Chess Journeys: Tales of Adult Improvement

This week I made a recap of my recent Memorial Day tournament. There are highs and lows and everything in between. Chessbook: chessbook.com/?ref=kevin Chessiverse Code: DrSCULL20 Check out my new...

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This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with Landyn. He’s recently gained 300 points in a few months by playing a lot of tournaments and studying. We talked about the woodpecker method and checkmates pat...

11 Kesä 52min

This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with Chuck. He wears a lot of hats in the chess world. He runs the San Diego Chess Club, organizes many big events, and plays in over 200 rated games per year! We ...

4 Kesä 1h

This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with Misha. He plays with me on Tuesday nights at the Santa Monica Bay Chess Club. We covered his improvement journey from 1000 to 1900. We covered many topics suc...

28 Touko 1h 21min

This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with GM Noel Studer. As always, Noel came ready to share the good stuff. We talked about his newest project, real chess training. It’s a weekly set of calculation ...

21 Touko 1h 30min

This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with Carl. We covered a lot of ground such as taking breaks, the value of tactics, OTB play, and ratings. We had an extended conversation about Chessbook, and how ...

14 Touko 1h 36min

This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with Bill. We talked about his climb from 1000-2000 on Chesscom. We discussed his tendency to go too deep and then take breaks from chess. Bill spoke passionately ...

7 Touko 1h 10min

This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with Martin. He played OTB chess as a child and young adult. Then as life got busy, he moved to correspondence chess, where he achieved the IM title. He came back ...

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