This past Wednesday I celebrated the one year birthday of the Tactics Time Chess Tactics E-mail newsletter! It was one year ago that I started sending out chess e-mail newsletters. I wrote a special newsletter to celebrate the occasion. When … Continue reading
Last weekend I played in the USCF rated side event to the Colorado vs. New Mexico team challenge in Fountain, Colorado. The team event was a great idea where each state had a team of players, one from each class. … Continue reading
There has been a lot going on in the chess world these days! The US Chess Championship just finished up over the weekend, the US Women’s Chess Championship finished on Monday in an exciting playoff match, and the World Chess … Continue reading
Here is the April 2012 Tactics Time Chess Tactics Column that appeared in the Colorado Chess Informant Magazine, which comes out 4 times a year. Fred Spell is the editor, and does an outstanding job. You can read the full … Continue reading
Below is the January 2012 Tactics Time Chess Tactics Column that appeared in the Colorado Chess Informant magazine, which you can read online for free here: http://www.coloradochess.com/informant/January%202012.pdf. Click the image to open the column in PDF format. Included are games … Continue reading
I have had many names and forms. ~ Chaitanya Neuhaus Chai Neuhaus, an active chess player from Boulder Colorado recently passed away. In the position below, from one of Chai’s games, it is White to move Answer below. White to Move … Continue reading
I got a couple of questions lately on some of the chess tactics in my newsletter e-mails, and thought I would answer some of them here, because chances are that other readers might have had similar questions. Yesterday for Mother’s … Continue reading
The US Chess Championship is currently being played at the beautiful Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. The website is http://uschesschamps.com, and they even have live coverage with Jennifer Shahade and Ben Finegold giving “play by play”, analysis … Continue reading
Today I want to talk about an idea related to learning called the the “conscious competence” learning model, and how it can be applied to your study of chess tactics. From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence) The conscious competence model relates to … Continue reading