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Lecture by Lufei Ruan

In case you do not know Ms. Ruan, she is the runner up in the 2010 Women’s World Chess Championship, and she is also a full time student pursuing her PHD degree in accounting at Carnegie Mellon University. What an opportunity it’s to join the lecture by a world elite chess player who is, at [...]

Monday March 14th, 2011 in , advice, chess, disagree, freedom, kid, lecture, local, Lufei Ruan, parenting, parents, student, weakness, Women's World Chess Championship | No Comments »

The virtue of game analyses

From the handouts of several Abe’s recent summer chess camps, I saw more than once: “It is absolutely necessary to analyze of your game”. I guess there are two ways to analyze the game— do it yourself or with other people. When you do it yourself, some assistance, mostly computer software, is needed to point [...]

Friday August 27th, 2010 in , advice, analysis, book, chess, chess master, computer software, end game, luck, positinal, private coach, slow down, strong opponent, tactic, tournament, video games, weakness | No Comments »

Let it be

I was glad Abe was calm and in not a bad mood this raining Saturday. If you follow this blog, you know that he’s been in a slump in chess recently. In order for him to break out of the slump, I made the following plan: 1) He should play more games. 2) He should [...]