: Further along the road

First GM: Further along the road: "Hey, we are doing well with tournaments. New milestones by Hamid/Najib team at Datmo. Congratulations. Not to mention the amazing array of t..."

First GM: Who is the go to person now?

First GM: Who is the go to person now?: "I wanted to stay out of this fray because of the obvious futility of it. Read here. But I suddenly wondered, who is the go to person now? Ha..."

First GM: Sunday musings

First GM: Sunday musings: "I remember a conversation I had in Subic Bay. I guess this sort of things happen alot during holidays. :) This guy was saying he was told b..."

First GM: More Sunday musings

First GM: More Sunday musings: "Every year a Malay couple friend visits us for Raya and we go out for makan or just hang out. They have a boy now in Standard one. The mum w..."

First GM: Change

First GM: Change: "Change. I need to change but how? What to change? I saw these words on a young girls notepad many years ago at a seminar. I cant remember wh..."

First GM: Olympiad

First GM: Olympiad: "There has been new comment here. I think it merits some consideration. Read here."

First GM: When the mind is still

First GM: When the mind is still: "I once played in an International Bridge tournament conducted online. My partner and I were a scratch pair having quickly come together for ..."

First GM: "Chess people are wierd"

First GM: "Chess people are wierd": "I was playing bridge online last night and reading the comments on this blog when a penny dropped. Bridge and Chess are actually quite diffe..."

First GM: When we acknowledge our weaknesses

First GM: When we acknowledge our weaknesses: "Part of the training I give to Mark is to always admit your weaknesses. Actually when you do it does not mean you are weak. It just means yo..."

First GM: Why many of our kids leave chess

First GM: Why many of our kids leave chess: "Some possible reasons. 1. In America you take a stone and throw it randomly and chances are you will hit someone in the mental health care...."

Feeding Your Demons - a process for growth & discovery - National Cultural Trends | Examiner.com

Feeding Your Demons - a process for growth & discovery - National Cultural Trends Examiner.com

Feeding our demons – feminine approach to healing

Feeding our demons – feminine approach to healing

Materia philosophica: SPINOZA - Le conatus

Materia philosophica: SPINOZA - Le conatus: "Toute chose s'efforce - autant qu'il est en son pouvoir - de persévérer dans son être. L'effort par lequel toute chose s'efforce de persévér..."

Materia philosophica: SPINOZA – Contre la superstition

Materia philosophica: SPINOZA – Contre la superstition: "« Les hommes les plus attachés à toute espèce de superstition, ce sont ceux qui désirent sans mesure des biens incertains ; aussitôt qu’un d..."

Materia philosophica: Baruch SPINOZA – La démonstration ou les yeux de l...

Materia philosophica: Baruch SPINOZA – La démonstration ou les yeux de l...: "Cette idée qui exprime l'essence du Corps sous une espèce d'éternité est, comme nous l'avons dit, une manière de penser précise, qui apparti..."

Chod Tent (Chod-gur, Chok-pu)

Chod Cham

Tulku Lama Lobsang on Tog Chöd- the Wisdom Sword

Chod

Free Chess

Free Chess

Green Tara Mantra (108 Repetitions)

Ani Choying teaching the OM MANI PADME HUM mantra

Nun sings for charity

Tara Mantra - Ani Choying Drolma - tune in version

Ani Choying Drolma - Ganesha Mantra, Concert, Munich 07

Ani Choying Drolma - Namo Ratna Traya - Munich 07

Nazarako doshi - नजरको दोषी with lyrics

Reema Gurung

शान्ती लुकाउ कहाँ ? (The Peace Anthem)

Chod dancing

Chod dancing

practicing chod

Chöd at Shugseb Nunnery

Chod under the Bodhi tree

Chod with the Wangdu

CHOD MELODIES (Part 1) by KYABJE ZONG RINPOCHE

chod practice1

Ani Choying Drolma - CHÖ - Munich 08

http://boulder.shambhala.org/

http://boulder.shambhala.org/

Friday catblogging

Friday catblogging

http://kaguvkov.blogspot.com/

http://kaguvkov.blogspot.com/

http://kaguvkov.blogspot.com/

http://kaguvkov.blogspot.com/

Phowa

Phowa

Mindstream

Mindstream

Chöd

Chöd

Chicago Chess Blog: A Magnificent Trap in the Trompowsky

Chicago Chess Blog: A Magnificent Trap in the Trompowsky

A cheap but effective trap

A cheap but effective trap

Fleurir dans l’éther

Fleurir dans l’éther

Shipov annotates Dortmund live

Shipov annotates Dortmund live

Chicago Chess Blog: Benonis are fun

Chicago Chess Blog: Benonis are fun