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Champion Psychology from the Martial Arts

Posted on May 5, 2013

Chess players feel nervous before and/or during a game. This has a serious influence on your results.

In the previous lesson, I’ve published a message from a student who used the power of a proper psychological attitude: LINK

We know that in critical situations, some people demonstrate extraordinary performance, while others become feeble. How can YOU adopt the right approach?

Let’s see how masters of martial arts overcome fear and nervousness. They take a serious risk while participating in sporting competitions. Thus they need really powerful techniques.

By the way, chess is a model of war, so we may make this comparison.

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Successful Experience

Posted on April 22, 2013

During the last months we’ve been working on developing a new opening course. This work takes all my time, and that’s why I haven’t published any new free lessons recently.

Nevertheless, I just want to say “Hi!” to you , and to ask how things are going at your end. You are welcome to let me know about your recent chess achievements in comments below.

By the way, in the comments area of the recent article “5 Tips Taken From the Best Chess Course”, (link) one student shared his successful experience. I’d like to paste our little conversation here. If you read it carefully, you’ll notice a lot of useful practical advice.

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Ukraine Wins Women’s World Championship

Posted on March 19, 2013

Several days ago, the Women’s World Team Championship finished. The final results were:

Ukraine
China
Russia

A useful question we can ask ourselves is, “WHY are some teams on the podium, while others cannot reach it?”

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5 Tips Taken From The Best Chess Course On The Internet

Posted on March 6, 2013

This article contains 5 important tips that will facilitate your chess learning and advancing. The material is prepared by a student of our Remote Chess Academy. He summarized the ideas that worked well for him. There’s a great chance that these tips will be helpful for you just as well.

Without further ado let me present an article of Louis Holtzhausen.

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The tips are from the chess courses of GM Igor Smirnov

Chess Course Tip 1: The main idea of a chess game is activity

Isn’t it strange that even after studying a chess course – many chess players still can’t tell you what the main idea of a chess game is?

This is bad because how are you supposed to make good moves if you are not even sure what the main goals are? Once you know that you need to maximize the activity of your pieces, everything else will start to make a lot more sense.

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Eastern Style

Posted on February 23, 2013

I just came back from my trip to UAE (United Arab Emirates) and would like to share 1 interesting observation with you.

Although there are not many professional chess players in Arabic countries, a lot of people enjoy this game. I mean they really ENJOY it.

People gather in a café, play chess, drink tea or coffee, and sometimes smoke shisha (it’s smoking equipment where smoke goes through the water). It looks like this: