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Manuel Bosboom's immortal blitz game
Played in some chess pub in Amsterdam but deserves more praise
Instructive bishop endgame win by Botvinnik
From Kotov-Botvinnik, 1955
"The courage to be disliked" book and chess - Part 4
Youth is important
The pearl of the Bard - A tribute to Anton Rosmuller
This year Anton Rosmuller, a former OTB team mate of mine at Paul Keres chess club Utrecht, died. I …
Nice positional moves regarding pawn structure and piece activity.
Playing through more Botvinnik games from a paper book I had to think of a game by Karpov
Most fun game today so far - June 15 2023
A little tribute to IM Manuel Bosboom
Rook endings : learn from Akiba Rubinstein
A series with rook ending games from the legend in endgames : Akiba Rubinstein
A few hints on endgames for U2000 players
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is a good thing. Knowing with which endgames to be careful is …
Botvinnik and the Initiative - game
Botvinnik - Vidmar Senior, 1936 shows the Isolated Queen Pawn, and the important of the white knight…
"The courage to be disliked" book and chess - Part 3
About being part of a community
Another impressive Botvinnik game to share
While Botvinnik was heading for the twilight of his career in 1968, Portisch was a contender for the…
GM game : a white knight camping out on d7
In 2 games in twenty - 22 a white knight landed on square d7 totally unexpected
Pychess site has Crazyhouse puzzles now!
Pychess site keeps adding new things - kudo to them
"The courage to be disliked" book and chess - Part 2
Exploring some more of the book and chess
The London problem
A little rant about that pesky opening
Double rook sac declined
Trying to go "immortal" but not left empty handed
Harry
The h pawn is the winning secret ingredient in this game
"The courage to be disliked" book and chess - Part 1
Intro to ideas from this book, and chess
Father and son Campora at Limburg Open tourney 2023
Chess games of GM Campora
Exploring my own weaknesses
While going through a paper book with annotated Botvinnik games I found one of my weaknesses
Why do I not get any tactics in my chess games ?
Thoughts on this recurring question
Beat me in chess !
Join me in the top 5
Is psychology in chess needed to become a stronger player ?
tldr; [1] No, not needed. But sometimes it can help.