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Listen to Your Pawn Levers

I’m enjoying using Audible. I read a lot with my work and it’s helpful to have the option of listening to books rather than read. It gives
my eyes a rest. I’m currently listening to Deep Work by Cal Newport. He recommends isolating yourself from distractions in order to
do more valuable work. It’s an interesting book. One thing he talks about to help you do the work that I had also read elsewhere was
Jerry Seinfeld’s technique of marking a cross on a calendar every day he worked on new material. Thus building a chain of crosses.
Seinfeld made it a must to never break the chain. It could be useful in terms of our chess praxis.

This was an instructive loss – the notes are Nigel’s. The major theme here was the need for White to play the e4 pawn lever which, as
you can see, I did not appreciate.

Dan Staples

This entry was posted in Articles, Dan Staples on August 17, 2017 by DanielS.

Hanging Pieces
This article aims at beginners only. When we talk about hanging pieces or pawns, the general understanding is that a piece without

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support is called a hanging piece. I would like to propose a di erent categorization, and one which can signi cantly reduce the
number of blunders by just observing and understanding them.

I largely divide hanging pieces into two categories:

A) Pieces that have no support or can have their support removed:

Pieces that have no support, or can have their support removed, are technically undefended. With pieces that are supported like this
the attacker always just remove the support and then they are just like undefended pieces.

Position A:
This is a variation from the game Miguel Najdorf vs Robert James Fischer, 1966 (White to move)

This is very simple, Qc8 check wins the rook on b7.

Position B)
Miguel Najdorf vs Robert James Fischer, 1966 (White to move)

This is the same scenario as White can rst play Nxd6. In the game Fischer resigned in view of Qxd6 and now Nxb7 and we achieved
position A in case of Rxb7. Of course Black can’t trap the knight with Qb6 or c7 because of pawn to d6.

B) Pieces performing crucial tasks are always hanging:

Here the piece is performing or going to perform a crucial defending role. It is therefore always hanging no matter how many times it
is defended. The game is usually over once it has been captured.

Here’s a position I composed myself:

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Here the bishop on c5 is defended three times but this bishop is going to perform the very important task of preventing checkmate
vai Qh6. So this bishop is hanging no matter how many times it is defended. White can win the game with Rxc5.

Ashvin Chauhan

This entry was posted in Articles, Ashvin Chauhan on August 16, 2017 by AshvinC.

Bad ideas (2)

“Errare humanum est…”
Seneca

My rst article on this subject can be revisited HERE A few days ago I stumbled in my online search over one of Magnus Carlsen
spectacular combinations when he was 12 years old. Possibly some of you might know it, while some might not. It is however safe to
assume all will enjoy reviewing it together with my 2 cents about the game. The nal combination did not happen out of the blue.
There were a number of factors involved during the game to make it possible and in my opinion the most important one was a “bad
idea” Black had in the opening. He planted the seed early and continued to water it until it grew into something nice looking and
completely useless. I feel inspired today and will call it a “game eating” idea!

Let’s have a look at the game and how the “game eating” idea developed:

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I think we must look at this game with a human eye. Black’s idea was to dominate the queen side and he achieved it. The main point
is that it was absolutely useless and when Magnus played the nal assault on the opposing king, those pieces on the queen side
were still dominating it and being absolutely useless in the same time. Black had a few opportunities to re-adjust instead of
persevering, but missed them. What do we learn out of it? The main lesson for me is the importance of piece activity (lessons 10 to
14, level 5 of our chess app). Always pay attention to what your pieces and the opposing pieces are doing at any moment. Be ready to
move them around as the position requires and expect this simple advice to be hard to follow. Please practice it as often as possible
because it is the only way to get better. Good luck!

Valer Eugen Demian

This entry was posted in Annotated Games, Intermediate (1350-1750), Strong/County (1700-2000), V.Strong/Master (1950 plus), Valer Eugen Demian on
August 15, 2017 by Valer Eugen Demian.

Controlling the Open File

Controlling an open le is especially useful when you can penetrate to the 7th or 8th ranks. Here’s a game in which I managed to do
this from the 2015 British Rapidplay Championships:

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Sam Davies

This entry was posted in Articles, Sam Davies on August 14, 2017 by Sam Davies.

He alump Swamp
The only competitive chess I’ve played for many years has been in my local league, the Thames Valley League. As I write this we’re
half way though the summer break so it’s a good time to look back to last season’s games and consider how I might do better next
time round.

