Readers disappointed by lack of new coaching material on this site may be aware of the activity on the website of the Devon Junior Chess Association . Most of it is pretty basic and/or already covered here, but I've recently been thinking about calculation, and there is a page How to get better at calculation which I might equally have placed here.
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I thought about what Finegold had said at the end of our first lesson. After we’d gone through a few of my games, he had nonchalantly asked me whether I’d like to know the secret of chess. “Um, sure,” I said. “Okay, I’ll tell you. But you’re not going to believe me,” he said. “And maybe you never will.” This was correct. I had no idea what to make of the secret of chess. And I definitely didn’t believe it. Only later, much later, when I was walking on a beach in California, did his words really strike me with their full force. |
Sasha Chapin |