This was the last week of the chess skill building project. The initial idea for my last lesson with Andrea was to play a couple

At the beginning of this skill building project, Andrea (my chess coach during these months) suggested I picked one opening to play with Black versus

Perhaps the most important trait a player needs is a warped sense of humor.GM Tony Miles The first time I read there was humor in

A good part of how to learn something is unlearning our old ways. This is especially true with skills you learned many years (or even

How do we know what to play next in a chess game? How can we tell which ones are the good movements? An interesting idea

I always knew that chess is not a purely intellectual game, even though it looks like that: patterns, positions, variants, technical skills, etc. But there’s