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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let me start the lesson with a question. Do you know<span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> what determines</strong></span> your<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WIN/LOSS</strong></span> in a chess game?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whether you win or lose is determined by your:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s quite obvious that the <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">opening phase</b></span> is <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MORE important</b></span>, because if you don’t play it well, you will lose before you can demonstrate your middlegame/endgame skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then, here’s the next question you need to think about – <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">how do you play an opening properly?</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In order to play the opening properly, a lot of people believe that one should just study a lot of <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">opening variations</span></b> and <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">typical ideas/tricks</span></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although this is partly correct, there’s actually a <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">huge hole</b></span> here. Let me give you an example.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11490" height="300" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1.png" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">White’s turn</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, we see the starting position of the Scheveningen variation of the Sicilian Defence. What move can White play here?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Almost <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">anything</b>!</span> For instance: <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be2</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bc4</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">g3</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be3</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">f4</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">g4</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bg5</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">f3</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Qf3</strong> and the list goes on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do you really need to study <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">all</b></span> these lines? Of course <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOT</b></span>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The opening stage lasts for <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">15-20 moves</span></b> and on every move both opponents can play around <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10 different logical moves</b></span>. Ultimately, this generates many thousands (<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">perhaps millions</b></span>) of variations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Obviously, there’s no way for us to <span style="color: #ff6600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">analyse</b></span> and <span style="color: #ff6600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">remember</b></span> them all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Therefore, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">w</em>e should <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">learn</b> the most <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">logical moves only</b></span>. For example, in the Scheveningen variation, Black certainly should know some theory in the main lines, like <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6.Be2</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6.g4</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6.Be3</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6.Bc4.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But what about other possible options for White? Should Black learn the lines arising from <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6.Bb5</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6.Nb3</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6.Qf3</strong>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6.h3</strong>,<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </b>etc.?</span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11494" height="300" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3.png" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NO!</strong> You can’t learn it all anyway. If you dig too deep in your opening study, you will not have time for mastering <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">other vitally important</b></span>skills: <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">calculation</b></span>, <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">tactics</b></span>, <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">positional play</b></span>, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Therefore, there can be<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">two situations</span></strong> in an opening:</span></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You play a <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">theoretical variation</b></span> based on your home preparation.</span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Your game turns into a <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sideline</b></span> or your opponent surprises you with an unexpected move. An unknown position appears and you need to find correct moves by yourself.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These two situations will happen equally often. Again, let’s be <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">realistic</b>. You can’t learn all possible opening variations – it’s an unworkable aspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FINAL CONCLUSION:</strong></span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> how do you play an opening successfully?</strong></span></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/check.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> You need to choose the right opening variations (<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">your opening repertoire</b></span>) and learn the NECESSARY lines within them.</span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/check.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need to know the <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">general rules/principles</b></span> of opening play and how you can find correct moves in unknown opening positions.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you’ve watched the video I published a few years ago, </i><span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Professional Opening Preparation”</i></b></span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (</i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtE5lWcqQ7A" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Professional Opening Preparation"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</i></b></a><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">), that’s good for you!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Regarding the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">opening variations</span></strong> – there are a lot of existing chess books/DVDs about virtually any opening you can think of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of these tutorials are even pretty good. However, there are still some problems here:</span></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Studying various opening variations takes a lot of your <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">time</b></span>.</span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As we’ve already discussed, you can’t learn <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">everything</span></i></b> anyway.</span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Your opponents have access to the same tutorials you have.</span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are opening tutorials about all possible opening variations and you don’t know what will work <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">best</b></span> for <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">YOU</b>.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As for the<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"> general rules/principles of opening play</span></strong><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"> </span></b>– this topic is almost completely missing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, there are some well-known opening rules like <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“develop pieces”</b></span>, <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“fight for the centre”</b></span> and so on, but these are very <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">basic rules</b></span>. Even beginners know such ideas and, in many positions, they simply cannot help you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let me emphasise this with another example.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11497" height="300" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/4.png" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">White’s turn</strong></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Above we see a very popular variation of the Ruy Lopez. How should White play here?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As you can see, the <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">basic</b> opening rules <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">don’t help</b></span> here. For example, it is true that<span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“we should fight for the centre”</b></span>, but he’s already fighting. So what should he do? <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most modern openings lead to <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">complex</b></span> positions, where you need to use more<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">advanced </b></span>rules. Surprisingly, this topic is almost completely missing in opening tutorials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So what is the solution?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To overcome these difficulties, I recommend you to study the opening courses I’ve prepared for <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">YOU</b>. You’ll find solutions to all these questions in the courses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of my students have already studied these courses. Moreover, after studying them, they had some <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">questions</b></span> and sent them to me. Therefore, I have answered them all in the <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BONUS pack</b> </span>(<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/1511-18.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Bonus Pack"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you really want to have <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SUCCESSFUL</b></span> opening play, I recommend you to buy the<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Opening Bundle</b>”</span> which has <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">both parts</span></b> of the <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Opening Lab</span></b> course, including the<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">BONUS pack</span></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">NOW is the <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FINAL reminder</b></span> for you to sign up for the upcoming webinar,<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“My Thinking System”</span>, </b>which will be conducted by <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">ME</span></b> on Saturday 6 December at 3 P.M. GMT (check timings here: <a href="http://goo.gl/Y4NB2O" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="GMT Timings"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a>). Join now: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=515" target="_blank">Standard</a> or <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/1511-35.html" target="_blank">Premium</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">RCA’s <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Special Offers</b></span> in honour of reaching <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">1 MILLION</span></b> views on YouTube have finished!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks everyone for your support! Most importantly, let me congratulate all the<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">WINNERS</span></b>! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Below is the list of students who got a<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">free course</b></span> from RCA:</span></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6. Rosauro Gordon, Philippines</span></strong></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Antonio, Italy</span></strong></li>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">9. Leonardo, USA</span></strong></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">10. Per Ivar, Norway</span></strong></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">* <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For privacy purposes, we state only the first name of the winners on the website. All winners were contacted. </i>In addition to that, other students have got a <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">free webinar</b></span>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Congratulations to all WINNERS</span></b>! I’m sure you’ll enjoy your prize! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For those who missed this event, please don’t be upset. You can take part in our future events, including the <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Christmas Day Bonanza”</b></span> (<a href="http://goo.gl/7vYpDE" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Christmas Day Bonanza"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a>). <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We’ve also prepared a video for you explaining the event. Check it now here:<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://goo.gl/aCdgLS" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Christmas Day Bonanza">LINK</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">NOTE:</span></b> The <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">last date</b></span> for entry for the <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Christmas Day Bonanza”</b> is <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10.12.2014</b></span>, so you have a period of less than a week. If you really want to win <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">BIG PRIZES</span></b>, you need to start collecting the games and annotating them at your very <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BEST LEVEL</span>!</b> For details about the event, click here: <a href="http://goo.gl/7vYpDE" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Christmas Day Bonanza"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a>. Good luck! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We all witnessed a great World Chess Championship match this year. It was truly a<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">tough</b></span> competition for the players and Carlsen has <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">justified the odds</span></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Therefore, your ‘favorite’ <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">guest coach</span></b> of RCA, <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IM Valeri Lilov</b></span>, has prepared a<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">video</b></span> for YOU, where he explains the <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">highlights</b></span> and the <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">critical</b></span> and <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">instructive situations</b></span> of the recent World Championship match.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, let me remind you that we’re conducting a survey as we’re planning to provide <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">RCA branded products</strong></span> for you. For instance, a T-shirt that has the RCA logo on it can be added to our shop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But not only that, we’re planning to provide <span style="color: teal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">many products</strong></span> for you. And that’s why, you need to let us know what you want by taking part in the survey: <a href="http://goo.gl/df4rD1" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Survey"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">P.S. </b>I have an idea to visit <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Austria</strong></span> in the coming months. If you live in this country – please, send me an e-mail to <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/anand-carlsen-2014/gm.smirnov2014@gmail.com" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Send a mail">gm.smirnov2014@gmail.com</a>. We might get a chance to meet personally <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-73527163634158563832014-10-07T21:08:00.001-07:002014-10-07T21:08:13.434-07:00Chess Engines and a NEW course in Spanish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nowadays, most chess players learn and practice chess by using <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">COMPUTERS</b>. There are many chess programs like ChessBase, Fritz, etc., and they have a lot of chess ‘engines’ installed (Rybka, Houdini and so on).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course, engines are very strong: they <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">calculate</b> a lot of variations and <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">evaluate</b>a position in not more than a minute. The most important question for YOU, though, is: <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">how to use chess engines PROPERLY?