- The powerful e5 Pawn break against the Benoni: using it as White, neutralizing it as Black
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chessChess Summit
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- On finally achieving the US National Master chess title at age 45: part 1
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chessPittsburgh Chess Club
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- If you were this old man playing chess against a young boy, what would you have done?
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chess
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- Clever chess tactics that were not what they seemed
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Pittsburgh Chess Clubchesspsychology
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- The importance of stalemate in chess: how chess is completely different from life
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chessstalematecreativity
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- Thoughts on giving up an old project to make room for the new
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chesswritingteachinglearning
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- Report on my second day of Stoic Week 2014: mindfulness
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philosophyStoicismStoic WeekexercisemeditationmindfulnesspsychologychessPittsburgh Chess Club
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- My predictions after Carlsen and Anand are tied after round 4 of the World Chess Championship
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan Anandpsychology
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- My predictions and hopes for the 2014 Carlsen-Anand world chess championship rematch
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan Anandpsychology
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- Things look different from the perspective of the professional and the spectator
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chessSam Shankland
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- The Chess Improver: The common problem of following a pattern without understanding it
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Learning through comparing similar but different situations
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Basic endgames teach how to tie together mathematics and logic
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: The temptation to play safe can prevent improvement
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Your Pawn is threatened: do you defend, advance, or trade?
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Accept the sacrifice if the alternative is to lose anyway
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: The difference between a Knight developed at c3 and at d2
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Fianchettoing your King's Bishop may weaken your c4-Pawn
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: What not to do if you have the isolated Pawn
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: For the love of doubled Pawns
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- The Chess Improver: Beware of trying to win poisoned Pawns
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: When weaknesses didn't matter (and when they did)
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- The Chess Improver: An instructive ending with Bishop up for a Pawn
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- The Chess Improver: How do you play against 1 h3?
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Pawn moves in front of Black's castled King: looking at h6 and f5
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Completing my first tournament: 7th round and summary of what I learned
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: My 6th tournament game: an error that reveals an attempt to learn
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: My 5th tournament game: lessons from an uncomfortable miniature
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: My 4th tournament game: first time I attacked in the middlegame
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Lessons from my 3rd tournament game: the nature of endgames
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Lessons from my 2nd tournament game
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Is it worth studying your own games from thirty years ago?
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: You don't have to be who you think you are
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Which Pawn would your rather live without and why?
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Try loving your Knights more than your Bishops
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Black takes control of the dark squares by grabbing the Bishop pair
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Is it OK to play a losing move in order to win?
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Ten reasons my winning game turned into a loss
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Development: doing it and disrupting it are sides of the same coin
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- The Chess Improver: Back to basics: mere development
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: A scrappy example of psychology and luck in an ending
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Two positional Pawn sacrifices: one accidental
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: A fantasy game, move by move: White opens with fifteen pawn moves in a row!
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: The human problem of not mentally switching gears during a long game
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Your mission, should you choose to accept it: total restriction of activity
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: A tale of three discovered attacks: a Zwischenzug feast!
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: How not to play with the Bishop pair
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: 9 lessons to learn from Bill Gates' 9 move loss to Magnus Carlsen
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chessMagnus Carlsen
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- The Chess Improver: Giving up a fianchettoed bishop to win a pawn may not be worthwhile
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: What if your opponent just gives you twelve free moves?
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: The subtleties of time-consuming knight maneuvers
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- The Chess Improver: Imagining how a game position arose
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Making up fake games to improve understanding of themes
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- The Chess Improver: The most beautiful opening trap ever, with its tempo twin
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chess
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- The Chess Improver: Imagining that you can play ten moves in a row
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chess
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- World Chess Championship 2013 round 10: Magnus Carlsen is the new world champion
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan AnandSicilian DefenseMaróczy BindHedgehog Defense
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- World Chess Championship 2013 round 9: I correctly predicted Anand's aggressively opening choice but he blundered horribly again to lose
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan AnandNimzo-Indian DefenseQueen's Indian Defense
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- The Chess Improver: The power of White's Pawn on e6
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chess
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- World Chess Championship 2013 round 8: the most boring game in the match so far
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan AnandBerlin Defense
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- World Chess Championship 2013 round 7: Anand catches his breath with a quiet game
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan AnandBerlin Defense
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- World Chess Championship 2013, round 6: Carlsen wins the second game in a row when Anand blunders again in a drawn ending
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan AnandBerlin Defense
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- World Chess Championship 2013, round 5: Carlsen wins in a tense positional battle when Anand blunders!
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan AnandSemi-Slav
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- The Chess Improver: Whether an interesting opening idea is good or bad depends on context
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chess
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- World Chess Championship 2013, round 4: who said the Berlin Defense was boring?