My rst game last season was a quick (in more ways than one) win against a talented junior which I’ll probably come back to later. My
next match was against Kingston, a small club with a fairly strong rst team but not much in the way of reserve strength. As several
of their regular players were unavailable I found myself playing an opponent graded more than 50 points (about 400 Elo points)
below me. Now I’m normally fairly consistent: I tend to beat lower graded players, lose to higher graded players and draw with
players about my own strength, so, with the advantage of the white pieces, I was expecting a fairly comfortable victory.

Here’s what happened.

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 d5

If he’s playing this move he doesn’t know a lot about openings.

3. cxd5 Nxd5
4. Nf3 Nc6
5. e4 Nb6
6. d5 Nb8
7. Nc3 e6

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He’s hitting my centre pawn. What to do? At this point I started having visions of my opponent playing Bb4 sometime soon giving me
problems holding d5 so I panicked and looked for a way to stop this idea. Bf4, Be2 and Qd4 have all been played here and the
engines rather like a4, but I decided I should trade o the dark squared bishops and get his queen o the d- le.

In fact I have tactical resources, for instance 8. Bf4 exd5 9. exd5 Bb4 10. Qe2+ or 8. Be2 exd5 9. exd5 Bb4 10. Qd4, but these weren’t
immediately obvious to me so, after some thought, I played…

8. Bg5 Be7
9. Bxe7 Qxe7
10. Be2 O-O
11. O-O

I was happy with my lead in development, space advantage and extra centre pawn but the engines are not so impressed,
considering the position about equal.

11… N8d7

The engines tell me Black should trade on d5 here, and that I should, either now or next move, play dxe6, meeting Qxe6 with Nb5.
Not something I considered at all, of course.

12. a4 a5
13. Rc1 c6

Again he should have traded on d5, but instead he gives me the chance to play d6. Well, it’s the obvious move but again I started
panicking about the pawn eventually being surrounded by the black pieces so decided on what I thought was a safer alternative.

14. dxc6 bxc6

I was still fairly happy here. Black has an isolated pawn which I can target, and if it moves to c5 I’ll have a tasty outpost on b5. I would
also have argued that the black bishop is rather bad. The engines are still not impressed, though.

15. Nd4 Bb7

16. f4 Nf6
17. e5

Why not gain some space to go with my other advantages? I expected Nd5 here, but the engines prefer the unobvious (at this level)
tactical shot Rfd8. Instead the knight went back where it came from, so I appeared to have gained a couple of tempi.

17… Nfd7
18. Bf3

Hitting the weak pawn on c6 again.

18… Nd5

Now I have to make a decision.

19. Bxd5

At the time I was pleased with myself for having found this move. I was trading advantages: giving up a bishop for a knight and
straightening his pawns, assuming he’d take back with the c-pawn, but in exchange I’d get an outpost on b5, play on the c- le and,
potentially, a good knight against a bad bishop. I didn’t seriously consider what would happen if he took with the e-pawn. In fact
taking with the e-pawn is ne for Black and Bxd5 was a pretty poor decision. Nxd5 was OK and perhaps very slightly better for White,
as was Qd2.

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19… exd5

Never mind: I can still get my knight to d6. This must be good for me.

20. Nf5 Qe6

21. Nd6 Ba6

It hadn’t occurred to me that he now had this square for his bishop, but never mind. My rook will be happy looking at the black
queen.

22. Re1 f6

It was only now that I realised I had a problem. I can’t defend e5 again and my knight on d6 has nowhere to go. It now seemed to me
that, far from playing safe, I’d overreached and was now in trouble.

23. f5 Qe7

I couldn’t see any alternative to the speculative sacri ce on d5, but in fact there’s a tactical solution: 24. Ncb5 cxb5 25. Qxd5+ Kh8 26.
axb5, when I’m regaining the piece as the bishop is trapped (Bc8 leaves the rook on a8 hanging). I’m not a good enough tactician to
see that sort of thing, so I had to make do with…

24. Nxd5 cxd5

25. Qxd5+ Kh8

This looked fairly unclear to me: perhaps my opponent would nd the defence too di cult. But now we’re in exactly the sort of
swamp where he alumps are as likely as rabbits to drown.

26. exf6

My computer tells me I should have played 26. Rc7, which is an immediate draw by repetition after 26… fxe5 27. Qc6 and now either
27… Rfd8 28. Qd5 Rf8 or 27… Nb8 28. Qc5 Nd7. But I was starting to run low on time and it seemed natural to trade o my e-pawn
rather than leaving it en prise.

