Chess Improver

I wrote 63 chess instruction articles (2013–2015) for GM Nigel Davies' site ChessImprover.com, which is now defunct. 58 have been rescued from the Wayback Machine with interactive chess viewers. 5 articles could not be recovered.

58 posts

12/11/2014 A Reminder About The Strengths And Limitations Of Chess Engines
12/4/2014 Methodically Building An Endgame Fortress
11/27/2014 Blockading To Defend When Things Get Tough
11/20/2014 The Danger Of A King Out Of Play In The Endgame
11/13/2014 Anticipating The Endgame As Part Of Understanding The Opening
11/6/2014 The Art Of Attacking A Slightly Weakened King Side
10/30/2014 The Chess Improver: The common problem of following a pattern without understanding it
10/23/2014 The Chess Improver: Learning through comparing similar but different situations
10/16/2014 The Chess Improver: Basic endgames teach how to tie together mathematics and logic
10/9/2014 The Chess Improver: The temptation to play safe can prevent improvement
10/2/2014 The Chess Improver: Your Pawn is threatened: do you defend, advance, or trade?
9/18/2014 The Chess Improver: Accept the sacrifice if the alternative is to lose anyway
9/11/2014 The Chess Improver: The difference between a Knight developed at c3 and at d2
9/4/2014 The Chess Improver: Fianchettoing your King's Bishop may weaken your c4-Pawn
8/28/2014 The Chess Improver: What not to do if you have the isolated Pawn
8/14/2014 The Chess Improver: Beware of trying to win poisoned Pawns
8/7/2014 The Chess Improver: When weaknesses didn't matter (and when they did)
7/31/2014 The Chess Improver: An instructive ending with Bishop up for a Pawn
7/24/2014 The Chess Improver: How do you play against 1 h3?
7/17/2014 The Chess Improver: Pawn moves in front of Black's castled King: looking at h6 and f5
7/10/2014 The Chess Improver: Completing my first tournament: 7th round and summary of what I learned
7/3/2014 The Chess Improver: My 6th tournament game: an error that reveals an attempt to learn
6/26/2014 The Chess Improver: My 5th tournament game: lessons from an uncomfortable miniature
6/19/2014 The Chess Improver: My 4th tournament game: first time I attacked in the middlegame
6/12/2014 The Chess Improver: Lessons from my 3rd tournament game: the nature of endgames
6/5/2014 The Chess Improver: Lessons from my 2nd tournament game
5/29/2014 The Chess Improver: Is it worth studying your own games from thirty years ago?
5/22/2014 The Chess Improver: You don't have to be who you think you are
5/15/2014 The Chess Improver: Which Pawn would your rather live without and why?
5/8/2014 The Chess Improver: Try loving your Knights more than your Bishops
5/1/2014 The Chess Improver: Black takes control of the dark squares by grabbing the Bishop pair
4/24/2014 The Chess Improver: Is it OK to play a losing move in order to win?
4/17/2014 The Chess Improver: Ten reasons my winning game turned into a loss
4/10/2014 The Chess Improver: Development: doing it and disrupting it are sides of the same coin
3/20/2014 The Chess Improver: A scrappy example of psychology and luck in an ending
3/13/2014 The Chess Improver: Two positional Pawn sacrifices: one accidental
3/6/2014 The Chess Improver: A fantasy game, move by move: White opens with fifteen pawn moves in a row!
2/27/2014 The Chess Improver: The human problem of not mentally switching gears during a long game
2/20/2014 The Chess Improver: Your mission, should you choose to accept it: total restriction of activity
2/13/2014 The Chess Improver: A tale of three discovered attacks: a Zwischenzug feast!
2/6/2014 The Chess Improver: How not to play with the Bishop pair
1/30/2014 The Chess Improver: 9 lessons to learn from Bill Gates' 9 move loss to Magnus Carlsen
1/23/2014 The Chess Improver: Giving up a fianchettoed bishop to win a pawn may not be worthwhile
1/16/2014 The Chess Improver: What if your opponent just gives you twelve free moves?
1/9/2014 The Chess Improver: The subtleties of time-consuming knight maneuvers
12/26/2013 The Chess Improver: Imagining how a game position arose
12/19/2013 The Chess Improver: Making up fake games to improve understanding of themes
12/5/2013 The Chess Improver: The most beautiful opening trap ever, with its tempo twin
11/28/2013 The Chess Improver: Imagining that you can play ten moves in a row
11/14/2013 The Chess Improver: Whether an interesting opening idea is good or bad depends on context
11/7/2013 The Chess Improver: How to watch the Anand-Carlsen World Chess Championship to improve your own game
10/31/2013 The Chess Improver: The double-edged nature of computer-based preparation
10/24/2013 The Chess Improver: The computer plays the exchange sacrifice
10/18/2013 The Chess Improver: The strange pleasure of drawing a lost game
10/10/2013 The Chess Improver: the difference between accepting reality and making excuses
9/26/2013 The Chess Improver: the psychology of not winning the won game
9/19/2013 The Chess Improver: remember the importance of development
9/12/2013 My first post on The Chess Improver: The Value of Thematic Complete Games Against a Weaker Opponent