</span> </b>How to utilize the great power of chess programs <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">for your benefit</span>?<span id="more-9832" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In order to answer this question, we’ve invited an active chess player – <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GM Mikhailo Oleksienko</strong> – to join us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He’s the current <a href="http://goo.gl/zqGH5v" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ukrainian Rapid Chess Champion</a>, has won a couple of international tournaments and achieved an awesome 2640 rating in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sunday, 12 October, at 4p.m. BST (<a href="http://goo.gl/ZYrmKG" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="BST Time zone">London time</a>)</span> you can attend GM Mikhailo Oleksienko’s webinar <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Chess engines: how to use them properly?”</b>. You can get all the details and sign up here:</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Chess Engines: how to use them properly?”</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">by GM <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mikhailo Oleksienko</b></span></span></h2>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chess Engines: how to use them properly?</span></strong></h4>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">GM Mikhailo Oleksienko</span></strong></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">90 minutes.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">limited to 100.</span></h4>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=289" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Standard">Standard ticket</a> = $15; <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/1511-35.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Premium">Premium ticket</a> = $20</span></em></h4>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is “a webinar”?</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During a webinar, you have communication with a coach in live mode. A coach tells you the tasks, while you can ask your questions. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is real TRAINING, which develops your SKILLS</b></span></em>. Hence, you’ll be able to improve your chess strength properly during the webinar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A video lesson or a text article provides some information to you. Any chess player can find tons of information about a chess game on the Internet. So what? Has this overabundance of content made you a strong player? Probably not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Information does not affect your play. Only a new SKILL can do so.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chess engines: how to use them properly?</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nowadays, many chess players learn and practice chess by using <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">computers</b>. There are many chess programs/software like ChessBase, Fritz, etc. and they have a lot of chess ‘engines’ installed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course, engines are very <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">‘quick’:</span> they <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">calculate</b> a lot of variations and moves and <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">evaluate</b> the position in <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOT</b> more than a minute. That said, it does <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOT</b></span>mean that <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">engines are the BEST</b></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In this webinar, GM Mikhailo Oleksienko will teach you <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">how to use chess engines</span></b></span>properly (use the core of your computer and pay attention to the depth) and show you some positions where computers evaluate positions <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">completely wrongly</span></b></span>. Also, he will show some positions where <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">computers blunder</span></b> or do <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">not</span></b> see the win.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">GM Mikhailo Oleksienko</span></strong></span><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-9828 aligncenter" height="240" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Untitled.png" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="242" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">GM Mikhailo Oleksienko was born on 30 September 1986. In 2008, he graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv National University (Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics). In May of 2012, he was awarded a PhD in mathematics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2002, he received the title of International Master and in 2005 became a Grand Master.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mikhailo Oleksienko’s achievements:</span></strong></span></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">PhD in Mathematics</span></strong></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joint winner of 20th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival (UAE) 2013</span></strong></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joint winner of David Bronstein Memorial (Belarus) 2014</span></strong></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joint winner of ZMDI Open (Germany) 2013</span></strong></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joint winner of Pardubice Open (Czech Republic) 2013</span></strong></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Students with <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">a premium ticket</span> may submit their own games and questions for the webinar. You can check out the details here: <a href="http://goo.gl/ksxRBC" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LINK</a></span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After you have registered for the webinar, you’ll be given the chance to submit your games and questions.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the recent article <a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.in/2014/09/opening-traps-new-course-in-spanish.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“Opening Traps & A New Course in Spanish”</a>, we released a Spanish translation of the course “An Endgame Expert”. It has had MASSIVE popularity! It seems like c<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hess development is now huge in Spanish-speaking countries</strong>. This is a very nice fact indeed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Moreover, we have released <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">another course</span></b> for you in <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Spanish</span></b>! <img alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">NOW you can get the <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Spanish</b></span> version of <span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Your Winning Plan”</b></span>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOTE:</strong> Each additional language pack for a course that you already own is only $7. For example, if you already own an English version of the course,<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Your Winning Plan”</b>, you can get its Spanish version for <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">just $7</b></span>. Get your Language Pack here:<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=288" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LINK</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, now there are a total of <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">5 courses</span></b> which are translated into <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SPANISH</b>. You can check them all here: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=287" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LINK</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you haven’t even studied an <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">English</b> version of the course, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Your Winning Plan“</b>, this is the right time to do so!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Planning is a core element of a chess game. This is also one of the most <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">complex</span>topics to understand. That’s why you might suffer from facing those positions where you did NOT know how to proceed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The course, “Your Winning Plan”, gives you an <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">integrated system of middle-game planning</span></b>. Using this method, you will be able <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">to find the right plan</b> in any position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Unlike average “wood-pushers”, you will <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">not</span> need to remember numerous “typical plans”. Instead, you will UNDERSTAND positions and will KNOW which plan to take.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Below are some of the experiences of my students.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the course “YOUR WINNING PLAN”, you get clear practical recommendations to help channel your thoughts in each position. It is a systematic approach that guides your thinking process. There is not only attention for pure technical aspects but also for psychological skills. For practice these planning skills there a lot of relevant and varied tasks.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Before I had studied this course, I was not sure in complicated positions when and where I would advance my pawns. Now I know exactly what to do. The 18th century chess master Philidor once say “The pawns are the soul of chess”.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks the concrete recommendations of the course ”YOUR WINNING PLAN” I can give my pawns a soul in my games.</span></i></span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Werner Poets</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I bought all your courses in a small period of time. I liked it. No surprise there.It has a great effect on my game. I play stronger and better chess than before.You really seem to know what’s important and what’s not.You have the ability and the knowledge to teach good chess. Loving every bit of it!</span></i></span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Erik Bandsma</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wanted something that will guide me to the right plan without eating up my time. And this is where Your Winning Plan excels!It gives you easy to remember guidelines for planning. Each phase is taken apart in a chapter – Igor takes the time explaining what to look for and why…in a way that’s NOT overwhelming for the student.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of every chapter, Igor gives a summary that the reader can print out and review before a tournament game. (That’s exactly what I did)</span></i></span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jassen Esguerra</span></i></b></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-77159355309296587462014-10-07T20:57:00.000-07:002014-10-07T20:57:42.677-07:00How to beat Kasparov & GM Smirnov’s DVDs!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">NOW, it’s the final <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">REMINDER</b> </span>for you to join our upcoming webinar <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/playing-for-a-win/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“Playing for a win”</a> </strong>by <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GM Maxim Dlugy (Sunday, October 5)</b>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In this webinar you will learn:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="more-9736" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>In the previous article <span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“How to beat Garry Kasparov”</i></b></span> I’ve shared with you an instructive game Dlugy – Kasparov (if you missed that game, check it out <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/how-to-beat-garry-kasparov/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>). It’s a really cool game, isn’t it? <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> There is no doubt that GM Dlugy has <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">played for a WIN</span></b></span> in that game and has <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">beaten</b> </span>legendary Gary Kasparov.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now let’s test YOUR skills in another game between the same opponents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Garry Kasparov – Maxim Dlugy<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kasparov-Dlugy.jpg" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Kasparov-Dlugy" class="aligncenter wp-image-9737" height="446" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kasparov-Dlugy.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="446" /></a></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Black’s turn</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The task is still the same: <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you need to beat Garry Kasparov!</span> Don’t forget that Kasparov is a dangerous opponent; right now he’s going to mate you by Rh1 move. Can you stop it somehow?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After you’ve came up with your solution, please, check the actual game here: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/garry-kasparov-maxim-dlugy/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you want to know how GM Dlugy could beat Garry Kasparov repeatedly, you can ask him directly on Sunday webinar <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/playing-for-a-win/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“Playing for a win”</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GM Smirnov’s courses are now available in DVDs!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For a couple of years my complete courses were available in <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a </span></span><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">downloadable format</span> </strong>solely. However, I’ve been asked repeatedly by different students to provide <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">DVDs</span></strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It took some organizational efforts, but I’ve arranged this for you. Hence, <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">now you can get any of my complete courses <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">on a DVD!</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you have slow or paid internet connection, it’s not a problem anymore (you will NOT need to download a course from the Internet).</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/shop/chess-courses/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="All Courses"><img alt="all-courses" class="aligncenter wp-image-9739" height="324" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/all-courses.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="384" /></a><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/1511-26.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="All Courses"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><< Get any Course on a DVD Now! >></b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you wish to use this option – please, contact our support team: <a href="https://chessteacher.zendesk.com/home" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">LINK.</a> You may send us an e-mail to <a href="mailto:support@chessteacher.zendesk.com" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">support@chessteacher.zendesk.com</a> as well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From my side, I do NOT charge you anything for a DVD. You only pay to the post (or alternative delivery company) for a DVD creation and shipping to you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff9900; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">USEFUL LINKS:</span></span></b></span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-80463901510847692262014-10-01T05:50:00.000-07:002014-10-01T05:50:35.717-07:00How to beat Garry Kasparov and Play for win?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s my pleasure to announce that your next live training session will be conducted by<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GM Maxim Dlugy</b>.</span> He’s a VERY well-known person in the chess world:</span></div>