26… Qxf6

26… Nxf6, trading queens, was a probable improvement.

27. Rc7 Rad8

28. Qc6

After thinking for a bit I suddenly noticed I had a fork and jumped at the opportunity. But, unlike in the line after White’s 26th move,
it’s just a losing blunder. I’d simply missed that he could defend with Nb8, meeting both my threats and creating two threats of his
own.

It’s not obvious at my level and with the clock ticking, but 28. Rc6 Nb8 29. Re6 is the computer recommendation, apparently with
equality. The tactical point is that the immediate 28. Rc6 would allow Qxb2, but now 29… Qxb2 would lose to Nf7+.

28… Qd4+
29. Kh1 Qd2

He should have played Nb8 at this point, which just wins at once. Now I have some sort of defence.

30. Rg1 Nb8

31. Ne4 Qe2

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And here he should trade queens, which is still winning comfortably.

32. Qc3 Rd7

33. Rxd7

I had two better choices here: f6, which I think I considered but rejected, and Qc5.

33… Nxd7
34. Nd6 Nf6

34… Qd3 was correct here. Now I could and should grab the a-pawn: my only hope is to run Black out of pawns.

35. h3 Qf2
36. Rc1

Again, I should have captured on a5, which, according to my computer, is only slightly better for Black. By now neither of us had
enough time left so I’ll let the rest of the moves pass without comment.

36… Bf1
37. Qc6 Qf4
38. Rc2 Bd3
39. Rc1 Bxf5
40. Nxe4 Bxe4
40. Nxf5 Qxf5
41. Rc5 Qf1+
42. Kh2 Qf4+

At this point I stopped recording as I was down to my last couple of minutes. My opponent eventually mated me with king and rook
against king just before his ag fell.

So what went wrong? The mistakes at the end were understandable: the position was complicated and I didn’t have enough time left.
The main problem was the blunder on move 28, and before that the positional misjudgement on move 19. I could have played the
early part of the game much better, but on several occasions I didn’t play the move I knew I should have played because I was
fearing ghosts: something that happens over and over again in my games. Perhaps I was unlucky because the run of play went
against me. This sometimes happens, but my opponent played well after the opening and took enough of his chances to score a well
deserved win.

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Richard James

This entry was posted in Annotated Games, Articles, Improver (950-1400), Intermediate (1350-1750), Richard James, Strong/County (1700-2000) on
August 13, 2017 by Richard James.

Concentration for Kids

In coaching Juniors, the hardest task I face is getting my players to completely focus on the task at hand, sitting down to play chess.
Because it’s a tournament as opposed to a friendly game with nothing at stake, my team members must be able to fully concentrate
on their games. While this is di cult enough for adults, the task becomes doubly di cult when dealing with children or teenagers.
Over the years I’ve tried many techniques, some panning out better than others. To help you avoid trying methods that don’t work, I’ll
share with you some of the techniques I employ, methods that actually work!

You have to keep in mind that young minds tend to become distracted very easily. In our youth, we’re explorers of the world around
us, a world in which everything is seemingly new. It’s “seemingly new” because youngsters are often experiencing things for the rst
time. Add to this the simple fact that children and teenagers haven’t learned the art of self discipline and you have a recipe for
scattered and disjointed thoughts. This translates to a lack of focus and chess is a game that requires absolute focus. We cannot
blame youngsters for lacking the ability to totally concentrate on a speci c task, especially for long periods of time which is required
when playing in chess tournaments. However, we can help them develop concentration skills that will serve them well in chess and
more so if life!

The rst problem I have to solve is one that most parents overlook which is their child’s diet. Many youngsters with take in high levels
of sugar which causes them to become hyperactive. An active mind is crucial to chess. However, a hyperactive mind is a mind that is
thinking in a disjointed way, seemingly in seven di erent directions at once. This means that the ability to focus becomes extremely
di cult. Then there’s the simple fact that this high level of arti cial energy will wear o quickly, leaving one feeling very tired (usually
when the brain is needed most). Then there’s the individual who eats foods like hamburgers and french fries which leave them
feeling lethargic which means their brain is struggling to go in even a single direction. Therefore, my students are given strict dietary
guidelines for tournaments and I make sure their parents enforce them. The rule is simple: No sugar with the exception of fresh

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fruit. Meals prior to and during the tournament must be light. You cannot expect to concentrate unless your feed your brain wisely. I
carefully explain to my students and their parents that the brain’s reaction with certain substances can lead to dreadful results due
to the end product of that sugary biochemical reaction. Since most of my kids love science, they nd this of great interest.

