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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..."