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<img alt="Dlugy" class=" wp-image-9623 alignleft" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Dlugy.jpeg" height="196" style="border: none; float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" width="196" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="plusorange" class=" wp-image-2587 alignnone" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/plusorange.jpg" height="13" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="13" /> He won the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Junior_Chess_Championship" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="World Junior Chess Championship">World Junior Chess Championship</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="plusorange" class="alignnone" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/plusorange.jpg" height="13" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="13" /> Was formerly ranked #1 in the world by the World Blitz Chess Association</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="plusorange" class="alignnone" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/plusorange.jpg" height="13" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="13" /> Got silver and bronze medals in a couple of US championships (and he was a president of US chess federation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="plusorange" class="alignnone" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/plusorange.jpg" height="13" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="13" /> and the list goes on and on…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sunday, October 5, at 4pm BST</b> you can attend GM Dlugy’s webinar <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Playing for a WIN”</b></span>. You can get all the details and sign up <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/1511-35.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Premium">here</a>:<span id="more-9619" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/1511-35.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Webinar Dlugy"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Webinar-1024x7031" class="aligncenter wp-image-9627" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Webinar-1024x70311.jpg" height="338" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="491" /></span></a><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/1511-35.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Webinar Dlugy"><< Sign up for GM Dlugy’s webinar >></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Live Webinar</span></h2>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Playing for a WIN”</span></h2>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by GM Maxim Dlugy</span></h2>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=270" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Standard">Standard ticket</a> = $10; <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/1511-35.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Premium">Premium ticket</a> = $15.</span></i></h4>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is “a webinar”?</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During a webinar, you have communication with a coach in live mode. A coach tells you the tasks, while you can ask your questions. <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is real TRAINING, which develops your SKILLS</b></span></i>. Hence, you’ll be able to improve your chess strength properly during the webinar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A video lesson or a text article provides some information to you. Any chess player can find tons of information about a chess game on the Internet. So what? Has this overabundance of content made you a strong player? Probably not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Information does not affect your play. Only a new SKILL can do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How to play for a WIN when the tournament situation demands a desperate win? How to plan both psychologically and strategically, conduct the game and get a favorable result?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You’ll learn to do exactly this into GM Dlugy’s webinar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can check out some extra information and a highly instructive game Dlugy – Kasparov here: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/how-to-beat-garry-kasparov/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Webinar Dlugy">LINK</a></span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">GM Maxim Dlugy</span></b></div>
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<img alt="dlugy-231x300" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-9652" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/dlugy-231x300.jpg" height="300" style="border: none; float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" width="231" /><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was in Moscow at 6 years of age that Maxim first developed his interest in chess from his grandfather Max Ritov, an International Master who played on one team with David Bronstein. Maxim was completely taken by chess and spent a lot of time playing adults.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By the time the family moved to Queens in New York Maxim was devouring chess books. In the summer of 1977 he was taken to the famous Manhattan Chess Club, where young Maxim dazzled club members. In his first event he scored three out of four against the clubs top juniors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jack Collins, who gained near legendary status by being an early teacher of Bobby Fischer, became Maxim’s first formal trainer. After that he worked with USCF Senior Master Jeffrey Kastner, then with VitalyZaltsman, under whose training he became known as one of the world’s most talented young players. Later on Dlugy has continued his successful chess career.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Maxim Dlugy’s achievements:</b></span></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Got medals in a couple of international tournaments: “New York Open”, “World Open”, “American Open” etc.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please, note that the time of the webinar is limited. We can’t answer all students’ questions. Hence, we will select the questions based on:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">GM Dlugy is a powerful blitz player who has a fascinating attacking style. <i style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now YOU have a unique chance to adopt his attacking methods and incorporate them into YOUR games. </span></b></i>In the meanwhile you can learn <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">a lot of useful ideas</span> from the below game of <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GM Dlugy</b> against legendary <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Garry Kasparov</b> in the World Blitz Championship.</span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Maxim Dlugy – Garry Kasparov<img alt="Dlugy-Kasparov" class="aligncenter wp-image-9625" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Dlugy-Kasparov.jpg" height="417" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="417" />White to move</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How would you play here as White against Garry Kasparov?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If your initial thought is “<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I would resign immediately”</span></b></i>, please, collect yourself and come up with a move. <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After that you can observe this highly instructive game with my commentaries here: <a href="http://goo.gl/vqxQLx" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Webinar Dlugy"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">P.S</span>.</b> Based on the past experience I have to make this remark. When I’ve conducted my webinar last Saturday, I’ve stated clearly that, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the ONLY way to get a recording of the webinar is to register for the webinar</b>.</span> Then, no matter if you attend the live webinar or not – you will receive its recording.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nevertheless, I keep receiving messages from students saying:<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Oh I’ve missed the webinar, how can I receive its recording?”</i> </span></b>There’s NO way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you missed past webinars, try at least not to miss the upcoming one <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-51299539022913591282014-09-27T00:25:00.000-07:002014-09-27T00:25:06.867-07:00Advantage Conversion and Quick Winning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have received a couple of interesting <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">games and questions from the STUDENTS</span></strong></span>during the last several days. We’ll be analyzing your questions tomorrow, on my webinar <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“How to Win a Won Game?”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to that, of course I’ll share with you some practical recommendations from my coaching & playing experience. All in all, I’m sure on Saturday webinar you’ll learn a lot of useful ideas, and we’ll certainly have fun as well <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After I’ve published info about this webinar a few days ago – we got thousands of people trying to register. Frankly, we did not expect such a massive audience. The web-page went down due to high traffic, and some of the students were unable to sign up. I’m really sorry about that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While observing the games you’ve sent me, I’ve noticed that pretty often students <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">made mistakes</span><span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">in time trouble</span>.</span></strong> Indeed, it’s easy to spoil even a very advantageous position when you have to play every move within a few seconds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This brings us to <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">2 main questions</span>:</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. </b>How to find proper moves QUICKLY (preventing time troubles)?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. </b>What should you do if you got into time trouble already (or if you play a blitz game)?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let me remind you that I’ve developed a special mini-course dedicated to this topic –<span style="color: #ff6600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Quick Success in Chess”</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0rlkLFzyc" target="_blank">QUICK SUCCESS IN CHESS </a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While playing a chess game, quite often you can obtain <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a SUPERIOR position.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After that you face the famous question in chess: <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“How to win a won game?”<img alt="question-mark-300x300" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9255" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/question-mark-300x300.jpg" height="300" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="300" /><span id="more-9250" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is not as simple as it seems. An opponent gets tricky and tries to mix the things up. Often you have to play precise moves under time pressure. Then you can spoil a good game, <span style="color: #ff6600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">not getting a well-deserved win.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course you can blame <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“that lucky guy”</i> </span></b>(your opponent) for that, or grieve for<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“an oversight in time trouble”</i></b>.</span> That’s what most players do in such cases <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">However, obviously there’s a better option. You can learn appropriate techniques and <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">always finish your opponents off!</b></span> Look at “chess killers” like Topalov, Carlsen, Adams etc. In a worse position, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">nobody </span></b>can escape from them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If your wish to acquire those skills of “a chess killer”<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">– you are welcome to join my webinar on Saturday 27 September</b></span> (4p.m., BST). You can get all the details and sign up for the webinar here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The webinar will be conducted personally by me – GM Igor Smirnov. Most likely you know me pretty well, but if not – check this <a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.in/p/about.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="GM Smirnov Igor">LINK</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can get <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a FREE ticket</b> for GM Smirnov’s webinar by <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">spreading the word</span> about it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve thought about what I can do for such students and have come up with a good idea! <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">H</b></span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">elp us spread the word about Remote Chess Academy, and <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">you’ll get your ticket FOR FREE</span>.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now let’s check how you should NOT play in won positions <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Caruana – Nakamura</b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Caruana-Nakamura" class="aligncenter wp-image-9257" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Caruana-Nakamura.jpg" height="400" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="400" />White’s turn</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">White is a pawn up and is pressuring Black’s position hardly. It’s almost winning.<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How to turn that “almost winning” into a real full score?</i></b></span> What would you play as White?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Actually there are even a few ways for a quick win. You might be surprised to know that Caruana (rated 2801!) – managed to drew it!</span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-17514851798586509252014-09-19T05:30:00.002-07:002014-09-19T05:32:42.754-07:00Opening Traps & A New Course in Spanish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">NOW it’s <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the last chance</span></b> to sign yourself up for the upcoming webinar<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Chess Opening Disasters and Traps” (Sunday, 21 September).</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the moves <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1.e4-e5 2.Nf3-Nc6 3.Bc4,</b> Black – seeking simplification – can blunder away a pawn with <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3…Nd4</b>. What would be your initial impulse with White?</span></div>
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<img alt="Pos1" class="aligncenter wp-image-9074" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pos1.png" height="300" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="300" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How would you play here as White?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although this trap is pretty simple, you can’t imagine <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">how often White players fall right into it!</span> According to my database, 4.Ne5 is the 2<sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">nd</sup> most popular choice! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />198 Players played 4.Nd4, while 155 overly optimistic guys captured the pawn with 4.Ne5.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4.Ne5-Qg5</b> White realizes what’s wrong, but now it’s too late…</span></div>
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<img alt="Pos2" class="aligncenter wp-image-9075" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pos2.png" height="300" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="300" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Surprisingly, White is lost!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will not analyze the position thoroughly – it’s pretty simple and you can work out the details yourself. The most natural game continuation is <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5.Nf7-Qg2 6.Rf1-Qe4 7.Be2-Nf3#</b></span></div>
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<img alt="Pos3" class="aligncenter wp-image-9076" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pos3.png" height="300" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="300" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">White was mated in 7 moves! </i> <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Being a chess coach, I must teach students to play properly and avoid tricky lines. However, I do agree that <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">some opening traps work very well</b></span>, especially in <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">blitz games</span> and/or <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">against club players</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can learn another nice example of an opening catastrophe from a free video lesson, <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Chess Opening Disasters”,</b></span> prepared by our guest coach <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IM Alex Kundin</b>:<a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.com/2014/09/chess-opening-disasters-and-traps.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Chess Opening Disasters"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you wish to get some nice victories right at the starting phase of a game, you may <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">join our Sunday’s webinar</span>:</span> <a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.com/2014/09/chess-opening-disasters-and-traps.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Our Sunday’s webinar “Chess Opening Disasters”"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a></span></div>
