on line favorite columnists

[Hans Jung]

I enjoy reading Jeremy Silmans regular columns (even tho they are geared to average and beginning tournament players ) Another that I enjoy is GM Serper. His latest: Magnus Carlsen's Biggest Secret is food for thought. Where: chess.com. Great resources there if you know how to use them. Just enough to whet your appetite and easy reading but make you apply your chess skills.

[Nigel Hanrahan]

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Richard James in the UK, along with GM Nigel Davies et al, writes an occasional column at The Chess Improver which is short and to the point.

Richard is also the author of a number of publications in which he argues for a more European approach to teaching chess, which I agree with, and which can be contrasted with the typical North American approach: in the latter, an aspiring beginner learns the moves at home and then joins a club, after which they tend to move the pieces aimlessly about the board, without any sort of plan whatsoever, and often reach their chess ceiling far too soon and abandon efforts at improvement; in the former, an aspiring beginner learns at a chess club, from the start, not necessarily playing with all the pieces, learning the strengths of each piece, etc., and thereby building a better foundation upon which future learning can take place. This approach is also very useful when, for example, you have 60 or 80 children in a room (which I sometimes do) and you run out of full chess sets. lol.

http://chessimprover.com/author/richardj/

[Wayne Komer]

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On line favorite columnists

February 12, 2018

My favorites on chess.com are batgirl and gserper.

Greg Serper's most recent offering is about tricking your opponent. A position from that article:



This is a version of the famous Saavedra position and White has the win - right?

Better read the column:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/h...-your-opponent


For another laugh:

http://forum.chesstalk.com/showthrea...ate#post106902

[Tony Boron]

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One of my favorites is Wayne Komer - his summaries of the big events he reports on have saved me dozens of hours over the years. I hope you continue !

[Hans Jung]

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I agree with Nigel: Ive been following Richard James and Nigel Davies for years, both are chess legends (what was Richard James favorite books, a series on profound facts of chess? - my memory is slipping) and as for Nigel Davies he stayed at my house during the Toronto International (1997?) and I drew him - one of my fondest memories. As for bat girl I'm in awe of her (his) research and some of my favorite alltime chess photos were dug up by batgirl. and of course Wayne Komer, enough cant be said about what he does for Canadian chess with his great reporting.

[Nigel Hanrahan]

Top 10 Uk Chess Blogs and Websites to follow in 2018

Looks like an interesting list.

https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_chess_blogs/

[Larry Bevand]

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One of my favorites is Wayne Komer - his summaries of the big events he reports on have saved me dozens of hours over the years. I hope you continue !

I totally agree (in my case probably hundreds of hours :) !

Wayne has helped me stay on top of things!

Thanks!

Larry