The next thing I have my students do to get into the zone of absolute concentration is either Yoga, Tai Chi or some form of physical
exercise such as martial arts. Physical activity stimulates the ow of blood throughout your body, carrying much needed oxygen to
your brain. Exercise helps to wake you up. Therefore, my students engage in some physical activity prior to their tournaments. I
highly recommend Tai Chi because it really helps when it comes to centering yourself. Being centered means being having control of
both body and mind. The forms used in this softer martial art require focus and concentration but in a very natural way. If you
engage in an activity that requires too much concentration prior to the chess tournament, you may nd that you’ve expended some
of your ability to concentrate and focus before you really need it (when playing chess). Even simple exercises can be employed as
long as you don’t overdo it.

Now for the brain warm up. Of course, my students will play practice games prior to their tournament games. However, I make them
do a series of brain games to hone their ability to focus and concentrate. The rst thing they do is play a few rounds of Solitaire, that
old standby game found on most computers. The reason I have them play Solitaire is because it requires a small amount of focus,
speci cally in the area of pattern recognition. I build up the level of focus through the series of brain games my students engage in.
Next I have my students count cards. That’s right, counting cards as in Black Jack. Of course, I don’t tell them it’s part of being able to
successfully play Black Jack. With card counting, you assign three sets of numerical values to the various cards in the deck and keep
track of the numerical count. I don’t want to turn this into a card counting lesson so you can look this up online. The point is that my
students will have to focus and concentrate a little harder than when they were playing Solitaire. Again, it helps with pattern
recognition.

Lastly, I have my students do a series of chess puzzles. The puzzles start o easy and get harder as we go along. The puzzles I use
will require the students to look at the entire board. It’s important that they don’t start their games with tunnel vision, looking only at
the part of the board where all the action is taking place. They need to see the entire board and do threat assessments, looking for
potential threats such as hanging pieces, etc. The puzzles I use cover these issues.

We end our warm up sessions with a talk about good sportsmanship. Being a gracious winner and even more gracious loser is an
absolute must with me. Act poorly and you are o the team. I tell my students that if they win they should consider the simple fact
that their opponent probably isn’t feeling great about losing and thus ask themselves how they would feel if they lost and the winner
was jumping up and down, screaming with joy. Shake hands and say good game! When losing I tell my students that becoming upset
and crying only serves to make the victor’s win more sweet (there are a lot of sore winners on the junior chess circuit here). In short
be kind no matter what the result.

So this is the basis of how I get my students to concentrate going into their tournaments. It works for adults as well! As for results,
my students have owned many local titles for the last three years so I must be doing something right. Here’s a game to enjoy until
next week.

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Hugh Patterson

This entry was posted in Articles, Children's Chess, Hugh Patterson on August 12, 2017 by Hugh Patterson.

Return of the Dead Eyes

Fans of this blog may have noticed that I have not posted a new article in a year. Around 20 July 2016 I had a brain stroke, A blood
clot hit the right side of my brain and that did quite a bit of damage. A year later I still can barely see or feel a keyboard! That has
made writing articles very di cult! Luckily, I found a doctor that will perform the cataract surgery that I have needed for the past year.
I will still need glasses for reading and I will still have a huge blind spot on my left side.

I was in Penrose hospital for 3 days before I was transferred to the VA hospital that is in Denver, Colorado.

While I was in these hospitals I could not log into the ICCF server to take a time out or play a move. That, in turn, caused me to lose
several cc games on time forfeit. My ICCF rating took a big hit!

Luckily, I was able to enter new events and I have had some decent results in them.

The game below is one of my recent draws with an expert on ICCF.

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After my eye surgeries are completed and I can nally see again, I will write regular articles again. I will “see” you all then!

Mike Serovey

This entry was posted in Articles, Mike Serovey, News, V.Strong/Master (1950 plus) and tagged English Opening on August 11, 2017 by Mike Serovey.

Chess Bans
As The Chess Improver prides itself as being on the side of individual freedom, I though it worth taking a look at where chess and
chess players have been banned by various authorities. Bill Wall produced a good list of chess bans here and there’s another good
one here.