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There’s good news for Spanish-speaking students. The course, <span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“An Endgame Expert”,</span> is now available<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">in Spanish language</span>:</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m not sure why, but very often I receive messages from <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Spanish-speaking students</b>, who ask me to provide the courses into their mother tongue. Hence, I’m glad to present this new translation for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By the way, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">three other courses </span>have been translated to SPANISH already:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Each additional language pack for a course that you already own is only $7. For example, if you own an English version of the course, “<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Grandmaster’s Secrets</b>”, you can get its Spanish version for just $7. Get your Language Pack here: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=241" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Language Pack"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/product/language-pack/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></a>If you don’t even have an English version of the course, “<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">An Endgame Expert</b>“, this might be a good time to study it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/1511-9.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="An endgame expert"><span style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><< Get the Course in ENGLISH Now >></span></a></span></h2>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With this one course, you’ll learn everything you need to become an expert in endgames.</span> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I do receive messages from students all the time. In the past I used to publish them regularly, but then I stopped because there were simply too many of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Still, it might be interesting for you to know about the experiences of other students. Hence, I’ll provide a few right here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I bought my first course back in November, and I was immediately hooked. I own dozens of chess books, read dozens more, and I learned more in that one course than all of them combined…</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> This week I beat an opponent 250 rating points higher than me, and in doing so I achieved my highest online rating ever. Before my rating was padded from playing lots of weaker competition; now I’m doing it against players I never thought I’d consistently beat!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Johnathan Petit</b></i></span></div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have purchased and trained every course and I am now enjoying the benefit of no-nonse chess knowledge. So far I have only lost a single serious game last year and none this year, so my rating will raise as I continue to win. The courses by Igor Smirnov is by far my best investment.</span></i></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Richard</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello sir,</span></i></div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am a chess player from India rated 2250.</span></i></div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have studied your Dvd’s and improved a lot in all stages of the game. Last time after studying Endgame Expert, I improved a lot and won some games too in serious tournaments.</span></i></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Praneeth Surya, India</span></i></b></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Webinar</b> “<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chess Opening Disasters and Traps</b>”: <a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.com/2014/09/chess-opening-disasters-and-traps.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Chess Opening Disasters"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a></span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Free video lesson</b> “<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chess Opening Disasters</b>”: <a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.in/2014/09/chess-opening-disasters-and-traps.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Chess Opening Disasters"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a></span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/star.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“An Endgame Expert”</b> in <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">English</b>: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/1511-9.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="An endgame expert"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Our guest coach </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">IM Alex Kundin</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> has prepared a new lesson for you: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #003300; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Disaster in the Opening”</span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">. You’ll learn useful opening concepts while enjoying a really nice attacking game!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Watch the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjJha8p-CXY" target="_blank">here</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have you enjoyed the final position of the game from the video? It’s really cool, doesn’t it? <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Have YOU ever experienced huge troubles right in an opening?<span id="more-8951" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></b> That’s quite normal actually, even strong players fall into opening traps from time to time. Club players fall apart in an opening on a regular basis <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In this lesson you’ve observed 1 interesting example of an opening catastrophe. If you wish to train and improve <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">your practical skills</span> in this area, you are welcome to join Alex Kundin’s webinar <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Chess Opening Disasters and Traps”</b></span>on Sunday, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">21 September at 4pm BST</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In this training session you will improve your opening skills, preventing opening disasters in your games. In addition to that, Alex will reveal the most effective<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">opening traps</span></span> beginners always fall for!</span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">IM Alex Kundin</span></b></h4>
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90 minutes.</span></h4>
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limited to 100.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=234" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Premium">Premium ticket</a> = $10. <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(note: only premium tickets are available for this event)</i></span></h4>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">*The registration will be closed 2 hours before the webinar.</i></b></span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is “a webinar”?</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During a webinar, you have communication with a coach in live mode. A coach tells you the tasks, while you can ask your questions. <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is real TRAINING, which develops your SKILLS</b></span></i>. Hence, you’ll be able to improve your chess strength properly during the webinar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A video lesson or a text article provides some information to you. Any chess player can find tons of information about a chess game on the Internet. So what? Has this overabundance of content made you a strong player? Probably not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Information does not affect your play. Only a new SKILL can do so.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Chess Opening Disasters and Traps”</span></h2>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #339966; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In this webinar you’ll train the following skills:</span></b></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/check.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How to handle opening complications?</span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/check.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How to eliminate unnecessary risk from your play?</span></li>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Host: IM Alex Kundin<img alt="Kundin" class="size-full wp-image-8982 alignright" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Kundin.jpeg" height="260" style="border: none; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; padding: 0px;" width="174" /></span></b></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/asterisk.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Former Europe youth champion.</span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/asterisk.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An experienced chess coach who has prepared a lot of strong players all around the world.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can learn free Kundin’s lesson about “Disasters in the Opening” here: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/chess-opening-disasters/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Blog post">LINK</a> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You may send 1-3 of your games related to the webinar’s topic. We guarantee that at least 1 your game will be analysed:</span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Or</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You will receive a pgn file with comments for your game after the webinar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="snzpicon" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/icons/alert.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />Please, note that your games Unrelated to the webinar’s topic, may be ignored.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">YOUR QUESTIONS</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You are welcome to submit your ANY questions. You may send your questions related to the webinar’s topic, or any other questions you have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please, note that the time of the webinar is limited. We can’t answer all students’ questions. Hence, we will select the questions based on:</span></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/lock.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Additionally, we’ll pick the most popular questions amongst the students.</span></li>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After you have registered for the webinar, you’ll be given the chance to submit your games and questions.</span></b></div>
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Submit your games</span></h4>
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<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=234" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Premium"><span style="font-family: inherit;">$10 USD</span></a></h3>
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By <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">International Master Zoran Ilic</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Chess-Specialist<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Remote Chess Academy</div>
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The trend of undertaking an early wing attack with g2–g4 started back to the beginning of 1990s. Than, the enterprising GMs <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shabalov</strong> and <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shirov</strong> introduced this idea in the<span id="more-8464" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Semi-Slav line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c3 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4!?.</strong></div>
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Previously Black had to meet the aggressive g2–g4 idea mainly in various Sicilian systems.</div>
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In the years that followed, the early advance of the <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">g-pawn</span> has become a common pattern in many openings including classics Queen’s Gambit and Philidor. <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With the risk to spoil the integrity of the pawn structure White plays violent g2–g4 with the aim to disturb the natural development flow of Black’s pieces</span>. The dynamic g4 (g5) does contribute to the fight for the centre dislodging a Black knight from f6. Only by active measures can Black hope to demonstrate serious consequences of White’s aggressive idea.</div>
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Usually it means a proper reaction in the center, according the old saying that “<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Premature flank attack should be refuted by a thrust in the center</span>“. But, g2–g4 is an dangerous idea and responding it correctly in practice is not easy at all. It demands full alertness and good preparation. If Black only simply follows the mentioned rule, without specific preparation, he could not hope to achieve promising positions as has been proved many times.</div>
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Two latest, very high level games, from just finished French Championship and Tromzo Olympiad, confirm convincingly this statement. The dangerous g2–g4 idea was successfully implemented versus Bogo and Nimzo Indian, two openings which enjoy quite reliable reputation.</div>
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<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bacrot,E (2720) – Sokolov,And1 (2556)</strong></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />89th ch-FRA 2014 Nimes FRA (4), 20.08.2014</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2 c5 </b>The so-called ViKoNi variation of Bogo Indian, named after Vitolinsh, Kortchnoi and Nikolic who were its first practitioners.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5.Bxb4 cxb4 </b>Black leaves his opponent a pawn majority in the centre and concentrates his play on the dark squares, the so-called dark-square strategy.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6.Nbd2 0–0 7.e3 </b>More common is to play the fianchetto 7.g3, but GM Bacro has another more ambitios idea in his mind…</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7…b6 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.Qc2 d6 10.g4!? </b></div>
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In my youth I was learnt that you should only initiate a flank attack if the center is stable and secure. However, this rule, as well as several others firmly established chess dogmas, have been challenged in computer era.</div>
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In a number of openings, White has started pushing the <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">g-pawn</span> very early and with the central tension still intact. Natural continuations are 10.0-0 or 10.Ne4. In my databases I found only one game when 10.g4 was played in this kind of Bogo Indian. And it was again Bacro…</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10…g6 </b>10…h6? would just pouring gasoline onto the fire, while 10…Nxg4 was played in the first game mentioned above when Black (experienced GM) was crushed quickly after 11.Bxh7+ Kh8</div>
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Better try was <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">13…Nd7! </i>when one possible line could be <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">14.dxe6 Nde5 15.Nxe5 Nxe5 16.Bxf5 Qf6 17.e4 Bxe4 18.Qxe4 Qxf5) </i>14.Bxf5 Nh6 15.Be6 with decesive threat Ng5 15…Qf6</div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(15…Nd7 </i>is now too late as after<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">16.Ng5 Nf6 17.Ndf3 </i>following with Nh4 and White is unable to defend the whole complex of light squared weaknesses around his king.<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">)</i></div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></i>16.cxd5 Na6 17.Rg6 Qe7 18.Rg3 b3 19.axb3 Nb4 20.Qe4 a5 21.Ng5 g6 22.Qxg6 Rf6 23.Nf7+ 1–0 <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(23) Bacrot,E (2705)-Farago,I (2472) Deizisau 2013</strong></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">11.h4 </b>Consistently played. For sure, it’s not at all the the kind of position you hope and like to meet when playing a solid opening like the Bogo Indian. Instead of having complicated strategical battle to create a stronghold for a knight on c5 (the main feature of the line), Black is challenged to response a direct king side attack.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">11…Nxg4 </b>There is no better option than to accept the sacrificed pawn. Comparing the position with the previous example, the interpolated moves …g7–g6 (closing the b1–h7 diagonal) and h2–h4 seems to be in Black’s favour.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">12.h5 </b>Following the basic idea. It is an imperative to open h-file.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">12…f5! </b>Being a pawn up Black wants to create a kind of stonewall that protects his king. He achieved his main defensive task – to close the b1–h7 diagonal. It seems that he has fair defensive chances.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">13.hxg6 hxg6 14.Ke2 </b>Obviously White has to involve another rook to support his attack. But, since the f2 pawn is hanging, in case of 14…0–0–0, White’s King has to stay in the centre. Will it be the target for potential counter play?</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">14…Qf6 </b>Computer suggests the following defensive set-up: 14…Nd7 15.Rh3 Rf7 16.Rah1 Nf8 with a complex game. Black chooses another plan – instead of giving defensive role to his knight he developed it on c6 aiming to strengthen pressure on White’s center and support its opening. In spite, that his choice have a drawbacks of closing his light squared bishop and provoking a possible d4–d5 I regard both plans to be acceptable.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">15.Rh4 Nc6 16.Rah1 </b>From now on, both sides have to evaluate the possible transformation of the position in case of trading two rooks for the queen after Rh8+. Of course, White don’t need to hurry with that trading, but it is a potential asset which could be used in an appropriate moment.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">16…Rae8 </b></div>
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So far, both sides completed their development.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">17.Qa4! </b>Obviously, White is not able to strengthen his direct king side attack. Moreover, as Black concentrated his forces towards his king, he has to cope with Black’s idea of opening central lines.</div>
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White can’t wait and in order to confuse Black’s plan he found right idea – to switch his activities across the weakened queen side. His chance is to create an additional weakness in Black’s camp there.</div>
