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@BigData1969 - Thank you, that sounds great, and I like that you have those Google Meet sessions for analysis! The only problem is that Tuesday clashes with 4NCL (that also has both individual and tea…

Ah, OK, I found all the details here: https://lichess.org/@/HemmingfordCC/blog/hcc-spring-2025-tournament/wzX4083m Looks like a nice tournament!

@BigData1969 said in #2: > Thank you for posting this. @datasmith and I run G/60 + 30 tournaments here on lichess. We have an Americas section that plays most games Thursday evenings (Americas time) a…

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Some more books with graded/easier endgame studies: 3. "The Chess Endgame Exercise Book" by John Nunn. Has 444 endgame exercises, all graded (1-5 stars) and grouped by topics and sets to solve togethe…

Several other books that were recommended to me after publishing the post: 1. "Endgame Labyrinths" by Jacob Aagaard and Steffen Nielsen - contains 1002 endgame problems, all graded. However, the probl…

@LCY_DollyParton said in #2: > I don't read most of his books but Cyrus Lakdawala's Tactical Training in the Endgame is fab for this Thank you! It looks like in that book it's not always composed stud…

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