Martin K.

2025 Spring EuroTrip Back into the fray

The Ivanchuk story here is so incredible that if it weren't @hellokostya.bsky.social writing it, I would suspect it was fiction. hellokostya.substack.com/p/2025-sprin...

I like working with a book - but that takes time. Set up the board and then taking at least one hour learning with it.

Pros Chessable:
- spaced repetition (dont really repeat stuff with the book)
- no setting up the pieces over and over again
- highlighted ideas with arrowes and marked fields

I‘m always fascinated when being confronted with pictures like this.
Just can‘t imagine that nobody of the film crew noticed that the board isn‘t set up in the right way.

Eliminate the protected passed pawn followed by a fork on g5 looks nice to me.

Nxe4 fxe4 g5

Lichess.
I haven‘t used my chess com account in years.
Its just that lichess is free and Open Source - I like that spirit! And the study tool is awesome.

Dear #chesspunks

I want to study some master games over the next weeks/months. Im aware that there are a lot of collections out there, but I wanted to ask the community if some of you could recommend a particular game which you found to be (especially) instructive for yourself.

Thanks in advance!

*of the austrian master Andreas Dückstein

Black to move and win
#chesspunks
(Spasski is quoted that he stopped smoking after loosing this game)

There is a small exhibition in honor of the Andreas Dückstein who passed away in august last year. During his career he played against 7 world champions and won against 3 of them!
@dgriffinchess.bsky.social
#chess #chesspunks

Played a Team Blitz Tournament today at Viennas House of Chess. Scored 9/17 and am quite happy with that. Didn‘t lose or gain any elo. Was fun but exhausting! #chess

Who Wears the Trousers in the Chess World? Magnus Carlsen’s recent actions at the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships were not just controversial but a significant rebellion against FIDE.

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d5 to open up the e-file completely for the rook.
Would Bxd6 also work?

This is some news. Thought the whole day the PRO sign behind my nick was a bug until I read this.
Don't know what I should think about it yet. Lets see if those 3 month I got for free for buying a course last year will actually catch me...

#chesspunks #chess

www.chessable.com/blog/new-yea...

I would like to read the blog!

After some years of inactiveness (besides online blitz) now those resolutions:

to play more tournaments (OTB)
to play less blitz games online
to play more classical games
to learn how to analyse my games properly
study online AND books
to play at least one classical game a week + analyse it

I would be in too!

Thanks for the answer. I'll give it a try! :)

Would you recommend going through master games for intermediate players aswell? Im always afraid that the level would be too high for me and that I wouldn‘t understand the ideas behind certain moves anyway.

I have similar goals for the next year. Good luck with your approach!