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White is combining play on two wings (the direct threat is 18.d5). An instructive example for two principles: <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">PLAYING ON TWO WINGS and narrow related TWO WEAKNESSES PRINCIPLE</span></strong>. It sounds illogical, but to win on the King side, White must play on the Queen side. When most of the action is taking place on one part of the board, it’s easy to forget that the rest of the board exists. <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">REMEMBER: The whole board is a battlefield!</span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">17…Re7 </b>In case of 17…a6 an interesting line is 18.a3 bxa3 19.Qxa3 e5 20.Qb3 Rf7<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(20…e4 21.c5+ Rf7 22.Rh8+ </i>and White wins<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">) </i>21.Rh8+ Qxh8 22.Rxh8+ Kxh8 23.Ng5 Rd7 24.d5 Ne7 25.Qxb6 with almost decisive advantage for White</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">18.R1h3 </b>A useful prophylactic move but the direct approach 18.d5 also deserved attention. In that case a pretty forcing line would have been 18…exd5 19.cxd5 Nce5 20.Nxe5 Nxe5 21.Rh8+ Qxh8 22.Rxh8+ Kxh8 23.Qxa7 and White’s chances are preferable.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">18…e5? </b>Black didn’t resist to play this tempting move. The idea is correct but the TIMING wrong! One should always invest a considerable time when the issue of opening position arises. Black miscalculated the consequences of opening position.</div>
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After the patient 18…Ba8 the outcome of the game remains unpredictable.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">19.d5 </b>The game reached the moment when exact calculation is needed.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">19…Nd4+ </b>Perhaps Black relied his hopes on this blow but it doesn’t work. Anyway, alternatives are unsatisfactory too:</div>
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19…e4 20.dxc6 exf3+ 21.Ke1 Bc8 22.Rh8+ Qxh8 23.Rxh8+ Kxh8 24.Qxb4 Rf6 25.Nxf3±; 19…Nd8 20.Ng5! Qxg5 <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(20…e4 21.Bxe4 fxe4 22.Ngxe4+–) </i>21.Rh8+ Kg7 22.R3h7+ Kf6 23.Rxf8++–</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">20.exd4 e4 21.Kf1 exd3 </b>In case of 21…a5 22.Qb5 exd3 23.Qxb6+– Black position is hopeless as well.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">22.Qxa7 </b>Black queen side has been demolished and his position went down rather quickly. Here we see the importance of suggested prophylactic 18…Ba8 move (Re7 protects a7 pawn).</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">22…b5 </b>An desperate attempt to activate Bb7.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">23.c5 Ra8 </b>Or 23…Bxd5 24.Rh8+ Kf7 25.R3h7+ Ke6 26.Qb6+–</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">24.Qb6 </b>Black has many weaknesses and his pieces are uncoordinated without chances to create counter play.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">24…dxc5 25.d6 Rd7 26.Qxb5 Rf7 27.Qc4 </b>27.Ng5 or; 27.Rh8+ also wins</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">27…b3 28.a3 </b>Keep it simple!</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">28…Raf8 29.d7 Qe7 30.Rh8+ Kg7 31.R3h7+ <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1–0</b></b></div>
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The final position deserves diagram. An outstanding creative achievement by GM Bacro. The uncompromising battle between wings and central strategy is won by later. Let’s sum up the key points we learnt though this highly instructive game:</div>
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<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2743) – Ivanisevic,Ivan (2613)</strong></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />41st Olympiad Tromso 2014 Open Tromsø¸ (5), 06.08.2014</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 Nc6 </b>The so-called Zurich variation, not the most popular against 4.Qc2, but a solid choice if Black wants to avoid highly developed theoretical lines. Recommended to players looking for complicated strategical battle, wishing to test the positional understanding of the opponent.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5.Nf3 d6 6.g4!? </b></div>
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No, this is not a “finger fehler” but an creative attempt to imbalance position in an early stage and force opponent to be on his own as of move 6th. Since Black has relatively good control in the center, this attack should not be too dangerous, but meeting it over the board may be unpleasant without previous preparation.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6…e5 </b>Black decided to follow the main idea of the whole line. It is difficult to criticize his decision (the wing attack has to be answered by central stroke), but there were alternatives: 6…d5, preparing to meet 7.g5 with …Ne4, or 6…Nxg4 7.Rg1 e5 played in Chatalbashev-Vocaturo, Deizisau 2008</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7.dxe5 dxe5 </b>If 7…Nxe5? 8.Nxe5 dxe5? 9.Qa4+ White wins a piece; 7…Nxg4!? 8.Bg5 leads to very complex game.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">8.g5 Bxc3+ </b>This forces White to double his pawns, but it is of irrelevant significance having in mind the dynamic character of the position. Additionally it enables dark squared bishop to be developed on a3–f8 diagonal. But, in case of</div>
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8…Nd7 9.a3 Bxc3+ 10.Qxc3 White position would be preferable as well.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">9.bxc3 </b>[White has to avoid 9.Qxc3 Ne4 10.Qe3 Bf5 with active play.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">9...Nd7?! </b>After this, carelessly played move, Black's position becomes critical. Transferring the knight to queen side consumes precious time and obstructs the development. Better attempt was</div>
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9...Nh5 10.Ba3 Qd7 followed by ...Qf5.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10.Ba3 </b>[#]This simple bishop move paralyzes Black position.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10…Nb6? </b>Ivanisevic lost the sense for danger completely. Now his position is exposed to crossfire with unavoidable material loses.</div>
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With 10…Na5 followed by …c7–c5 and …0–0 he could still hope to stay in the game giving quite reasonable resistance.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">11.Rd1 Bd7 12.Bh3</b></div>
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A strange position for Nimzo Indian. Inspite of the fact that Black has a perfect pawn structure he is unavoidably lost. The triumpf of dynamic over static features!</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">12…Bxh3 </b>A desperate measure.</div>
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There was no other way to free himself from the pin, for example 12…Qc8 13.Rxd7 Nxd7 14.0–0 followed by Rd1.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">13.Rxd8+ Rxd8 14.Qe4 </b>Black’s main problem is not his material deficit but incurable bad position of his king.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">14…Na4 </b>Setting up a nice but a pretty cheap trap.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">15.Qe3 </b>Not 15.Nxe5? Rd1+ 16.Kxd1 Nxc3+ wins</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">15…Rd7 16.Nd4 Bg2 17.Rg1 Kd8 18.Nf5 Be4 19.Nxg7 </b></div>
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After liquidating important g7 pawn White easily penetrated Black’position via f6–square.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">19…Bg6 20.Qh3 Nb6 21.Nh5 f5 22.gxf6 Nxc4 23.Be7+ Nxe7 24.fxe7+ Rxe7 25.Nf6 Bf7 26.Rg7 Be6 27.Qh6 Nd6 28.Rxe7 Kxe7 29.Ne4 Nxe4 30.Qg7+ <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1–0</b></b></div>
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The early <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">g2–g4</span> trend has been continuing. I hope the given examples will encourage, especially those players willing to take a risk and demonstrate their creativity, to adopt wings attack in their repertoire.</div>
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Two high level games that I presented (<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bacro – A.Sokolov</span> and <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mamedyarov – Ivnisevic</span>) clearly demonstrated the positive side of an early <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">g2–g4</span> attack. Being Black it’s easy to go astray, and if the players rated around 2600 feel uncomfortable when facing it, you can imagine the degree of effectiveness at low level.</div>
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One example cross up my mind. The game D.Poleksic – N.Radovanovic was played in recently finished Serbian Youth Championship. Notice the ELO rating difference between players, more than 400 points in Black’s favour!</div>
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<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Poleksic,Dusan (1925) – Radovanovic,Nikola (2366)</strong></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Serbian Youth Championship, 2014 Beograd (5), 20.08.2014</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 Nbd7 6.g4 0–0</b></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7.h4 c5 8.d5 a6 9.a4 Ne8 10.h5 Nc7 11.Qd3 e5 12.hxg6 hxg6 13.Qh3 f6 14.Qh7+ Kf7 15.Rh6 g5 16.Nh3 Rh8 17.Qg6+ Kf8 18.Bxg5 fxg5 19.Nxg5 Qe8 20.Qxd6+ Qe7 21.Qxe7+ Kxe7 22.d6+ Kd8 23.dxc7+ Kxc7 24.Ne6+ Kb8 25.Rxh8 Bxh8 </b>Of course, White is completely winning but having pure technique he “succeeded” to make a draw in 108 moves.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Recently I’ve been inviting different <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IMs/GMs</strong> to make lessons and webinars for you. I hope you enjoyed those lectures!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every coach has his “<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">areas of specialization</strong></span>”: some are strong in attack, others have good positional understanding etc. Therefore, while learning lessons from various teachers you can build <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">your COMPREHENSIVE chess knowledge.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">you don’t have any gaps in your chess education</span>, your results will become<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GOOD</span> and <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">STABLE</span>.<span id="more-8773" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Live webinar “Planning, Evaluation & Fortress”</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">90 minutes.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">limited to 100.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=221" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Premium">Premium ticket</a> = $10.</span></h4>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*The registration will be closed 2 hours before the webinar.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Planning, Evaluation & Fortress</span></span></h1>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In this webinar you’ll train the following skills:</span></span></strong></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/check.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The most critical middlegame concepts</span></li>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Know my host: IM Valeri Lilov</span></span></strong></div>
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<img alt="Lilovbig12" class="size-medium wp-image-8785 alignright" height="300" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Lilovbig12-253x300.jpg" style="border: none; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; padding: 0px;" width="253" /></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/asterisk.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the age of seven, Valeri was able to play blindfold chess on several boards simultaneously.</span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/asterisk.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the year of 2000, Valeri became the European Individual School Chess Champion U10</span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/asterisk.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the following years, Valeri became the national chess champion in all age groups including U10, U12, U14, U16, U18, and U20</span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/asterisk.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today, IM ValeriLilov is the proud owner of over thirty cups and medals from national and international tournaments.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Below you can learn free Lilov’s lessons and some of his nice games here:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Your</b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Games And Questions</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Students with <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=221" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Entry Fee"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">a premium ticket </span></a>may submit their own games and questions to IM Valeri Lilov.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">YOUR GAMES</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You may send 1-3 of your games related to the webinar’s topic. We guarantee that at least 1 your game will be analysed:</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">EITHER</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During the webinar;</span></span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Or</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You will receive a pgn file with comments for your game after the webinar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="snzpicon" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/icons/alert.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />Please, note that your games Unrelated to the webinar’s topic, may be ignored.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">YOUR QUESTIONS</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You are welcome to submit your ANY questions. You may send your questions related to the webinar’s topic, or any other questions you have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please, note that the time of the webinar is limited. We can’t answer all students’ questions. Hence, we will select the questions based on:</span></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/lock.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Additionally, we’ll pick the most popular questions amongst the students.</span></li>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After you have registered for the webinar, you’ll be given the chance to submit your games and questions.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Options</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Standard ticket</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Premium ticket</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Attend the webinar</span></h4>
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<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=221" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Premium"><span style="font-family: inherit;">$10 USD</span></a></h3>
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<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=221" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Premium"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Buy Now</span></a></h2>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*Only premium tickets are available for this event</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">P.S.</b><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Please, note that the seats are limited to <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">100 students</span>. The questions will be answered on “<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">first come, first served</span>” basis. If you wish to participate – please,<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">register NOW</span>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the meanwhile, if you missed any of the past Lilov’s lessons, you may check them here:</span></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/plus.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Karpov’s prophylaxis: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h82jh9EKSR4" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Kasparov's Prohpylaxis">LINK</a></span></li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/plus.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Typical mistakes: <a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.in/2014/08/typical-mistakes-im-valeri-lilov.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Typical Mistakes">LINK</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally you can enjoy a few nice positions from Valeri’s games.</span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lilov – Todorov</span></b><img alt="Lilov - Todorov" class="aligncenter wp-image-8798" height="312" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Lilov-Todorov.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="312" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">White’s turn</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">White has a clear positional advantage: he controls more space and has more active pieces. How to realize this advantage?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="snzpicon" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/icons/alert.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />Note: you’ll find the answer in the end of the article.</span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lilov – Chatalbashev</span></b><img alt="Lilov - Chaltabashev" class="aligncenter wp-image-8797" height="312" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Lilov-Chaltabashev.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="312" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">White’s turn</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">White’s f7-rook has invaded into Black’s position, but how to continue the attack?