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10 Tips to Dominate Chess Tournaments

WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
02.14.2019
10 tips to dominate chess tournaments
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10 Tips to Dominate Chess Tournaments
Yury Markushin
02.14.2019

Quite often after a serious amount of time of regular training sessions, some people still struggle to show better results at tournament practice. How is it possible, one may think, after studying so much to still perform poor and sometimes even worse than before training periodically? It can sound strange but this scenario is not rare at all. Chess is a complex game and the victory lies in many factors; some can be trained and others you only learn how to deal with when you grow a more mature mindset.

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5 Ways of Improve Your Clock Management

WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
02.08.2019
5 ways to improve clock management
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5 Ways of Improve Your Clock Management
Yury Markushin
02.08.2019

Time trouble is a common thing in chess practice. No matter how strong a player becomes, the difficulty of the game increases as time starts ticking low. For some players it is even a chronic defect; they always get in time trouble and then they become used to responding under time pressure.

That being said, it is not the case for the majority of people. Usually poor time management comes from poor decisions on earlier phases of the game.

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5 Tips to Improve Your Calculation

WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
02.02.2019
5 tips for calculation
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5 Tips to Improve Your Calculation
Yury Markushin
02.02.2019

The ability to calculate is crucial in every chess player’s journey to improvement. There’s no such thing as a completely positional game where no calculation is needed; no matter how calm and quiet things have been going, there’s always a moment where you’ll need to see more than your opponent.

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8 Questions to Ask Analyzing Your Own Games

WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
01.22.2019
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8 Questions to Ask Analyzing Your Own Games
Yury Markushin
01.22.2019

It is common knowledge that the key to making progress in chess is the consistent and deep analysis of your own games. Once you have learned the most typical nuances of positional play and tactics, it is worth finding out what you miss in your own practice. It is necessary to try to get to the source of your mistakes and learn more about your own strengths and weaknesses.

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3 Pillars of Chess Improvement – A Guide for Club Players

WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
01.18.2019
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3 Pillars of Chess Improvement – A Guide for Club Players
Yury Markushin
01.18.2019

Going serious at chess all by oneself is something truly admirable. It is unnecessary to say that chess is one of the most difficult things to master and every day it continues to become more difficult as the level of the players keeps rising. How to become better at chess? That is a difficult question with more than just one answer.

In this article, we want to shed some light on the aspect of the training process from scratch and onwards.

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How to Learn Tactical Play – 5 Step Guideline for Club Players

WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
01.11.2019
5 steps to learn tactical play
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How to Learn Tactical Play – 5 Step Guideline for Club Players
Yury Markushin
01.11.2019

It is well known that tactics play a major role in the chess game. The ability to spot tactical motifs and hidden combinations is a must have for every chess players who wish to obtain notable results.

However, the vast majority of players does not shine because of their talent in spotting tactics; in fact, many are just average in this aspect. The reason for this may well be that it is an element of chess that hasn’t been trained properly or even not at all. There is the thought that tactical vision, or let’s say tactical style, is something innate; you either have it or you don’t.

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5 Easy Steps to Prepare For Your Next Game

WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
12.09.2018
5 easy steps to prepare for your next game
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5 Easy Steps to Prepare For Your Next Game
Yury Markushin
12.09.2018

Preparing for a game has become an important factor in today’s tournament practice. In times where the level of the average chess player has increased drastically, the pre-game preparation is considered a key step towards the desired outcome: the victory.

Of course, times have changed and nowadays this task is more difficult every day.

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Dynamic vs. Static Play – When to Play for an Attack

WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
12.03.2018
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Dynamic vs. Static Play – When to Play for an Attack
Yury Markushin
12.03.2018

One of the questions we receive most often from our students is “when do I know when to play for an attack and when to stay quiet and follow the strategic path?”

The answer to this question is always contained in the position you have in front of you.

There is no rule that tells you when to do one or the other, but there are certain things in the position that usually point to the path you have to follow during your game.

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How to Gain ELO Points – 5 Tips and Secrets

WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
10.30.2018
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How to Gain ELO Points – 5 Tips and Secrets
Yury Markushin
10.30.2018

Believe it or not, the title of this article is a frequent question among club players and aficionados. I’ve been asked this on several occasions while hanging out at the chess club. I couldn’t help but notice certain hopes for a “quick fix answer” as if there was a magic trick.

Well, obviously, there isn’t any shortcut to higher ELO rating. It takes general improvement, specific training and most importantly: constant learning. This means that you need to be always learning, not just train a week with a master to get a result. In one word, consistency.

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How to Improve at Chess for Adult Players? [a secret revealed]

GM Alex Colovic
GM Alex Colovic
09.14.2018
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How to Improve at Chess for Adult Players? [a secret revealed]
Yury Markushin
09.14.2018

How frustrating is to observe kids make leaps and bounds with seemingly no work while we adults work so hard and yet we barely make progress! While it is true that sooner or later everybody reaches a plateau, I think there are other, hidden factors at work when it comes to chess improvement as adults.

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