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June 2025

Two Shocking Moves in the Sicilian Defence
I have been playing and following chess all my life and I have seen quite a lot.
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Alex Colovic
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Grandmaster Understanding
We usually know what grandmaster understanding means - a blend of knowledge of common plans, structures and ideas with the personal intuition of the…
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Alex Colovic
An Instructive Rook Endgame
The following rook endgame, and the way the players handled it, is very interesting.
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Alex Colovic
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Curiosity
I read somewhere that one of the secrets to Korchnoi's longetivity at the top was his constant desire to learn something new.
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Alex Colovic

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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Alex Colovic
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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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Alex Colovic
Learning from Live Commentary
Nobody wants to lose.
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Alex Colovic
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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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Alex Colovic
How Hard Is This?
Take a look at the following study:
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Alex Colovic

April 2025

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