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Once you came up with your solution, please, observe the above 2 examples with my comments here: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/lilov-games/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Answers">LINK</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On Sunday you’ll be able to talk to Lilov personally during his webinar, and to know how he manages to find such great moves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please, note that in this webinar we let <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">EVERY participant to submit his/her games and questions</b></span>. Hence, if you want YOUR questions to be answered – please, sign up at earliest: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=221" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Valeri Lilov Webinar">LINK</a></span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-10207046869818989412014-09-05T23:55:00.000-07:002014-09-05T23:55:27.673-07:00How to get the Olympic chess medals?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Before we go to the main topic, let me remind you that <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">now it’s <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the last chance</span> to register for the webinar of GM Vadim Milov (former #22 in the world!)</b>. This is a unique opportunity to clarify your questions and to get hints from the world top-level player. Learn more: <a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.com/2014/09/webinar-art-of-exchange-sacrifice.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Webinar the art of exchange sacrifice"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the meanwhile you may test yourself in the following really cool position from Milov’s game.</span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pavel Smirnov – Vadim Milov</span></b><img alt="Picture 1" class="aligncenter wp-image-8698" height="395" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pic1.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="395" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Black’s turn</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Is there any way for Black to survive? Of course you should not just guess a move but to calculate the following lines as well.<span id="more-8694" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Once you came up with your decision, please, check the commented game here:<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/milovs-game/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Milov's Game">LINK</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the recent <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">World Chess Olympiad</strong></span> (in <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tromso, Norway</span>) an Indian team got bronze medal – for the 1<sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">st</sup> time in the century! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> This is especially surprising taking into account their 19<sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">th</sup> place in the starting rank, and plenty of really strong rivals.</span></div>
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<img alt="Picture 2" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8699" height="285" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pic2.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="396" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Indian Team, Olympic Award Presentation</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What are the secrets of success of the Indian team? </b></span>Luckily, we have lots of students from India. Some of the best Indian coaches work in our Remote Chess Academy as well. Hence I know the situation pretty well, and will share my findings with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the past few years the quantity of chess tournaments in India got increased. Therefore Indian players got <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">regular practice of playing against strong opponents</span>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You should strive for the same if you want to get massive chess advancement. You can’t progress while playing against equal (or weaker) opponents.</span></div>
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<img alt="Picture 3" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8700" height="249" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pic3.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="470" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Celebration of bronze medals in India, 4th September at <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Russian Cultural Center,</span>Chennai</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You may have noticed that the Indian Olympic team was mostly made of youngsters (they all are 22-25 years old). This facilitates communication between players. That’s how Sasikiran (the highest rated player in the Team) was able to give valuable hints to his less experienced teammates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Imitation is the easiest way of learning. That’s how kids learn tons of skills within a few years. In the same way <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you can hasten your chess progress a lot if you have regular communication with players at least 200 rating points ahead of you.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s not enough to spend time learning chess, your training should be proper and effective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Indian coaches have successfully implemented the teaching methods of the Russian chess school and… left the Russian team behind in the recent Olympiad! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So it’s not just a sudden lucky result in the Olympiad (as some people think); Indian chess players are getting stronger!</span></div>
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<img alt="Picture 4" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8701" height="297" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pic4.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="394" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Karthikeyan Murali (on the right) – World under-16 champion, just got his final GM norm!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By the way, Mr. Manikandaswamy (2<sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">nd</sup> person from left side on the photo) is working in our Remote Chess Academy. You should thank this great coach for some of the wonderful lessons we’ve prepared for you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Test your skills in a brilliant example from Karthikeyan’s game.</span></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Karthikeyan – Krishna</span></i></b><img alt="Picture 5" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8702" height="420" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pic5.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="420" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">White’s turn</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In this dynamic position White has a powerful way to overcome in this battle. Can you detect it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then you may check the commented game and check yourself: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/karthikeyans-game/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="karthik game">LINK</a></span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-72196891506478200052014-09-04T22:46:00.002-07:002014-09-04T22:48:04.094-07:00Webinar: The Art of Exchange Sacrifice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Your Unique Opportunity</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To take a lesson from</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GM Milov (#22 in the World!)</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today I have really GREAT news for you! <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GM Vadim Milov</span> will be conducting an online webinar for you on <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sunday, September 7<sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">th</sup></span>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Milov (rated 2705 at peak)</span> is the TOP-level player, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">who defeated</span> V. Anand, J. Polgar, V. Korchnoi</b> – just to name a few <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span id="more-8516" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are some things in chess that are very hard to learn on your own, for example <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">positional understanding</span> and <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">an endgame play</span>. It’s a lot easier to develop such skills while communicating with an expert player (who mastered those skills already).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vadim Milov</b> is exactly this type of a chess expert. In my teens I’ve been replaying his games to understand how he <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">outplays strong GMs</b>. Despite of my very busy schedule, this Sunday I’ll definitely attend Milov’s webinar myself. This is a too tempting opportunity to miss it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can get all the details about this event, and then sign yourself into the webinar via the link below.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Live Webinar<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“The Art of Exchange Sacrifice”<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />by GM Vadim Milov</span></h1>
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Live webinar “The Art of Exchange Sacrifice”</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=211" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Standard">Standard ticket</a> = $10, <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=212" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Premium">Premium ticket</a> = $20.</span></h4>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The Art of Exchange Sacrifice</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nowadays it’s NOT enough to follow the basic chess rules like “fight for the centre”, “occupy weak squares” etc… Your opponent is well-aware of these fundamentals just as well as you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, how can you overcome your opponents? You must have some <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">EXTRA skills</span>”</b>that most of the other players do NOT possess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of such “secret weapons” is <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">an exchange sacrifice </span></b>(sacrifice of a rook for an opponent’s bishop or knight).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of the players are aware about this technique, BUT can never use it in their own games. On the contrary, some great players like <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aronian, Topalov, Kramnik</span>and others have been using <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“an exchange sacrifice” REPEATEDLY</span> to defeat the strongest rivals!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">GM Vadim Milov will show you <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">how YOU can implement this powerful technique into your games.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Apart from that, you’ll improve your overall positional understanding, evaluation and planning skills. Check out Milov’s introductory lesson “The Art of Exchange Sacrifice”:</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Host: GM Vadim Milov</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Vadim Milov was born in Ufa (Soviet Union) 1972 and in 1992 moved to Israel, where he scored his first great successes. He later settled in Switzerland. The strong grandmaster, who crossed the 2700 Elo barrier in 2008, has played very little chess since then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1) </b></span>During the past months we’ve been working on the new <span style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">online training platform</span></b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">.</span> I will not share all the details now, but it’s going to be really cool <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It will help you get much more effective training than the other players do, and therefore to beat them later on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a great interactive form of training. You can <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">follow the thinking process of top GMs and coaches in a live mode</span>. You can submit your games and questions – and get them answered. Thus you not just “watch a lesson”, but <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">develop your practical skills</b>- on the fly!</span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-782923651240350232014-08-28T23:14:00.002-07:002014-08-28T23:14:30.648-07:00Smirnov's Interview<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Before the interview, let me remind you this is the last chance if you want to join<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>IM Attila Turzo’s <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WEBINAR</span></b> (<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">31st August at 4 p.m BST London Time</b></span>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></i>If you haven’t read the blog post about this webinar, you must read it here : <a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.com/2014/08/webinar-minority-attack-im-attila-turzo.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">LINK</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A few days ago, GM Igor Smirnov (or should I say “I”?) was interviewed by the team from « October Obsession>>, where I spoke about chess coaching, psychology, my own experiences as a chess player and about chess in general.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> This interview was really funny; that’s why I’ve decided to upload it for you today! I hope you’ll enjoy it and that it will be useful for you to hear about my experiences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> For your convenience, I’ve divided it into two parts.</span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-66751493457323855172014-08-27T21:41:00.000-07:002014-08-28T22:11:36.192-07:00Webinar : Minority Attack Intro - 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As you’ve seen in our previous article (you can read it <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.in/2014/08/webinar-minority-attack-im-attila-turzo.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">HERE</a></b>), IM Attila Turzo will conduct <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">a live webinar</span> </b>on <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sunday 31 August at 4p.m BST (London Time)</span></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you’re register yet you can join his webinar by clicking on the button below :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He was one of the first coaches to start to teach online 13 years ago, he was Hungarian Junior champion and became International Master at age 18 and also 6 times Hungarian team champion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For the occasion he prepared a new <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FREE</span></b> video for you :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you have enjoyed it, you’ll probably enjoy his live webinar : <span id="more-8420" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: green; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Instead of lasting 1 hr,the duration of the lesson has been increased to 1.5 hrs. Based on the attendee’s feedback, we have made this huge change in the duration.</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Webinar will have three phases: </b></span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Attila Turzo’s Lecture, </i></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Analysing students’ games and </i></b><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Live discussion with International Master Attila Turzo</b></i></span></li>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-25346440183468752262014-08-26T22:06:00.000-07:002014-08-26T22:06:33.742-07:00Webinar : “The Minority Attack” - IM Attila Turzo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today I have some good news for you. International Master Attila Turzo will conduct <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">a live Webinar</span> <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The Minority Attack” </span></b>on Sunday, 31 August 2014. at 4PM BST London Time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can register by clicking on the link below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Attila Turzo made an <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Intro video</b></span>, then you have the opportunity to discover his work before registering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">International Master Attila Turzo the very first ever to start giving online chess lessons in the history of online chess lessons, he has over 13 years of experience and counting in online chess coaching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Attila Turzo will explain the deep strategic plan involved in approaching the Minority Attack, from the very basic level to advanced techniques and ideas.Moreover, not only ideas – he will also introduce some of his novelties. Furthermore, he will discuss many transformations to these positions, like from the Queen’s Gambit Declined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a class="snzp undefined no" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #0a6db2; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" class="snzpicon" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/icons/bookmark.png" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></a><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Students can send their games regarding the Minority Attack on a first come, first served basis for analysis.</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a class="snzp undefined no" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" class="snzpicon" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/icons/bookmark.png" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></a></span>Instead of lasting 1 hr,the duration of the lesson has been increased to 1.5 hrs. Based on the attendee’s feedback, we have made this huge change in the duration.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/icons/bookmark.png" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> </span></a>Webinar will have three phases:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3.</b> <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Live discussion with International Master Attila Turzo</b></i></span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-68451712489311778592014-08-21T08:04:00.002-07:002014-08-21T08:04:56.767-07:00Smirnov's Simul<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Recently there was “a sportsman’s day” in Russia. I was invited to give a simul in the central park of the city.</span></div>
