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Improve your tactics!
03/05/08
Thanks to the wide variety of software and books available, it has never been easier to improve your chess. In this article, I discuss the components of tactical skill, and provide some guidelines for improving in this area. Along the way I also take a look at some popular myths and misconceptions about tactical ability, and how it is improved.
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Composing razor-sharp training exercises with Chess Assistant
12/17/07
Maxim Blokh shows us some of the techniques that he uses within Chess Assistant to create the problems in his books, and the program CT-ART. As some of you may be aware, many of the positions have a different solution, depending on who's side it is to move. Training positions like this buid tactical vision, since it requires the student to pay special attention to any resources the opponent might have. Maxim refers to these types of exercises as "dual task", for obvious reasons. ...more
Quickly filling in field names
11/01/07
Today, I've got a very quick article on automatically filling in field names. This technique is commonly used when you are quickly entering a number of games, and want to assign a single tournament name to them. Or let's say you're copy an number of games that you played on an internet server, and want to make sure that the server name is properly recorded. ...more
Chess Assistant Objects
09/07/07
NextChess assistant has a number of things I will call "objects", for lack of a better term. However, working with, and understanding these objects is key to a deeper understanding of the program.
I highly recommend that beginners read this article (and some intermediate users), because it will enable much greater mastery of the program.
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