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan AnandBerlin Defense
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- The exact moment I fell in love with the Berlin Defense for Black in chess
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chessBerlin Defense
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- World Chess Championship 2013, round 3: a fighting game worth studying
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan AnandRéti OpeningGrünfeld DefenseSicilian DefenseMaróczy Bind
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- World Chess Championship 2013, Round 2: declining the sacrifice
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan Anand
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- World Chess Championship 2013 Round 1: how to understand the short 16-move Carlsen-Anand draw
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chessWorld Chess ChampionshipMagnus CarlsenViswanathan AnandRéti OpeningGrünfeld Defense
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- The Chess Improver: How to watch the Anand-Carlsen World Chess Championship to improve your own game
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chessMagnus CarlsenViswanathan Anand
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- The Chess Improver: The double-edged nature of computer-based preparation
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chesscomputers
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- The Chess Improver: The computer plays the exchange sacrifice
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chesscomputers
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- The Chess Improver: The strange pleasure of drawing a lost game
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chessPittsburgh Chess Club
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- The Chess Improver: the difference between accepting reality and making excuses
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chessPittsburgh Chess Club
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- 9 things you could be doing in Pittsburgh on Saturday, October 5
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PittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubchessprogrammingPerlPittsburgh Perl WorkshopRun ShadysiderunningukuleleSteel City UkulelesEcofestmusicragtimeLatin musicRegent SquarePodCamp PittsburghCarnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh Step TrekSouth Side Slopes
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- The Chess Improver: the psychology of losing a drawn game
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chessPittsburgh Chess Club
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- First rehearsal for my first ukulele gig: dealing with anxiety
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musicukuleleSteel City UkulelesRegent Squaresingingmarching bandballroom danceCarnegie Mellon Universityrecorderchess
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- The Chess Improver: the psychology of not winning the won game
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chessPittsburgh Chess Club
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- The Chess Improver: remember the importance of development
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chessPittsburgh Chess Club
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- Saying No: on not playing in the Pittsburgh Chess League this season for the CMU Tartans
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chessPittsburgh Chess LeagueCarnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburghPittsburgh Chess Club
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- My first post on The Chess Improver: The Value of Thematic Complete Games Against a Weaker Opponent
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chesslearningPittsburgh Chess Club
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- Another unexpected life change: one month of learning to play ukulele
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musicukuleleSteel City UkulelesPittsburghRubySteel City RubyJim WeirichrecorderchessAprès un rêveviola da gambafluteJake Shimabukurobanjolelebanjo
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- I miss playing chess at the Pittsburgh Chess Club
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chessPittsburgh
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- More summer musical partying, and another ten-year-old dream fulfilled!
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musicfluterecorderbass recorderBaroque flutepianoduetchessarm wrestlingpullupschinupsJohann Sebastian BachGeorge Philipp TelemannGabriel FauréAprès un rêveRoland de Lassus
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- Celebrating the victory of the CMU Tartans in the 2012-13 Pittsburgh Chess League season
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chessPittsburgh Chess LeagueCarnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh
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- RIP Robert Byrne, American chess grandmaster and columnist who gave my childhood meaning
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- A comeback from Pittsburgh Marathon overtraining
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runningovertrainingPittsburgh MarathonPittsburghFiveFingersLuna SandalsCathedral of LearningSteel City Road RunnersShadysideTrue RunnerOaklandAlexander techniqueVonda WrightGatoradeGUchessPittsburgh Chess League
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- My second ever blindfold chess game
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chessmemory
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- Finally doing some Latin music jamming on flute; also Irish and French
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musicfluteLatin musicjazzboleroDos GardeniasBuena Vista Social ClubIbrahim Ferrercha chaIrish flutetin whistleFrenchrecorderchess
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- Pittsburgh Chess Club Championship 2013, Round 6: Winning as Black like a madman!
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess Club
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- Pittsburgh Chess Club Championship 2013, Round 5: Surprised at move 4 of the opening!
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess Club
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- Pittsburgh Chess Club Championship 2013, Round 4: fascinating attacking-defending game!!
