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May 2025

Botvinnik and AlphaZero
Botvinnik's name is usually not associated with dynamic play, but in fact he was the first player who discovered the dynamic possibilities in the…
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How Do You Evaluate a Position?
Most of the times evaluating a position is not that difficult.
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Learning from Live Commentary
Nobody wants to lose.
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Complete and Utter Confusion
While looking at a line in the Queen's Gambit Declined I realised how quickly things can go out of hand when analysing with engines.
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How Hard Is This?
Take a look at the following study:
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April 2025

How to Recapture
While analysing one line in the Catalan I arrived at the following position.
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Real Chess
This post is about the current realities in the chess world.
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How To Think for Yourself
The subject of this email is in fact the name of an essay by Paul Graham, a computer scientist, essayist and enterpreneur (and not a chess player).
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A Deceitful Rook Endgame
The position below arose in the rapid game Carlsen-Vachier, at the Grand Chess Tour Finals in London in December 2019.
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March 2025

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