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When I was growing up and starting with chess in the 1980s, there was no technology to help. It was books and humans only. I didn’t have a human to help me with my chess improvement, but luckily, I had books, lots of them. One of them was Yakov Neishtadt’s Sahovski Praktikum. It looked like this: [ ] The post The Woodpecker Before the Woodpecker Method appeared first on GM Alex Colovic .
Most chess advice tells you what to study. This is about how to study.I wrote The Method because I had to build these training habits myself through three very different periods where I was in crisis, I was suffering and my chess stagnated.This guide distills those lessons into three protocols you can follow. What [ ] The post The Method: A Practical Guide to Chess Improvement appeared first on GM…
I don t write on this blog often and the main reason is the problem of growth and reach. In this post I d like to give you an idea what I do lately and tell you about my other outlets where I write today. This doesn t mean that I will close this blog, no way, after [ ] The post The Problem of Growth appeared first on GM Alex Colovic .
It s been very hectic several months since I last wrote. Here s a recap of what I ve been doing ever since. In August I played the Segunda Division (the second Spanish league) in the legendary town of Linares. It s 7-round tournament where I played six games. There is one double-round day and I skip the morning [ ] The post A Long-Overdue Update appeared first on GM Alex Colovic .
The World Cup in Baku is well under way and I have already shared my preview and analysis on my Youtube channel, which you can check here. There are many interesting games already, but I was drawn to one episode in particular, because it is something that I can connect to what has happened before. [ ] The post Shankland s Shockers appeared first on GM Alex Colovic .
Some time ago, I remember a young and promising GM crying on social media, in all seriousness, how the public cannot possibly understand the agonising pain of losing 20 rating points and dropping below 2600. I wasn t sure whether to laugh or cry from such deification of the rating numbers. And yet, they control us. [ ] The post Rating Is The Enemy appeared first on GM Alex Colovic .
I grew up watching the Karpov-Kasparov matches in the 1980s. As a kid, I was rooting for Kasparov and I remember the joy I felt when I heard the news that he won the last game in Seville and kept his title. When I started playing opens around Europe in the 1990s I encountered several [ ] The post Controversy in 1984 appeared first on GM Alex Colovic .
In the past few months I was going over Nigel Short s games from his book Winning. I always liked Nigel and rooted for him in the 80s and 90s as he was the best from the West and I was curious to see how far he could go. I find the games in the book [ ] The post Grandmasters Misevaluations appeared first on GM Alex Colovic .
This one is from my newsletter. In case you were wondering, I won t be talking about physical exercise and actual riding of a bicycle, even though that is a painful subject for me, the lack of it, to be more exact. That will likely be a topic for another day. Now I d like to share [ ] The post Riding a Bicycle appeared first on GM Alex Colovic .
It s a valid question that crops up more and more lately. The latest impetus for asking it was Carlsen s statement from his recent interview with chesscom when they spoke about the purchase of his company Play Magnus Group. Carlsen openly stated that he expects classical chess to be phased out at his level. This is [ ] The post Are the Days of Classical Chess Numbered? appeared first on GM Alex…
