Recycling Fischer
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by GM Alex Colovic
1M ago
One of Fischer’s original ideas, the move …g5 in the Sicilian/Hedgehog structures was first implemented in his game against Garcia Soruco at the Havana Olympiad in 1966. In this position, Fischer played 14…Kh8! With the idea of …Rg8 and …g5, starting an unexpected attack on the kingside. Fischer repeated this idea four years later in an exhibition game against Ulf Andersson, played immediately after the Siegen Olympiad. White continued with 13.Kh1! with the idea of Rg1 and g4. It is very likely that Fischer first saw this idea in one of Morphy’s games. He was an ardent student of Morphy and ..read more
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Chessable Research Awards -Talent Identification in Youth Chess Players
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by Alexey Root
1M ago
The Chessable Research Awards for the Fall 2023 cycle had two winners, undergraduate student Aditya Gupta and graduate student Denise Trippold. In this guest blog post, Woman FIDE Master Denise Trippold writes about her research, which was supervised by Roland H. Grabner (University of Graz, Austria) and Merim Bilalić (Northumbria University, United Kingdom). The aim of her master’s thesis is to examine the relations between chess skill and different psychological variables to identify psychological indicators of chess talent. Talent Identification in Youth Chess Players by Denise Trippold On ..read more
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Announcing the Winners of Chessable’s 3rd Annual Create Your Own Course Contest
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by Matthew Astle
1M ago
Fresh off the back of the 2023 Chessable Awards, we’ve got another round of awards to be announced, the winners of the 2023 Create Your Own Course contest. The CYOC awards are rather unique in that these are the courses that you as Chessablers have submitted and which we’ve judged to be the best. The decision process was not easy. Chessable community members submitted a plethora of excellent courses. And even those that have not taken home a prize may still go on to flourish. One example is Can Kabadayi, whose courses were so popular they went on to be converted into full video courses, and he ..read more
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Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Chessable Awards
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by Matthew Astle
1M ago
It’s one of the most exciting times of the year at Chessable. That’s right, it’s time to unveil the winners of the 2023 Chessable Awards. Thousands of Chessablers like you voted on what you thought were the best courses and authors to enter our catalog last year. In 2023, we had some of the biggest names in chess debut on Chessable. The likes of Levy Rozman, a.k.a Gotham Chess, and Fabiano Caruana published their first-ever courses for the platform, which were highly anticipated. Chessable is always looking to keep things fresh and engaging for the community by trying to make learning chess as ..read more
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Chessable Research Awards Fall 2023 Winner: Using Machine Learning to Value Chess Pieces and Squares
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by Alexey Root
2M ago
The Chessable Research Awards for the Fall 2023 cycle had two winners, undergraduate student Aditya Gupta and graduate student Denise Trippold. In this guest blog post, Aditya Gupta discusses the research he did with Dr. Nick Polson, Dr. Vadim Sokolov, and FIDE Trainer Shiva Maharaj. When Aditya received his Chessable Research Award, he was pursuing dual enrollment in mathematics through the University of Illinois. For the spring of 2024, he is matriculating as an incoming freshman in computer science at Stanford University. Contact Aditya at agupta42@stanford.edu Using Machine Learning to Val ..read more
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My New Course 1.d4 Simplified and How I Work On My Courses
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by GM Alex Colovic
2M ago
In the first half of January my new course 1.d4 Simplified was published. In this post, I’d like to describe the process of how my courses come to life, at the same time sharing some examples from my latest one. In modern theory, all the main lines lead not only to equality but to positions where there is very little play left. This means that the primary idea of any opening preparation, especially with White, is to provide variations where there is play left in the position. In most cases, the position will be equal, it’s impossible to find an advantage for White against Black’s main openings ..read more
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Pre-Game Routine
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by GM Alex Colovic
3M ago
The sixth World Champion, Mikhail Botvinnik, was famous for his rigorous regime. A man of principle, once he determined a course of action, he followed it without fail. Botvinnik was the father of modern-day preparation. He invented the scientific approach to chess, how to prepare an opening, how to prepare against a certain player, how to analyse endgames and a player’s strengths and weaknesses. It is not surprising, therefore, that his most famous pupil, Garry Kasparov, followed his teacher’s methods. One of these methods was the approach to the pre-game routine. Botvinnik wrote that he ate ..read more
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Chessable Year in Review + New Badges
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by Matthew Astle
3M ago
It’s the end of the year! That means it’s time to reflect on 2023 and set goals for the new year. That’s why today we are releasing two features to help you with both: Your 2023 Chessable Year in Review and some new badges to hunt in 2024. Year in Review In your personal year-in-review report, you can look at things such as your most-studied courses, your overall accuracy, and your total study time. Check out your personal report here: Chessable Year in Review. New Badges Sometimes it helps to have a mini goal to help you achieve your larger goals. Badges do just that, and they are fun to go ..read more
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5 Features to Try During PRO Week
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by Andrew Kauffman
3M ago
From December 8-15, it’s PRO week here at Chessable. That means we’re gifting one week of Chessable PRO away to all members – no strings attached, and no payment information necessary!  Simply click this link to activate your free PRO membership for a week, starting from the day you claim it. If you’ve already got a PRO membership, you get a free week of PRO added on top of your membership. It’s our way of saying thanks to our Chessable community, and offering you a way to try all the great features PRO has to offer.  Claim your free week of Chessable PRO But with so many to choose f ..read more
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How Slow is the Slow Slav
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by Matthew Astle
4M ago
The so-called Slow Slav appears after the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3. With his last move White defended the pawn on c4, thus preventing the Classical Slav after 4.Nc3 dxc4. White also postponed the development of the knight on b1, so a possible development on d2 is possible. The drawback of this flexibility is the early closing of the dark-squared bishop. Black can react in more than one way, given the non-forcing nature of the position. In 2008, when Vishy Anand was preparing for his title match against Vladimir Kramnik, his team decided that the Slav was going to be Anand’s main d ..read more
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