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Quan G posted a new activity comment

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:49:03 -0600

Hi Nelson,
Great course! The lessons are well organized and I can immediately find which thing I need to work on the most.
One question though is that I sometimes still miss a kind of “counterthreat” tactic: instead of dealing with a threat (e.g. an attack on a piece), we instead create an equal or even bigger threat for the opponent, so that… Read more

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Quan G posted an update: One nice thing about Section 4 is I can immediately […]

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 17:03:34 -0600

One nice thing about Section 4 is I can immediately figure out what is my weakest tactics. So far I have completed up to 4.10 and I actually worked out *all* the puzzles (even the master ones) except forks (which I screw up even the intermediate ones).

Quan G posted an update: In 4.2 there is a pattern where a queen defends a […]

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:45:07 -0600

In 4.2 there is a pattern where a queen defends a rook *through* the opponent’s king, delivering a checkmate. If I remember correctly, this is called an X-ray defense. But there are also more sophisticated patterns (like on Wikipedia which I could not get the idea). Maybe Nelson could talk about X-ray defenses or attacks in some separate video?

Quan G posted an update: Went through 3.5 and 3.6. I just noticed that Owen’s […]

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 07:16:08 -0600

Went through 3.5 and 3.6. I just noticed that Owen’s defense, Nimzo-Indian and French defense have very common ideas: white has pawns in d4 and e4, and knight on c3, while black has pawns in e6 and d5 and bishop on b4 pinning the knight. So I guess the same principle applies to all of them: c-pawns are important to open things up, black needs…

Quan G posted a new activity comment

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:53:03 -0600

Also, I’m pretty sure that chess.com will suddenly have lots of stonewall and Owen players. So maybe one wants to study how to counter them as well 🙂

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Just went through 3.3. I know that other than Owen’s defense (…b6 and …Bb7), there’s also Modern defense (…g6 …Bg7), which I guess has the same idea except that we fight for dark squares instead?

Quan G posted an update: Just went through 3.3. I know that other than Owen’s […]

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:46:55 -0600

Quan G posted an update: Moving on to the Stonewall setup in Module 2. One thing […]

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:03:06 -0600

Moving on to the Stonewall setup in Module 2. One thing to note is against the accelerated queen’s indian setup:

d4 Nf6 e3 b6 Bd3 Bb7 which attacks g2 pawn.

Then you cannot play f4. Still, you can play Nf3 to block and transpose into a Colle system.

Quan G posted an update: I just started the course and went through Module 1. […]

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:56:28 -0600

I just started the course and went through Module 1. The story in 1.6 really makes sense. Even a high-rated player can lose, and even losing to a low-rated player is not a big deal because that’s how games work. What I should do is to learn from the mistakes and improve, and nothing else.

P.S. I wonder how David and Robert are doing now.