Chess The Great Equalizer
The format defines the process used to determine how players are selected to play each other. Chess tournaments use these formats to identify the players who played the best at a tournament. Every sport or competitive event has to have some process of determining a champion.
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This particular post will focus on helping you understand the implications and etiquette that go along with playing a tournament with a specific time control. After reading this you will be able to read a tournament announcement and understand the biggest variable in any tournament which is the time control.
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I’ve saved one of my favorite pieces of chess equipment for last. The clock! Maybe it’s the engineer in me,
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Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed this series so far and are playing some chess. One of the great things about chess is
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We are close to sitting down and playing our first game! The next step in this journey is learning how
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Did you get an awesome board? Check! Did you get some sweet chessmen? Check! A Knight By Any Other Name
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Let’s get physical. In this post, we will cover the physical characteristics of what I believe make good chessmen. We
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Starting Off On The Right Foot What I’ve noticed is that when people are teaching chess to beginners they skip
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Pros: My initial impression is that Learning Spiral: A New Way to Teach and Study Chess by Kevin Cripe is
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Hi, I’m The Chess Dragon, the Chief creator of the Chess Dragon Academy, and in this series, I’m going to
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