I've heard several chess coaches question if amateurs get sufficient value from studying annotated master games.
All I can say is that playing through hundreds of annotated games has helped me get a feel for where my pieces should go.
What more could you want?
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I don't really share many of my games because I feel like they have to be perfect to be worth sharing. But the truth is that my games aren't that good, so I decided to start sharing some where I'm just having fun 😇 This is a blitz game with the Icelandic gambit #chesspunks
Out of the blue, my Dad, a social media/tech novice with absolutely no independent interest in chess, just asked me if I “happen to know someone called ChessVonDoom”!? 🤨
Apparently he stumbled across your tiktok @ChessVonDoom!
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The 2023 #chesspunks award nominations are open until the end of June.
The 3 Judges will select the four winners in July, and I will announce winners and send the awards in August.
Please vote only once and not for me as I am not eligible.
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Todays training game was fun! 😍 I'm unhappy about 6. d5? 16. Ng6? And 18.Qd3? Oh well, I will keep working on tactics and skills 😁 I'm happy about my time management for once, and 0 blunders. The Vienna sure is a lot of fun on my level! 🥰 #chesspunks
In 10 days, I will publish the nomination form for the 2023 Chess Punk Awards.
The annual #chesspunks categories are:
1. Best game
2. Most encouraging
3. Best content creator
4. Honorary Chess Punk
I will ship one of these beautiful medallions to each winner.
I will soon publish the next book in the Tactics Ladder Series 🪜
The book will be aimed towards players who train to reach a 1000 FIDE rating.
I will send out the ebook-version to paid subscribers of my Substack next week.
The paperback should arrive on Amazon in 14 days or so 📕
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New podcast out 🎙️
I have interviewed @TheOnoZone about blunders, beginners mistakes, and chess coaching. Many interesting takeaways that I plan to use for my book.
https://t.co/TAcDoXOUnv
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For those that are interested, I have 65(!) OTB Tournament games up on my channel where you can see the progress I made from a complete beginner who played at a sub 1000 level all the way to 1750 within 2 years!
New series on my channel starting friday! I started doing guess the move with the 60 memorable games and thought it would be cool to start uploading my thoughts on each game! First one's out now! https://t.co/Nto6WY0pq9
This week on Chess Journeys, I had a great chat with the one and only @saychess1 We talked about so many topics from his improvement to his chess empire. Does he do it all? Yes! How does he have time? No idea.
https://t.co/upAsnwVMIV