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Hm, I am 54 and I found that whenever I try to "improve" my current rating, I lose some games (and points) and have trouble reaching the former rating again. This applies to OTB chess as well as to in…

I usually study an opening in the context of an entire game (often grandmaster games, but also games played by other strong players like FMs or IMs or so are useful). Also it is useful not only to kno…

@OctoPinky said in #50: > Like fiber optics pioneer Narinder Singh Kapany: > > www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/physics/the-indian-physicist-who-bent-light/ Yes, and I add Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman …

The variation you've shown is OK for Black. Your analysis shows that 6... Nxc6 is already equal, and the exchange 7.Bxc6+ (as shown in the game) already favors Black. Black has a number of good defens…

Which side is to move? White has only a little pressure against b7, but Black could play Na5 (if it's his turn). Black has the pair of bishops, the white bishop on c3 is ok, but its usefulness is limi…

W.A.Mozart, he was not only funny and full of jokes, but he liked also dogs (he once wrote a funny poem about a dog born in Vienna). And of course he was a great composer.

I like that one. :) I remember that a former colleague of mine wanted to be stricter with the younger students he had to supervise. He used to "train" this situation at home by yelling at his teddy be…

What if a person does indeed a lot of training but still keeps getting worse?!

I am bad at new year's resolutions, but I will try to play fewer Blitz games, and instead try to complete working through a chess DVD about 'decision making in chess'.

@thib1 said in #13: > I don’t understand because in one of your last posts you wrote that the correct mindset to have in order to improve was to stop caring about the rating..? As far as I recall it, …