Fast and Furious: Tales from the World Youth
10/17/2019 – In this episode IM Robert Ris recaps his adventures as a coach at the World Youth in Mumbai. The live show at 17:00 UTC (19:00 CEST / 1 PM EDT) is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders (but FREE for a limited time!). To chat, please visit videos.chessbase.com/live or login via Playchess for Windows. In the diagram, it's White to play and win!
Special attention will be paid to Intermediate Moves, Quiet Moves, Sacrifices on Empty Squares, Mating Patterns, Ignoring Opponents Threat, Calculation in Defence and Method of Comparison. Plus 50 interactive examples to test your knowledge.
Ris returns
My student Eline Roebers (The Netherlands Girls U-14) was leading the field by half a point after nine rounds, though two very unfortunate losses threw her back in the rankings and eventually she ended up on the sixth place.
In this episode of the Fast & Furious show I will reveal some sharp opening systems we discussed in our preparation, our general approach challenging the opponent and my role as a coach throughout the event.
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Sicilian Sveshnikov Powerbook 2019
The greater part of the material on which the Sicilian Sveshnikov Powerbook 2019 is based, comes from the engine room in playchess.com: 193 000 games. This imposing number has been supplemented with another 12 000 games from the Mega Database and from cor
Warming-up exercise: What would you play here with Black?
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The Chess Player's Mating Guide Vol.1 and The Chess Player's Mating Guide Vol.2
The attention will be paid to the castled king and in particular on ways of exploiting the weakened kingside. Several well-known themes, pawnformations and other attacking weapons are covered in 8 chapters.
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Special attention will be paid to Intermediate Moves, Quiet Moves, Sacrifices on Empty Squares, Mating Patterns, Ignoring Opponents Threat, Calculation in Defence and Method of Comparison. Plus 50 interactive examples to test your knowledge.
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