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  1. Training

Games in PGN

Christmas Puzzles 2020
Adolf Anderssen
Blunders -- Backwards moves
Magnus Carlsen
Two endgame ideas
Xavery Tartakower
Schliemann Gambit inspiration
Grotesque!
Lessons from Judit Polgar
Hastings 1895
Bishop sacrifice and Double Bishop sacrifice
Knight to e5 (or e4)
Desperado
How to play with your QUEEN
How to play with BISHOPS
Anatoly Karpov
Robert Fischer
Boris Spassky
Tigran Petrosian
Vasily Smyslov
Mikhail Botvinnik
Max Euwe
Alexander Alekhin
Mikhail Tal
Frank Marshall wins with the Queen's Gambit
Jose Raul Capablanca
Emanuel Lasker
"Tactics flow from a superior position" Bobby Fischer
Opening Traps
Wilhelm Steinitz
Basic Mates (CCpgn)
How to play with KNIGHTS
Playing against an IQP
Playing with an IQP
How to use your ROOKS
Pawn breakthroughs
Tarrasch's opening trap is a course in tactics
How good is your chess? 3
How deep can you go?
Winning one square at a time
Tarrasch-Kurschner 1889
A course in chess tactics
The Pillsbury Attack
Capablanca's Endgames
How Good is Your Chess? Game 1
U14/U18 games Chepstow 2020
Pawn majorities
Grunfeld_Shenkein 1922
What have we learned today? "Bronstein is cool"
Endgame tactics
Crash! Bang! Wallop! Sacrifices on the King's-side
Gambits

Chess Tips

OPENING TIPS:

(Nimzowitsch) 2. A pawn move must not in itself be regarded as a devloping move, but merely as an aid to development.

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