Decisive Advantage? Update

When do you resign? Losing an exchange should not be sufficient cause for resignation. But, what if you are down an exchange and your oppone...

Breakthrough Update

This ending caught my interest as I was working through the games in Chess Informant 130. It is from Moroni -- Hamitevici, Baku 2018, Infor...

Studying with Kramnik Update

Over the course of three sessions, I blitzed through all of the games in Chess Informant 130 that contain an ECO Code beginning with E.* As...

Stock Gyrations Most Complete From Sopintar

Is this 1929, the beginning of the end? Or 2007? Is it 1974, annus horribilis in which the stock market drifted down 40% having something t...

Inspired by Morphy Update

Lesson of the Week This week's lesson for advanced students features part of a complex struggle that reveals how Yasser Seirawan was i...

A Technical Win? Update

The annotations in Chess Informant 44/672 by Oscar Panno indicate that Black is in zugzwang . The game was Panno -- Leskovar, Buenos Aires ...

Home Preparation Update

The Queen's Indian Defense vexes me. I have struggled enough against it that I've found myself playing the Black side recently in bl...

Patterns and Calculation Update

If we fail to make an idea work, we need to stop and ascertain the cause of the failure (i.e. answer the question 'why?'), and then...

The Fighting Dragon Update

A Book Review The Fighting Dragon: How to Defeat the Yugoslav Attack (Boston: Mongoose Press, 2018) by Paul Powell is not a repertoire bo...

Deficits Most Complete From Sopintar

The graph is federal surplus (up) or deficit (down), not counting interest costs, divided by potential GDP. I made it for another purpose...