Lesson #22: How To Play The Endgame - Some Misconceptions Taken Away
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Hi all,
Many of you are interested on tips on the endgame. You find you don’t know what to do when and endgame arises, find endgames elusive or even scary or even prefer to avoid them at all cost.
Lesson #18: Candidates - Thinking Outside The Box… Or Not?
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What do the cases of Sherlock Holmes and chess have in common?
Question #5: What Is Tunnel Vision?
Hi all,
Pablo askes:
I’ve come across in Lev Alburt’s books on the term “Tunnel Vision”. He mentions it but does not delve deeper into a topic that seems endemic to many players.
Can you expand on this issue and its remedy?
Lesson #17: How To Calculate - Not Deep But Broad!
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Hi all,
In this lesson we look at calculation from a slightly different angle.
Lesson #16: The Mechanism Of Attack And Defense
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In this video I introduce a new acronym and tool: T.I.M.S.I.C.
This tool will help you to distinguish generic types of defenses.
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Lesson #15: How To Calculate - Assumption Is Our Glue
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In this lesson we continue discussing several key aspects of calculation. This time it is “assumption”.
Lesson #14: Falsification - Exercises
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In this lesson you are going to practice what your learned in the previous lesson!
Lesson #13: How To Calculate - Introduction & Falsification
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Hi all, this is the first of a series of lessons in which you are going to learn more about phase 3 of the Analytical Approach: Calculation.
Lesson #12: How To Find Candidate Moves
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In this lesson we continue the work we started in lesson #11. We are going to look at techniques required by the position and what moves they bring to mind.