Arnold Schwarzenegger, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Joe Biden have all been filling time with one of the world’s oldest games: chess https://t.co/7MpKmn4wGJ
While the outcome was not what I wanted today, I feel that chess has been a big winner over the last couple of weeks. Congrats to @MagnusCarlsen on his deserved victory in the #MagnusInvite
5 tips to improve positional play in #chess:
1) Go over games of great players like Karpov 🧑💻
2) Focus on one theme at a time, like an exchange sac 🏹
3) Study endgames 🔚
4) Pay attention to pawn moves ♟️
5) Prophylaxis 🔎
#ChessImprovement
“Korchnoi’s chess career spanned almost 70 years and encapsulated players representing an entire century: he played against Grigory Levenfish (b. 1889) & Magnus Carlsen (b. 1990)...
7. Avoiding certain areas of chess learning due to personal likes and dislikes, is sure to produce chronically weak areas in a player’s chess arsenal over a period and this hampers the growth of a chess player.
"Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."—Richard Feynman. Quoted in People Magazine, 22 July 1985.
It almost feels as if, in a subtle Machiavellian move, Magnus Carlsen took advantage of the pausing of the Candidates tournament by organizing an online event with the sole purpose of further demoralizing the participating Candidates.
Grischuk: "You have Kasparov, Fischer, Magnus, Karpov, but then I don't see anyone clearly better historically than Vishy. He's extremely unlucky those blitz & rapid tournaments started when he was going downhill. If they started in the early 90s he'd have at least 6 trophies"