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<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/DSCF0785.jpg" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="DSCF0785" class="alignnone wp-image-8299" height="361" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/DSCF0785-1024x768.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="482" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The most talented young players were given a chance to test their skills against a Grandmaster. I played a few interesting games that I’d like to share with you today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">NOTE: I’m playing White in all of these games.<span id="more-8298" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Game #1</span></b></span></div>
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<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul1.jpg" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Smirnov-simul1" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8304" height="300" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul1-300x300.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">White’s turn</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">White has a dominating position and has several promising continuations. What is the most powerful way to end the game?</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">PLEASE, THINK ABOUT THE POSITION AND MAKE YOUR CHOICE. AFTER THAT YOU MAY CONTINUE READING.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course, White can grab the pawn 1.Qb7; however, there’s a much easier way for a win.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember this: the f7 square is the weakest point in Black’s position. White can take advantage of it in different opening lines.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That said, White can also play </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1.Bc4-Rf8, 2.Rh8!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Game #1</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul11.jpg" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Smirnov-simul11" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8310" height="300" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul11-300x300.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No matter what Black plays, White will continue with Qf7 on the next move. This wins the game immediately.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Game #2</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">White’s turn</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">White is more active, but Black is a pawn up and has built defensive fortifications. Is there any way for White to break through?</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of this article, you’ll find a link to the solutions for all of the examples.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Game #3</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul2.jpg" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Smirnov-simul2" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8305" height="300" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul2-300x300.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">White’s turn</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a funny example. This might be the shortest game I’ve ever played.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Obviously White is winning. Nevertheless, when you give a simul and have A LOT of games to play – you really need to beat weak opponents quickly. Then you’ll be able to focus on the games against tough rivals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So,</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> what is the quickest way for a victory?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below is me, thinking about it. Please think about that yourself, too, and then check the solution below.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The initial impulse is to capture Black’s bishop somehow (1.fe or 1.Ne7). However, White can deliver a smothered mate: </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1.fg-Rg8, 2.Nf6#</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Game #3</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul42.jpg" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Smirnov-simul42" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8311" height="300" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul42-300x300.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The previous example was simple. Now let’s test your skills in a much more complex position.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Game #4</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul5.jpg" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Smirnov-simul5" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8308" height="300" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul5-300x300.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Black’s turn</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When I played my last move </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1.Rd7</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, honestly, I thought that Black should resign. White is attacking Black’s king side pawns, and if Black protects them somehow (1…Kf6, for instance) – White continues 2.Rb7 getting two connected passed pawns on the queen side.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Do you think Black actually resigned? Not at all! He found a sudden way “to stay in the game”. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Can you find Black’s defensive idea?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below is the photo of me, playing against this really persistent opponent.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/P1040258.jpg" style="color: #0a6db2; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="P1040258" class="wp-image-8302 aligncenter" height="281" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/P1040258-1024x768.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="375" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Surprisingly, this was the longest game in the simul!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of this article, you’ll find a link to the solutions for all of the examples.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was really impressed by some of the participants. In the following game, my opponent has set up a REALLY tricky snare!</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Game #5</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul6.jpg" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Smirnov-simul6" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8309" height="300" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul6-300x300.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">White’s turn</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It seems that White can win easily: 1.Bb5 (installing a pin) -Bb7, 2.Qc3</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Black is losing his c6-knight and should resign, shouldn’t he?</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Game #5</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul63.jpg" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Smirnov-simul63" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8313" height="300" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov-simul63-300x300.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Black’s turn</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Can you find any way for Black to escape?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/P1040247.jpg" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="P1040247" class="alignnone wp-image-8301" height="309" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/P1040247-1024x768.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="413" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This boy almost caught me in a REALLY tricky snare!</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the above diagram, Black has a shocking move 2…Nd4! – getting a huge advantage!</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Game #5</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can download all the games from this article here: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Smirnov_simul.zip" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Smirnov_simul</a></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Note: If you don’t know how to open *.pgn files – please read this FAQ: <a href="https://chessteacher.zendesk.com/entries/21634964-How-to-open-pgn-files-" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LINK</a></i><span style="color: #00b050; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you are curious about the final result of the simul, there was one draw, while I managed to win the other games.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Perhaps you’ve heard about a Russian chess school. Let me reveal some of its secrets </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The cute female on the right (who has just presented me the trophy) is president of a city chess club! </i></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To conclude, I have a good newss for you : We’ll open our own <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ONLINE PLATFORM </span></strong>soon !!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It will offer <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">many options</strong></span> like :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The platform will be ready till September and i’ll let you know it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have also a second good news : A new <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WEBINAR</span></strong> will be conducted the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">31 August</span></strong>! So be careful <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As announced in the <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">previous blog post</strong></span>, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IM</span></strong> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Valeri LILOV</span> </strong>will organise a live <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WEBINAR</span></strong> this <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">S</span><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">unday, 17 August at 4 p.m. (16:00)</span></strong></span></span></span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> BST</span> </strong></span>(London time – you can check it here: </span></span><a href="http://24timezones.com/world_directory/current_london_time.php" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_top"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK)</span></a><span style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Previously, we made a mistake about the time – we apologies for that.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To mark the occasion, IM Valeri Lilov has made a special free video for you on the subject of « Typical Mistakes », which he will use in detail in his Webinar. All players at any level make mistakes, even the top players, as we are all human. That’s why, in this special lesson, IM Lilov will show you what the typical mistakes committed by the most players are. It will help you to avoid these in your games and to see when your opponent is making a mistake.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Have you enjoyed this video? Then you’ll probably enjoy the live </span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Webinar,<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Typical Mistakes in Practical Middlegame and Endings”.</span></strong></span></span></span></span></div>
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To end this article I would like to speak about the latest World chess event. “41st World Chess Olympiad 2014″ has just finished in Norway (Tromso). The winners are:</div>
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Amongst women the winners are: <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">R</span><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ussia, China, Ukraine.</span></strong></div>
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We do congratulate all the winner countries with this great achievement!</div>
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I’d like to specially congratulate the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">INDIAN</span></strong> team, who was 19 in the team-starting rank, but managed to get bronze medals! We have lots of students from India, and some of the Indian chess academies use our materials for training their students. So I’m pretty sure that chess development in India will keep going, bringing lots of new strong players into the chess world. Please, accept my congratulations!</div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-24700094483024933762014-08-13T08:45:00.000-07:002014-08-13T08:45:06.978-07:00Najdorf with 6.Bc4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As noticed previously on the RCA social media pages, a <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">NEW GUEST LESSON</span></span></strong> is now ready for <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dvdbox1-176x300.png" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="dvdbox1-176x300" class=" wp-image-8128 alignleft" height="243" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dvdbox1-176x300.png" style="border: none; float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" width="142" /></a>you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This article was written by a young IM (18 y.o.) from Cannes (France) named <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gary GIROYAN</span></strong>. He was French youth champion many times, European Union champion and always in the top places at the European and World Championships.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His article is about the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Najdorf with 6.Bc4. </span> </strong>That’s a very interesting variation for White which forces Black to be very precise during the opening. In this lesson, Gary will tell you his secrets in this variation which he really enjoys.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span id="more-8074" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today, we are going to see a dangerous variation of the Najdorf Sicilian: 6.Bc4. It’s a tricky variation and Black has to pay attention if he doesn’t want to lose quickly.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There are two main ways for Black to play here, with 7…b5 or 7…Nbd7.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let’s begin with </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7…b5</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, which is the more current move.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">8.Bg5 !?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course, the simple 8.0-0 followed by Qf3, Qg3, Bh6, etc. is correct and leads to an equal position. But Bg5 is more surprising and can be a good weapon against an opponent who isn’t prepared for it, even though there are some issues in this line and it must be used only for a game or two if your rating is above 2,000.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">…Be7, 9.Qf3 …Qc7, 10.Bxf6 !?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have got to confess that I used to play this variation a lot and won a lot of easy games.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">…Bxf6, 11.0-0-0 …0-0</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“11…Bb7?”, which seemed normal, is punished by 12.Ndxb5 ! …axb5, 13.Nxb5 …Qc6, 14.Nxd6+ …Ke7, 15.Qg3 ! +-. cf. Volokitin-Harikrishna, Cap D’Agde 2006.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">12.e5 !</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And here the game begins.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">12…Bxe5 !</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not so easy to find: a lot of people have made the mistake of “12…dxe5?”, which is punished by the simple Nxe6 and Qxa8. You can check for yourself if you want to, but this position is winning for White.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">13.Qxa8</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">13…Bxd4 !</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The only move. If Black doesn’t play this way, the game is over. However, while it may seem easy to play behind a computer screen, during the game it’s not the same. A lot of Grandmasters have gone wrong before – ask our friend</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Harikrishna” </b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">who </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">lost two times in this variation</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> against “</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Volokitin”</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">14.Rxd4 …Nc6, 15.Rd2 ! …Bb7, 16.Nxb5 ! … axb5, 17.Qa3</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is not easy, but White still has still a material advantage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">…b4, 18.Qa4 …Qb6 ! – </b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">only move</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, 19.Bc4 !</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is a complicated position, but anyway it plays and White is totally ok.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">19…Na5 ?!, </b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">like Grandmaster </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Ibrahimov” </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">played against “</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bologan”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">20.Bb5 ! += </b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">better than the incorrect Qb5?! played in the game.