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Keith posted an update 2 months ago
Judit Polgar story
Highly recommend Queen of Chess documentary on Netflix! Judit is a real class act!
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Agreed! I just finished it.
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Likewise, it was really good!!!
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Billy H posted an update 2 months ago
I just reached 1400 in chess.com Rapid, up from ~1100 when I bought the course! Thanks Nelson!
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Congratulations!
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Well done!
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Nice, good job! 🙂
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Keith posted an update 2 months ago
Wish they were all so pretty
Check out this #chess game: armyguy63b vs TDentonEsquire – https://www.chess.com/game/164289800300
Good game to my opponent!
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Excellent catch of that checkmate setup!
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Well done!!
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Keith posted an update 2 months ago
How to lose a drawn game
Don’t be the guy who gives up a bishop like I did. Good game to my opponent!
Check out this #chess game: Rdx-arpan vs armyguy63b – https://www.chess.com/game/live/164140154422chess.com
Chess: Rdx-arpan vs armyguy63b
Rdx-arpan (984) vs armyguy63b (988). Rdx-arpan won by resignation in 70 moves. Click to review the game, move by move.
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Very strange opening by your opponent.
Your opponent ended with a bad blunder and you could have drawn if you hadn’t resigned. The promoted queen was undefended, he couldn’t have checkmated with just his lone bishop.
Always take a good review of the position and verify that it was actually hopeless before resigning. Unfortunately that is…
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Team-ChessVibes posted an update 2 months ago
Course Reset Option Now Available
Hello everyone,
If you’d like to reset the course after completing it, you can now do so by clicking the “Reset Course Progress” button in Lesson 10.7.
You may also access it directly using this link (please make sure you’re logged in…
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Thank you, Nelson.
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Jamie posted an update 2 months ago
Blundering and carrying on.
One of the important lessons Nelson reminds us to do is to see what has changed when your opponent makes a move. I neglected to do that in this game when my opponent, playing black, moved his bishop to g5 on move #26. I was so focused on mating him, that I missed that his rook was protecting the mating square after he moved the bishop and…
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Chess: Buttoneer vs Pashodwinter
Buttoneer (1369) vs Pashodwinter (1079). Black to move. Game in progress. 35 moves over 1 week. Moving into the endgame — how many moves left? Click to review the game, move by move.
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Good to see you didn’t just resign after the blunder. Best of luck with the rest of the game.
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Congratulations! Just don’t make a habit of recreating Nelson’s short lived “blunders rating climb”! 🙂
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Charles posted an update 2 months ago
Course disappeared?!?!
Did anyone lose the Breaking 1500 courses?
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I did not lose it.
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The entry screen changed because Nelson is migrating his earlier courses to this site, but Breaking 1500 is still there.
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Hello Charles!
Here are instructions to login to the course:
1. Open a browser like Google Chrome or Safari on your computer and then go to the following link: https://chessvibes.net/login. (I recommend saving this URL to your browser so that you can access it easily when you go back to the course)
2. Input your email and password, then…
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Finally broke 1500 Elo!!!
After many battles… 1500 Elo achieved.. Thanks to Nelson & his team… @ChessVibes
Here is the last game
nandan_24 vs FoxDelTango2026 – https://www.chess.com/live/game/148376050018chess.com
Chess: nandan_24 vs FoxDelTango2026
nandan_24 (1510) vs FoxDelTango2026 (1503). nandan_24 won by checkmate in 41 moves. Click to review the game, move by move.
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Congratulations on breaking 1500! Also reaching the goal on a very well played game.
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How many years did it take you?
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Keith posted an update 2 months ago
Crazy win. Lucky too.
Tried to win a pawn at move 8 without a blunder check. Lucked out on this one. Just figured to go down swinging. Good game to my opponent! Check out this #chess game: Bokvera76 vs armyguy63b – https://www.chess.com/game/148141469218
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Keith posted an update 2 months ago
Fastest checkmate I've ever had.
Lucky me lol. Good game to my opponent.
Check out this #chess game: prmil2 vs armyguy63b – https://www.chess.com/game/148021366280
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Your opponent played that opening line often, surprised he hadn’t seen that problem before.
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