| General Chess Discussion - Pawnless Q vs 2B, Are there any GM games? What are the practical chances?#4 I suspect there aren't any games, but I'd love to know! Apparently there is precisely one fortress and one reciprocal zugzwang, but like you say there are many normal positions that require more than … | njswift  |
| General Chess Discussion - Grandmaster games analysis#7 It's best to read annotations by the actual player if possible because you want to study the thought process of masters more than the actual moves. It's also a good idea to study older pre-FIDE games … | njswift |
| General Chess Discussion - Playing against the advance Caro-Kann#6 I like to play the Botvinnik-Carls and I made this study about it that might help a little. It's just about the basic ideas so it won't be helpful for serious tournament preparation, but it includes s… | njswift |
| General Chess Discussion - How to calculate pawn endgames?#4 I'm fascinated by pawn endgames because they are so deceptively complicated. One of my favorite chess books is Secrets of Pawn Endings by Lamprecht and Muller, which will teach you most of what you ne… | njswift |
| General Chess Discussion - Dont know where to improve...#4 Since you have to study everything, probably the best choice is to study things that you enjoy, because you'll do it more, you'll focus better, and you'll retain the information. But here are a few su… | njswift |
| General Chess Discussion - Exercises to increase calculation depth?#5 You can only calculate as deeply as you can visualize, so if you have trouble moving the pieces in your head (like me) then visualization is a good place to start. I think the Visualise series on Ches… | njswift |
| General Chess Discussion - How can one train prophylaxis in Chess?#4 It's a very general topic, but I think there are ways you can work on it, just like you can work on strategy by breaking it down into smaller elements. For tactical practice, you could flip the board … | njswift |
| General Chess Discussion - How can one train endgames with many pieces on the board ?#4 There's a great book by Glenn Flear called Practical Endgame Play that deals with these late-middlegame or proto-endgame positions. Books on endgame theory usually cover positions where each side has … | njswift |
| General Chess Discussion - Looking for good books on Catalan and Caro Kann Games#2 The Caro-Kann by Lars Schandorff has about 25 complete games mostly from 1990-2010. I have a bunch of studies collecting Caro-Kann games of famous players that you can look through or clone for your o… | njswift |
| General Chess Discussion - Playing My studies#2 At the bottom of the right corner of the chess board there is a "preview" button that allows you to play the chapter, but I think you have to press it for every new chapter. Otherwise I think you have… | njswift |
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