Better Your Chess

Learn From The Masters #3: Karpov – Seirawan, Tilburg 1983

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:47:38 +0000

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Hi all,

In this video lecture I continue to study the works of Anatoly The Great. During the 9th round of the 1983 Interpolis Chess Tournament he was simply in great shape!

Click “play” and discover what I mean!

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[playing time: 50 min.]

Openings #1: How To Slay The Dragon (1)

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:42:41 +0000

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Once upon a time there was a chess trainer creating a series of opening videos with the intent to sell them as digital packages. But somewhere down the line he realized that he would much rather share them with his Better Your Chess members…

This is the first video of a series on how to beat the Sicilian Dragon. It focuses on the so-called Lewenfish variation.

May it inspire you!

[playing length: 25 min.]

Lesson #1: How To Tackle A Chess Position?

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:07:23 +0000

In this very first lesson I will to teach you how to go from first assessing a chess position to the final choice of a chess move.

Let me start by making an important note. What I want to avoid in the Better Your Chess lessons is to give you enormous lists of questions – algorithms if you like – that you can ask yourself in a specific order to perfectly end up with the right move for the position. This way of asking questions is tiring and impractical. The main idea however is never to try and just play moves! You have to try and make the course of your thoughts logical. Having said that let’s look at how the proces might work from a global point of view in the video below. I say might, because there is not just one perfect way of doing this, and we all differ. But hey, I will show you how I do it, because that’s why you are here.

[playing length: 12 min]