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Lessons in Philidor's Defence - live action version
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Knight's Tour
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Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon, 2013
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The Art of Analysis, Part 1
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The pieces at their best
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Coaching Summer 2014
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DGT XL clocks
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Club Championship 2014/15
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To take is a mistake - tension in the chess position
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Opening Workshop 2015
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Exeter Club Championship & Rapidplay Tournament 2012-2013
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The Improving Annotator
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Test canvas AOK
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Exeter Chess Club Simul 1995
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Shakespeare Annotates
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Two Open Games
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The Art of Analysis
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Assess Your Chess
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Exeter Chess Club RAPIDPLAY Championship 2016-17
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Exeter Chess Club Championship 2016-17
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Said the Elephant to the Bishop...
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What's wrong with club players? An MOT for us all
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Erro ergo sum: analysis and error
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Chess Coaching Summer 2011 (updated 23rd August)
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An ABC of chess
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Openings Workshop 2013
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Opening workshop 2018 part 2
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Opening workshop 2018
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Club Championship 2015/16
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Who would win in a fight between a lion and a bear? (endgame fortresses)
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The chess family tree
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Lessons from Euwe
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A course in chess tactics
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Endings
General advice on the endgame
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Openings
Ten rules for the opening
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Openings
Playing Black against King's-Pawn Openings (1.e4)
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Endings
MiddleGame Endings and Endgame Openings
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Strategy
Rooks on ranks and files
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Endings
Mate with Two Bishops
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Strategy
The Fianchetto: a user's guide
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Outside passed Pawns
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Openings
The Ulvestad Variation of the Two Knights' Defence
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Lessons from Morphy
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Nineteenth-Century Openings
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No More Old Stodge!
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The Italian Game for beginners
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A first opening repertoire
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Playing 1.d4 for juniors
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Upon the pin
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Openings
Minor Openings
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Attack
Attacking the castled King
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No more Old Stodge! (2)
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Lessons in Philidor's Defence
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Choosing an Opening Repertoire
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General Middlegame Advice
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Endings
Rook Endings in Theory
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Mate with the Two Bishops
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A disaster in the Stonewall
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Vukovic's mates
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Get your eye in -- basic practice in noticing attacks
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Four Choices in the Opening
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The French Defence for Beginners I: Key Ideas
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Coaching
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Bruce Rowston at work
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Winning a drawn endgame
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Knight outposts
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Exchanging into King Endings
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Queen against Pawn
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Cool Tips
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Endings
Rook Endings in Practice
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Opposite-coloured Bishops in the endgame and the middle-game
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Chess with Attitude
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Endings
A Rook Ending: Capablanca-Janowsky
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The Colle System
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Attack
The Very Slow King's-side Attack
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Strategy
Weak pawns
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Moller
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Lessons from Mikhail Tal
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Schematic thinking
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Openings
The Caro-Kann
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Openings
Gambits
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Openings
The Swiss Defence
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Safe and solid?
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Openings
Systems against the English Opening: book resources
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Strategy
Exchanging to Win
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Openings
Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4 (2)
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Openings
Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings (1) Cambridge Springs
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Openings
Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4 (1)
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Openings
Tales of the Unexpected: dealing with Unorthodox Openings
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Compensation for material?
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Openings
The French Defence for Beginners II: Key Variations
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Openings
Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4 (3)
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Openings
Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings (2): Semi-Slav and Exchange
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Chess style
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The Solid Sicilian
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Openings
Beating the Anti-Indians
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Endings
Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation: White wins
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Strategy
Pawn formations
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Openings
The secret arts of castling
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Openings
Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings
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Openings
Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings (3): without c2-c4
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Openings
Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4
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Lessons from Bobby Fischer
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Openings
Custer's Last Stand
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Openings
The Petroff Defence for Beginners
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Openings
The Dutch Stonewall
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Benonis
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Lessons from Larsen
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Two weaknesses
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Doubled c-Pawns
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The Queen's Gambit Accepted/Isolated Queen's Pawn
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Contempt for Pawns
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Openings
The Bogoljubow Paradox
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Praxis
Lessons from Rubinstein
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Openings
The Variations of the King's Gambit
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Praxis
Club Games - Steve Webb at work
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Club Games - Mark Blackmore on a roll
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Lessons from Lasker
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Strategy and Tactics
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Attack
Capablanca - Master of the Attack
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The Sicilian Defence
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Attack
The Theory of Steinitz
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Openings
The Ideas Behind the Modern Defence
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Openings
The Modern Italian Game
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Openings
Five Sicilians from club play
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Openings
The Ideas behind the King's Gambit
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Strategy
"To take is a mistake"
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Strategy
Mysterious moves
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Openings
Dr.Dave's Adventures with the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
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Openings
The Hypermodern Approach
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Bishops: good, bad and both.
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Lessons from Capablanca
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Strategy
The Queen's-side attack
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The French 'Little Centre'
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Openings
The London System
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Openings
The Ideas behind the English Opening
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Openings
Slav or Semi?
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Openings
SuperMac!
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Studies and problems
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Endings
Bishop Endgames
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Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon, 2000
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Basic Rook Endgames
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Spanish Torture? The Ruy Lopez
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Openings
Do New Ideas Stand Up in Practice? by GM Richard Reti
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Openings
You know when you've been Benko'd
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Praxis
Dr.Dave's Further Adventures at East Devon
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Strategy
Space and potential (mud, mud, glorious mud)
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Praxis
Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon, 2014
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Endings
Double Bishop Endgames
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Praxis
Chunking in patterns of GM thought
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Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon 2016
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Meat and potatoes
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Openings
Taimanov's Legacy
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Openings
The Deadly English
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Lessons from Tartakower
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Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik by Imre Konig
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Lessons from Petrosian
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The Closed Sicilian
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How to mate with Bishop and Knight
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Club Games - Andrew Pickering at work
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Steve Homer at work
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New starting formations (Tabi'at)
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Strategy
On manoeuvres
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Strategy
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Minority attack?
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Preparation for Combinations
Chess in Exeter and beyond
Exeter Chess Club
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