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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 »

Rounds of games and time in between

Last Saturday, Abe and I went to a chess tournament. Abe did so-so if not poorly in the tournament. He lost one, drew one, and won two, all to lower rated opponents. Of course, there were still some thing good about the tournament. It’s not, however, the chess games themselves; it is the time in between [...]

Monday May 10th, 2010 in , analysis, chess, kid, learn, loss, rating, video games | No Comments »

From chess board to basketball court

Last Saturday, Abe and I went to the the Blaze Fundraiser tournament. Abe hadn’t been to chess tournaments for about a month since he loved playing basketball games on Saturdays. The reason that I chose this tournament with assumption that Abe can play the chess tournament and still make his basketball game was: The chess [...]

Monday February 8th, 2010 in , analysis, basketball, blunders, chess, tournament | 2 Comments »

The chess scorebook

Disclaimer: The story was based on what happened yesterday. How could that happen to me? It’s all my fault. My wife was complaining that I always have a problem not be able to get organized. “Do you know you look cumbersome when you drag everything by your hands instead of putting most in you bag?” [...]