Another 120 mates were offered to me by the spaced repetition system of Chessable. I solved them all without a mistake, and noticed that I needed to ...

 I haven't decided yet whether compositions of mate in two can have any use in the process of learning skills. On the one hand, the positions are not ...

 After a few #2 compositions, I stumbled upon this beauty. I certainly can appreciate the highly sophisticated position. It is an extreme zugzwang ...

TacticsIt took me 23 years to get the essence of transformation of knowledge into skill. The obvious area to apply my method is tactics. Tactics are part ...

We are all familiar with the idea to attack two weaknesses mutually. But being familiar is not the same as absorbing the associated patterns.Black to ...

 What have I learned from the past few posts and their comments?There is little competition on the way to chess improvement. If guys even in 60 years don't ...

 I'm working on this one already for a few hours. I feel that this puzzle is ideally suited to develop some consistent logical thoughts about tempi.White ...

 black to moveZoom outSalient point: double attack 1.Qxd4 >>Ne5 AND >>Ra1 Zoom inLogic: How can white defend that? 1. . . . Bc3 defends both ...

Diagnosis I focus on tactical positions that are solvable with the aid of the tree of scenarios. To keep matters simple for now, that excludes counter ...

 What is paramount now is the hunt for salient cues. We can divide a combination into sections. The cleaner we SEE the separate sections, the better. From ...