One of the most disturbing features of both lists is the high number of recent cases. Many of the bans have been religious in origin,
others for political reasons. Typically these are examples of authorities dishing out penalties, presumably for some perceived ‘good
of the collective’, or perhaps no reason at all. The cynic might think that such actions originate in the drive towards authoritarianism
with ever more regulation and ever more punishment.

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What neither list covers is the e ective ban of strong players from certain tournaments, there is simply no section for them to play in
with the ones that are available being rating restricted. I do wonder about the message this sends out, that if someone becomes too
good at the game they are simply not welcome. Of course it is unlikely that it was intended this way, many events nd that the top
sections attract fewer participants and yet higher prizes are expected.

In any case I think it is worth balancing such budgeting concerns against the idea that chess itself is a profound expression of
personal responsibility and individual striving. You get what you deserve with chess, it is hard to make excuses and the nobility of
the game lies in our e orts to improve and do a bit better next time. Penalizing strong players can be seen as being in direct
opposition to these ideals, which creates the possibility that such actions may diminish or even destroy the game itself.

Nigel Davies

This entry was posted in Articles, Nigel Davies on August 10, 2017 by NigelD.

Tiny Pawn Weaknesses

When your opponent is controlling the open le, we automatically go for trade of rooks if possible. Here is a position in which White
did this.

Erich Cohn vs Akiba Rubinstein, 1909

At rst glance it seems that White is perfectly OK as there is no way for Black to create any passed pawn in spite of White’s doubled
pawns on f le. Can you see any hole in White’s position? Actually White’s doubled pawn weakness can be exploited in the king and
pawn endgame. Rubinstein’s play is really instructive from here:

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In the following game Kasparov played 9 d6. Although this does not win material directly it xes the pawn on d7 and therefore
creates huge problems for Black in development. The rest of the game seems technical:

Ashvin Chauhan

This entry was posted in Articles, Ashvin Chauhan on August 9, 2017 by AshvinC.

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“What Say You?” The 1 Minute Challenge
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer”
Bruce Lee

I have been talking a lot in my previous articles about gut instinct in chess. It relies heavily on personal knowledge and experience,
reason why we all need to continuously work on both. I have been thinking for a while now about how to help you get better at it and
the best idea I could come up with is to get closer to a game situation. How does this work? Well, time has become an important
factor in the game; long gone are the days of 40 moves in 2 hours, one or two adjournments and an adjudication by a selected panel
consisting of the best players in the tournament. These days we need to make our decisions much faster. Here is how I propose you
do it:

Have a look at the position for 1 minute (watch the clock)

Think about the choices in front of you and pick the one you feel it is right
Verify it in your mind the best you can
Compare it with the solution

Are you ready? Let’s start with the position below:

OK, hope you have timed yourself. You can compare now your thoughts with mine gathered in the same fashion:

My rst thought was this position resembled the famous Reti study (W: Kh8, c6 B: Ka6, h5); however the g-pawn is more
advanced and Reti’s solution cannot help
Since the g-pawn is 3 moves away from promoting and cannot be stopped, we must push a pawn forward; this immediately
eliminates any king move (line A)
I have 2 pawns to choose from, but the a-pawn gets blocked after 1 move
Moving the h-pawn rst (line B) allows me to push it all the way to h7 and when Black promotes g1=Q, Kh8 is trapped in the
corner; my a5-pawn still has a move to give but after pushing it, I think Black cannot win anymore
This looks very good so far and becomes my choice
There is a bit of time left and I am thinking what would happen if 1. h5 Ka6 the only other possibility for Black? One thing easy
to see is I will have to move Kh8-g7 and Black will promote g1=Q with check; hmm that gives Black tempi to bring his queen all
the way to g6, move his king aside Ka6-b5 to avoid stalemate and that will force the a5-pawn to move (3 moves to promotion).
White would need just 2 moves Qg6-f7-f8#
Line B is now busted and the solution is now obvious

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Did you get it all that in 1 minute? If you did, congratulations! The queen versus pawn endgame (lesson 17, level 2 of our chess app)
can occur quite often at club level play, especially when the players are closely matched. The most likely pawn to give trouble is the
side pawn (either a- or h-) and knowing how to deal with it can save you invaluable half points. Do not forget to review it whenever
you get the chance like in this study. Hope you liked it!

Valer Eugen Demian

This entry was posted in Endgames, Improver (950-1400), Intermediate (1350-1750), Strong/County (1700-2000), V.Strong/Master (1950 plus), Valer
Eugen Demian and tagged endgames on August 8, 2017 by Valer Eugen Demian.

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