Sunday, February 14, 2016

Piece Functions

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In earlier posts ( here , and here ) I described a new approach I am taking to teaching chess to my son using the concept of the Three Leve...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

"Connecting" with my son

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My new job has kept me extremely busy and it has been several months since my last post, but I wanted to quickly update on my son's tra...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Next Blog Series

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Now that I have nearly finished my 20+ blog series on calculation -- I am putting the final touches on my last post in the counterattacking...
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Monday, June 29, 2015

Teaching Chess to My Children

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When they turned 5, I taught my daughters how to play chess using Lev Alburt’s Comprehensive Chess Course (vol 1 and 2).  My older daughter...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Calculating Forcing Moves: Defensive Idea 5 - Counterattack to DEFEND (Idea 3, move)

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In this post we’ll examine a position where there is a real threat on the board, and we will create an EGT in order to allow our piece to e...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Calculating Forcing Moves: Defensive Idea 1, Part 4 (Restrict the Attacker, Prepare to Capture)

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In earlier posts we examined different ways of implementing defensive Idea 1 (do something to the attacker), including capturing, pinning, ...
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Monday, June 1, 2015

Calculating Forcing Moves: Defensive Idea 5 - Counterattack to DEFEND (Idea 1, capture)

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In the last few posts on counterattacking we created Equal or Greater Threats (EGT) that allowed us to force a WIN, and to force DRAWs (by ...