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Jul 25, 20222 min read
Winning against the Scandinavian
I am going to present a powerful system with White to fight against the main old line of the Scandinavian Defence. Me!- riga1960...
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Jun 16, 20221 min read
Power to imagination
Realising that my position (White) is nothing to be proud of, I played Qf4 with the hope to target the only weakness in Black's position:...
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Feb 19, 20222 min read
The opening is not everything
Indeed! And you can beat strong players virtually with any opening. Do not beat yourself because you don't know X and Y openings, and do...
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Feb 1, 20222 min read
Showing off!
I have played an interesting game using my regular off-beat openings (basically rubbish but good enough for a rapid game!). There was a...
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Jan 29, 20223 min read
Greed
Greed. What a horrible, horrible thing when you play a chess game. When we learn the game, we are taught that gaining material is good...
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Jan 25, 20224 min read
The slow dance
My last post was about how to win fast with dynamic play. https://marcoferrante.wixsite.com/website/post/be-dynamic Unfortunately, you...
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Jan 22, 20222 min read
Be dynamic!
This is how you play when you want to win fast! Me! - TourneyPro (chess.com, 22 Jan 2022) 1.Nf3 f5 2.e4!? Black was probably expecting...
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Jul 5, 20202 min read
Decision making: Ex. no.7
Here we are, the final exercise! This time, I am going to present the entire game. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Bb5 Nge7 5.0-0 a6 6.Bd3...
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Jul 5, 20202 min read
Decision making: Ex. no.6
In the previous post, we had an example of what we could call “active prophylaxis”. In that particular example, the king move was...
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Jul 5, 20202 min read
Decision making: Ex. no.5
In this post, I am going to reinforce the concept of the comparison method to select between variations. The first time that I introduce...
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Jul 5, 20205 min read
Decision making: Ex. no.4
In the previous posts, we saw several tools that might help us to decide which move to play in a complicated position. It would be a...
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Jul 5, 20202 min read
Decision making: Ex. no.3
In the previous exercises, we discovered the importance of assessing the nature of the position, and of using our evaluation skills to...
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Jul 5, 20204 min read
Decision making: Ex. no.1
The first position comes from a game that I played in Malta against Kanyamarala Tarun, a young FIDE master from Ireland. I played White....
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Jul 5, 20203 min read
Decision making: Ex. no.2
In the previous exercise, we examined how 1) understanding whether the position was a dynamic or a positional game can help you to find...
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Jul 5, 20202 min read
Decision making in chess: a toolbox
My dad and I in Lisbon (Open Portugal 2018). In the next posts, I am going to share a few thoughts on how to decide what to play in...
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Jun 30, 20203 min read
Never give up!
I want to take a moment to write about how beautiful is to keep playing chess even if you are not a professional chess player. I have...
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