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5 Reasons Why Chess is Great for Your Child BecomingAChessmaster.com
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5 Reasons Why Chess is Great for Your Child

16th November 2020 Becoming a Chess Master Chess for Children, Chess for Kids, Child, Children, Education, Kid, Kids

Chess is a game that will always benefit our children. Chess is great for your child as well. Chess is a game that, due to its characteristics, meets all the conditions a proper game for your child needs. Furthermore, it …

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Blogpost 

A Very Short History Of Chess

1st November 202015th November 2020 Becoming a Chess Master Chaturanga, Chess History, Jan Timman, Mikhail Botvinnik, Peter Alfonsi, Vasily Smyslov

Chess is a competitive game that is usually played between two players. It is sometimes called international or western chess. The most recent form of the game originated in southern Europe in the second half of the 15th century. Still …

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Visualization 

Chess Next Move Calculator

12th October 20206th January 2021 Becoming a Chess Master Chess move, Chess move calculator, Chess move tool, Chess tool, move calculator, next move

Chess Next Move Calculator suggests you the best tactical chess move for any position. Drag and drop chess pieces to set up the board and press “White Move” or “Black Move” and the engine suggests you the best position.

This …

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Opening 

Best Chess Openings and How to Pick One for You

1st October 20201st October 2020 Becoming a Chess Master Chess Openings, opening study, Scholar's Mate, Scotch Opening, Sicilian Defense, Spanish Opening

Pursuing a career takes more than just passion. It takes huge commitment. In chess career, it is no difference. To play better, appropriate opening strategies can come a long way. Although several chess openings are available to choose from, but …

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Understanding Chess Endgames John Nunn
Book Reviews Endgame 

Book Review – Understanding Chess Endings by GM John Nunn

26th August 20203rd October 2020 Becoming a Chess Master Book Review, chess improvement plan, endgame

Regular readers will know that I think endgame study should form a major part of every improving chess player’s routine. One of my favourite authors on the subject is GM John Nunn. GM Nunn is not just a prolific chess …

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Mastery 

Putting the hours in

10th November 2017 Becoming a Chess Master Mastery

Malcolm Gladwell popularised Anders Ericsson’s work on deliberate practice in his book Outliers: The Story of Success. Incidentally, I found Ericsson’s Peak a better read.

Whichever version of the idea you read, I believe nobody could master (not ‘be …

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Visualization 

A chess visualization exercise

9th October 201710th October 2017 Becoming a Chess Master chess visualisation

This visualization exercise is linked to this tactics post, but that’s as much of a clue as I’ll give!

Click through the game below, consider the position after 24…h6 (even better if you set up the position on a …

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Visualization 

Protected: Visualisation exercise solution

9th October 20179th October 2017 Becoming a Chess Master
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Game Analysis 

Master Game Analysis – Capablanca-Ragozin, Moscow 1936

25th September 20173rd October 2020 Becoming a Chess Master Game Analysis

This master game is another from one of my chess heroes, José Raúl Capablanca. Here he takes on the Soviet Grandmaster Viacheslav Ragozin in the Moscow tournament of 1936.

This was the third of the Moscow tournaments organised by Nikolai …

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Tactics 

Tactics – Removing the Guard

15th September 20175th September 2017 Becoming a Chess Master chess tactics

The tactical device of removing the guard is also known as removing the defender. The name of the tactic is almost sufficient in itself to describe how it works.

The opponent has a piece which is defending another piece, or …

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