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The ability to attack successfully is a necessary skill for the ambitious chess player. Here are three tips to help you with launching your attacks:1)Try to involve as many pieces as possible into the...

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     Time trouble can plague even the best players in the world, and often leads to painful blunders and losses on time in winning positions. In order to improve your time manageme...

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Every chess game begins with an opening, which means that when reviewing your own games, it's important to analyze what happened in the first few moves. Here are three ways to improve your openings:1)...

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Books are indeed man's best friend. They are the heartbeat of the soul. They provide you a good box of knowledge taking care that your valueable time is indulged in productive things. On taking into t...

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Which piece is better; the bishop or the knight?  Walk into any room with amateur chess players and everyone will know.  Or so they think.  The evidence they present for their case is n...

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For the most part, tournament chess is played with the same rules as casual chess. If you’re not sure how the pieces move or what the object of the game is, start here and brush up on the&...

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Bughouse is quite possibly the most popular chess variant in the world. You'll see it being played -- especially by children -- in skittles rooms and side events at any major tournament...

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Checkers is actually the American version of an internationally popular game called Draughts (pronounced "drafts") which has a number of different variants. The game is incredibly old and has a fascin...

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Getting bored of playing the same defensive games as black? Do you want to make your game more interesting and worth playing?We recommend you to take a look at the Hyper Accelerated Dragon. For some o...

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Sounds funny as well as exciting right!Well emoji’s are like the emoticons which not fully but partially represents the feeling of a person virtually. We need them to express to the person who is fa...

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