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubDutch Defense
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- Pittsburgh Chess Club Championship 2013, Round 3: attack, defense, and sacrifices
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess Club
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- An unexpected afternoon tour: 9 miles of running, 1 Cathedral of Learning stair climb, 2 chess tournaments
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chessexerciserunningCathedral of LearningPittsburghhikingRachel Carson Trail ChallengePittsburgh MarathonSteel City Road Runners
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- Why and how I am going to run the 2013 Pittsburgh Marathon
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runningmarathonPittsburgh MarathonPittsburghFiveFingersXero ShoesCarnegie Mellon UniversitychessRachel Carson Trail ChallengeSteel City Road Runners
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- Pittsburgh Chess Club Championship 2013, Round 2: surviving time trouble
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubpsychologySicilian Defense
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- Modern chess: computers shutting down opening theory, part 2
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chesscomputersViswanathan AnandSemi-Slav
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- Pittsburgh Chess Club Championship 2013, Round 1: the art of swindling
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chessPittsburgh Chess ClubPittsburghNimzo-Indian Defense
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- How the best player won the last Pittsburgh Chess Club Tuesday night tournament
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess Clubpsychology
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- The special bond between children and their fathers, through chess
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chessfatherchildhood
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- Round 6 of Pittsburgh Chess Club tournament: playing pragmatically
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubpsychologyNimzo-Indian Defensesick
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- Round 5 of Pittsburgh Chess Club Tournament: psychology of losing another won game
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubpsychologySicilian Defense
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- Round 4 of Pittsburgh Chess Club tournament: the agony of losing a won game against the difficult opponent
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess Club
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- A short note on the use of chess opening books
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chesscomputersbooksVeresov Opening
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- Round 3 of Pittsburgh Chess Club tournament: the difficult opponent, and revenge of the Bishop
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubVeresov Opening
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- Round 2 of Pittsburgh Chess Club Tournament: Very short game with a note on psychology
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubGrünfeld Defense
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- Round 1 of Pittsburgh Chess Club tournament: revenge of the Knight
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubSicilian Defense
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- Pittsburgh Chess League Round 3: back to chess after a month off
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess LeaguePittsburgh Chess Club
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- Pittsburgh Chess League Round 2: natural moves are often bad
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess League
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- Final round of Pittsburgh Chess Club tournament: clawing back from a terrible position to draw and tie for first
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubPhilidor Defense
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- Round 5 of Pittsburgh Chess Club Tournament: On Benoni "Emasculation" and Learning
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubSicilian DefenseEnglish OpeningMaróczy BindBenonilearning
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- The worst chess move I ever played: why did I do that?
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chess
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- A fact of modern chess: computers shutting down opening theory
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chesscomputersSemi-Slav
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- Round 3 of Pittsburgh Chess Club tournament: another approach against the Sicilian: squeezing with the Bind
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubSicilian DefenseMaróczy Bind
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- Excited by the new season of the Pittsburgh Recorder Society
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musicrecorderPittsburgh Recorder SocietyPittsburghPalestrinaViadanachessGeorge Frideric HandelGeorg Philipp Telemann
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- Déja vu in chess: recognize this Sicilian pattern?
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubSicilian Defensepsychology
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- Round 2 of the Pittsburgh Chess Club tournament: winning in the Sicilian Defense; the philosophy and psychology of struggle
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess ClubSicilian Defense
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- Round 1 of the Pittsburgh Chess Club tournament: the Greek gift sacrifice
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chessPittsburghPittsburgh Chess Club
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- Why I do not play chess online: chess as a human activity
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chessPittsburgh Chess ClubPittsburghfatherchildhood
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- Returning to chess, part 2: rejoining the Pittsburgh Chess Club and signing up for my sixth Fred Sorensen Memorial tournament
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chessPittsburghJava
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- Returning to chess, a lifetime sport: playing in the Pittsburgh Chess League
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chessPittsburghCarnegie Mellon University
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- The paradox of practice: it's harder to go slow than go fast
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practicemusicchessrunningballroom danceCarnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburghLatin music
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- Why I am grateful that my father never let me win a chess game against him
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childhoodchesslearningfatherchildhood
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- They published my brilliant chess game, hinting it was not so original, but was it?
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chesscreativityoriginalitylearningSicilian Defensefather
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- Life lessons I learned from a lunch recess chess game at age seven: the prequel with a classmate
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chessschoolfatherchildhood
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- Some pretty attacking chess at a party last weekend
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chessnephewBenoni
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- Life lessons I learned from a lunch recess chess game at age seven
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chesscomputersschoolfather
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- A delayed St. Patrick's Day party: playing tin whistle and alto recorder
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musicflutetin whistlerecorderIrish musicchessSt. Patrick's DayGeorg Philipp Telemann
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- Saying No in order to say Yes
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time managementmeditationdanceexercisemusicfluterecorderaccordionchessCarnegie Mellon University
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- On playing my first games of chess in a year
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chesspracticePittsburgh
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- A new friend's very musical birthday party changed my life
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musicchessPittsburghflute
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- Disagreement on the use of time?
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time managementrecordermusicreadingwritingexerciserunningyogastrength trainingprogrammingcommunicatingdialoguechessballroom danceScala
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