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The Strange Power of Doing Nothing
Hi all, I thought I might find time to write a new post this week, but we didn’t quite get there! Planning to be back to the regular schedule next week. In the meantime, here’s one more from the archives. In my last tournament I noticed an odd pattern in several of my games. When…
Jun 25
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What Really Happens in the Ruy Lopez? (re-post)
Our son was born on June 9th! For the rest of the month, as we get settled into our new routine, I’ll be re-posting popular previous posts. See you in July! A few weeks ago when I encouraged club players to take up mainlines part of my reasoning was that most of your opponents…
Jun 18
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Tournaments Are the Worst
Here's why you should still play in them
Jul 2
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Paternity Leave
On Thursday we said hello to Leo Bartholomew Solon! Everyone is healthy and happy, but a little busy, so I won’t be writing any new posts for the remainder of June. In the meantime I’ll be reposting some greatest hits from the past two years. Have a great month!
Jun 12
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oh no my metagame
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Serve and Volley
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Entropy in the Opening
Using information theory to quantify the surprise value of chess openings
Jun 4
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The Value of Surprise
Going against the grain can be a great strategy or a disastrous mistake
May 28
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Centipawns Suck
Why the most popular chess metric makes no sense, and what we should use instead
May 21
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Video Game Analysis
Watch now (12 min) | Deep dive into one of Magnus Carlsen's games from Titled Tuesday
May 16
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Magnus Dominates Titled Tuesday
How the world champion consistently crushes lesser grandmasters
May 14
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Serve and Volley
Roger Federer's strategy for dealing with getting older
May 7
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The Risks of Over-Optimizing
Why sometimes less structure is better
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The Four Stages of Competence
How to master chess ideas intuitively
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oh no my metagame
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What really happens in the Ruy Lopez?
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Serve and Volley
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