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Working on Play

My Annual Chess Review

My New AI Chess Coach

The Engine Is An Oracle

How Elo Ratings Actually Work

Preposterous Overadjustment as a Strategy

How to Make Opening Knowledge Stick

Missing the Point

Which Time Control Is Best For Improvement?

Why Is Chess So Hard?

Too Good, Too Fast?

Online Cheating

Did Hans Niemann Cheat?

You Own Too Many Chess Books

Common Mistakes and How to Fix Them

Six Thoughts on Chess's Cheating Scandal

Play Chess Like a Firefighter

What's a Pawn Worth?

The Power of Pressure

Making Sense of Mistakes

My Blitz Routine

Getting More Out of Puzzles

Time Management

The Top 5 Opening Myths

Preparing for a Tournament

Tournaments Are the Worst

The Strange Power of Doing Nothing

What Really Happens in the Ruy Lopez? (re-post)

Paternity Leave

Entropy in the Opening

The Value of Surprise

Centipawns Suck

Video Game Analysis

Magnus Dominates Titled Tuesday

Serve and Volley

The Risks of Over-Optimizing

The Four Stages of Competence

The Strange Power of Doing Nothing

Stop Cheating on Your Training

How to Build an Opening Repertoire

The Problem With Memorization

oh no my metagame

Puzzles vs. Games

How To Turn Around A Losing Game

How To Get Unstumped

It's Not Either-Or

When You Can't Find the Win

What really happens in the Ruy Lopez?

How to Talk to Engines

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