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Anyway, this position is </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">still unclear</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, but Black has to be prepared for this, or he is going to have, at least,</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> one hour or less</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now, let’s see </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7…Nbd7</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">8.f4</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">8.Bg5 is also possible, but this is not as strong as it would be after 7…b5 and White would have a lot of issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">8…Ndc5, 9. 0-0 9…Be7</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If Black takes the e4 pawn, he is going to suffer a lot. 10.f5 ! ..e5, 11.Qh5 … d5, 12.Re1 ! …Bc5, 13.Rxe4…Bxd4+, 14.Rxd4 …Qb6!, 15.c3! …exd4, 16.Qe2+, Kf8, 17.Qe5 ! Qf6, 18.Qxd5 …h6 (only move, to avoid the threat of Bg5) Bf4 – and White has a very dangerous position.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">10.e5 !</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whatever variation Black plays, you are going to play with e4-e5 !</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">…dxe5, 11 fxe5 … Nd7, 12.Qh5 …Nf6 !</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Qd1, White has a draw. After 12…0-0 ?!, 13.Rf3 ! with a dangerous attack coming</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">13.exf6 !? … Qxd4 +, 14.Kh1</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In this position, Black is going to have an extra pawn, but it’s going to be complicated to play against White’s growing initiative.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">…gxf6 !</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">14…Bxf6 ?, 15.Bf4 ! += and after …0-0 15.Rad1 …Qb4, 16.Bd6 ! s+-</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">15.Bf4 … Nxb3</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">15…f5, 16.Qe2 ! …Rg8, 17. Rad1 … Qf6, 18.Bd5 ! followed by Bf3 and Black can’t move. This is a very difficult position to play with Black, because he can’t find any ideas while White is making every piece better than it was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">16.axb3 … Bd7, 17.Rad1 …Qc5, 18.Qh6 …0-0-0, 19.Ne4 !</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here’s it’s clear that only White is playing for a win and Black will try to resist White’s offensive. Don’t forget that you’ll have 1h30 in this position, but what about Black’s clock?</span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">19…Qb5, 20.Bd6 … Bc6 !, 21.Bxe7 Rxd1, 22.Rxd1 Bxe4, 23.Qg7 Re8, 24.Qxf7</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We may think that White is winning</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, but here’s the miracle:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">… Bxg2 + ! 25.Kxg2 …Qe2+=</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And Black finally ended with a drawn position. But all of this wouldn’t be easy to reproduce in a game, especially if this variation is used as a surprise.</span></span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-71258419197987289162014-08-12T08:14:00.000-07:002014-08-12T08:14:20.365-07:00Webinar: “Typical Mistakes in Practical Middlegame and Endings.”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today I have some good news for you. IM ValeriLilov will conduct <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">a live webinar</span></b>“ <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Typical mistakes in practical middle game and endings</span></strong>” on Sunday, 17 August.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. What “a webinar” is?</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s a live TRAINING session with a coach. During this event you can communicate with a teacher via chat, perform the tasks, and ultimately, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">develop necessary SKILLS</b>. Thus it’s a really effective way of training that brings you <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">immediate results</span>.</span></div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You may read more about our webinars in this article: <a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.in/2014/07/the-webinar-and-students-questions.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Webinar Questions">LINK</a></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. </i></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Typical Mistakes in Practical Middlegame and Endings”</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If your chess progress is not as fast as you want (or if you stuck on some level) – this is caused by some errors in your games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s hard to get rid of our weaknesses. Moreover, sometimes we can’t even realize exactly what’s wrong. You just keep learning chess, but don’t get the desired results…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In Remote Chess Academy we interact with thousands of students. Hence we know the most common weaknesses of chess players. We’ll be glad to help you eliminate the weak sides of your play, and to unleash your movement forward.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. </i></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Should I attend the webinar of IM ValeriLilov?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Certainly I will conduct some webinars myself in the future. At the same time, I will also invite my friends – experienced coaches and strong players – to make such training sessions for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Every chess coach has his area of specialization</b>, where he is the most knowledgeable and experienced. If you accumulate the best techniques from different teachers, that will form your comprehensive and powerful chess understanding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Even when I ask another coach to make a webinar/lesson for you, I supervise his work closely. I will always make sure that you get only high-quality and EFFECTIVE training.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By the way, if you haven’t seen Lilov’s lesson about prophylaxis – please, do so here: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/karpovs-prophylaxis/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Lilov Video"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #339966; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. </i></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why is this webinar paid?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can check it here: <a href="http://rcaofficialpartner.blogspot.in/2014/07/the-webinar-and-students-questions.html" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Webinar Questions">LINK</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While I’m engaging the best coaches to make highly effective training sessions for you, I’ll try to keep the price really small. For instance, the fee for the webinar “<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Typical mistakes in practical middle game and ending</span>s” is only<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 5 usd</span></strong>.</span></div>
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<li style="background-image: url(http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/stylin-content/images/bullets/asterisk.png); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Date</span></b>: <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sunday, 17 August at 5pm(17:00)</span> BST (London time, you can check it here: <a href="http://24timezones.com/world_directory/current_london_time.php" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="London Time Zone">LINK)</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the registration, you will be able to send 1 or 2 of your games in .pgn format, with your comments and questions or troubles <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">related to the topic of the webinar. </b>IM Lilov will explain and clear your doubts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the webinar each position will be analysed on <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">a </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">first come, first served basis</span></strong>. Hence, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you should sign up for the webinar as early as possible!</b></span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-85096118785573171852014-08-02T22:04:00.002-07:002014-08-02T22:04:33.722-07:00Chess Strategy: Exploiting Weaknesses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The easiest way to win a game is to attack opponent’s WEAKNESSES.</b> </span>In general, this is pretty obvious. Karpov, Petrosian and other great players won countless games by using this concept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">However, when it comes to YOUR OWN GAMES, the situation turns out to be trickier; for instance:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">how can YOU exploit opponent’s weaknesses, and bring home a well-deserved win?</b> Today, we’ll go through a game of a student who did it just right! Remember these ideas, and use them in your games!<span id="more-7941" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s noticeable that this student is only <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">an amateur player rated 1700</span>!</span>Nevertheless, she played a high-level game and demonstrated deep strategic understanding. I just want to highlight that you do NOT have to have “Carlsen’s talent” to play chess well <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> Here’s what the student wrote to me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Bhuvana" class="size-full wp-image-7976 alignleft" height="328" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bhuvana.jpg" style="border: none; float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" width="150" />Hi Igor,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Greetings! I am R Bhuvaneshwari hailing from Trichy, India. All along Chess is considered to be played by people who are very good at creativity… but when I started going through your material “Calculate till mate” I understood the art of being creative and how to implement those creative ideas in my game.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I use to think very hard to find a right continuation in some positions and I wouldn’t find one. But now, I’m able to draw the conclusion of how i am supposed to proceed with the plan. I won over opponents who are 300 points higher than my rating elo in the recent tournament even without completing the course fully. I can’t even imagine how better I would play when I complete it.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well! I’m not a very serious chess player and I only play selected tournaments, but from now on I have decided that I would start playing tournaments continuously and I want to achieve something big in chess.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After all of this, I’ve started loving Chess and I feel some sort of happiness which I have never ever sensed in any part of my life. I am very much grateful to Mr Manikandaswamy your accredited Indian Representative and Mr Hariiharan S Pillai of Vellore without whom this wouldn’t have been possible.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bhuvaneshwari-Brown</b></span><img alt="Bhuvaneshwari-Brown" class="aligncenter wp-image-7969" height="456" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bhuvaneshwari-Brown.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;" width="456" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">White’s turn</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s a very typical middlegame position. White has placed his pieces on optimum positions already. How to proceed further? How should White develop his initiative? <span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Please, write YOUR move in comments below</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After you came up with your solution, please, observe the whole commented game here: <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/exploiting-weakness/" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Exploiting weakness"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK</b></a></span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754656612708691080.post-81219440613344709612014-07-24T22:11:00.001-07:002014-07-24T22:11:25.048-07:00The Webinar and Students’ Questions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Students have sent me a lot of questions about the webinar, “<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Art of the Endgame</strong></span>”, which will take place this <span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sunday (27 July)</strong></span>. Hence, I’ll answer them all right here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. </i></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What’s the point of the webinar? How does it differ from a video lesson?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During a webinar, you have communication with a coach in live mode. I’m telling you the tasks, while you can ask your questions. <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is real TRAINING, which develops your SKILLS</b>. Hence, you’ll be able to improve your chess strength properly during the webinar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A video lesson or a text article provides some information to you. Any chess player can find tons of information about a chess game on the Internet. So what? Has this overabundance of content made you a strong player? Probably not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Information does not affect your play. Only a new SKILL can do so.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. </i></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Will you provide a recording of this webinar later on?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, but it will be provided ONLY to the participants in the webinar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the same time, of course, it’s a lot more useful to take part in a webinar, rather than to watch its recording later on. Again, you should get the full benefit from the TRAINING that will improve your SKILLS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. </i></b></span><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I don’t have any specific questions or problems for the endgame. Should I still participate?</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The participants in the webinar have a unique chance to submit their games. I’ll analyse them and will help the participants to improve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">However, it’s OPTIONAL to provide your games. If you have no specific questions, you may still take part in the webinar. You’ll improve your endgame skills as well as your overall chess understanding (because the endgame is pure <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">strategy</span>).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. </i></b><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why is the webinar paid?</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1) Firstly, let’s be realistic. Do you really believe that a certain GrandMaster would spend his time and effort to share his secrets with potential competitors? <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 99% of the lessons out there, the authors tell you WHAT moves were played together with the eventual sidelines. So what? This does not clarify their real secrets: <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">exactly how they find such moves while playing a game.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Imagine that somebody shows you how a car moves but does not teach you HOW to drive a car (how you can do so yourself). <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> This is an analogy to what you get in most of the free lessons on the Internet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2) Secondly, in the case of free lessons, nobody has a real motivation for them. A student knows that this is just “another free lesson from the Internet”. An author does not feel any responsibility, because this is his free lesson (his gift). Obviously, under such poor circumstances, the results will be poor as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Based on my many years’ experience (both as a student and as a coach), I know that paid lessons are MUCH more effective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the first (free) webinar I held, there were around 200 participants. That’s a lot of people and I could not allocate my attention to everyone’s personal needs. This time, I’ve set a relatively large entry fee. Hence, there will be a small group of students and I’ll be able to provide my full support to everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993300; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. </i></b><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How will the webinar’s information differ from the course “An Endgame Expert”?</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you have studied the course “<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/1511-9.html" target="_blank">An Endgame Expert</a>” – good for you! You are already way beyond most other players of your level. Now it’s time to go forward and achieve greater goals!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The webinar will be based on the STUDENTS’ needs and questions. I’ll analyse your games and will show you what’s wrong and how to get better. That’s quite a unique chance for you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The webinar, “<span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Art of the Endgame</span>”, will take place on<span style="color: green; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Sunday 27 July at 5p.m. BST</span> (that is London time – you can check it here:<a href="http://24timezones.com/world_directory/current_london_time.php" style="color: #0a6db2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="London Time Zone"> LINK</a>)</span></div>
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