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For a beginner focused on reducing blunders, should I study positional theory or tactics more?
I've been playing chess for about a month, learning strategies and principles along the way. Initially, reviewing my games to identify frequent mistakes helped me progress from a complete novice to ...
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Why is my theoretical knowledge is not coming to any use?
For the last few months, I have been reading "How To Reassess Your Chess (I expected at least this book to work), "Simple Chess," "The Art Of Attack," some ending book, "...
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Chuzhakin's System Hazardous Elements and Rules
A short time ago, I ran across some short texts and a short video about Chuzhakin's system to spot tactics and avoid blunders.
What little I've seen seems really to help me. And so I'm looking for ...
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What I thought was winning tactic, apparently was mistake
I was recently playing a game as black against the Ponziani when this position came up. (I recommend you flip all the boards to show from black's perspective)
Here's the beginning of the game:
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