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L2C 066: How to Study Puzzles and tactics to Actually Improve Your Chess Game

If you have ever listened to any chess improvement advisors, you have undoubtably heard that to improve at chess you need to improve your tactics, especially early on in your chess journey. Some have even said that chess is 99% tactics at this point or that tactics is all/everything you need to do to improve. We aren't sure that it is that extreme, but it is definitely one of the most important aspects of chess and critical at all levels.

One thing that is not often discussed is how best to study tactics. We have evolved over the past few years and have a pretty solid way to study tactics. Much of it is derived from the advice of coaches, grandmasters, YouTube, books etc. But we also had a few aspects that we added ourselves. While this is not definitively the best way to study tactics and puzzles, we think it is. If we ever come up with further improvements and refinements, we will add them to future episodes.

Also, remember we are currently offering this "chess prescription" service to you and if you'd like our opinions, please send in a game with white, a game with black, and a brief (or long), summary of your current level and anything you wish to share about your game and goals.

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L2C 064: Our Chess Prescriptions For Each Other

It is here, the episode where The Doctor gets to tell Bill what to do to improve his chess game. And, Bill gets to tell the Doctor what he has to do to improve his. The best part about it is that they both have to do what the other says. Since we both know each other's games very well, this should lead to improvement in how we paly or at least fill a few more holes in our games.

Also, remember we are currently offering this service to you and if you'd like our opinions, please send in a game with white, a game with black, and a brief, or long, summary of your current level and anything you wish to share about your game and goals.

Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discuss an area you are interested in? Let us know at [email protected]

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L2C 065: Listener Emails and Bill's Latest OTB Tournament at Marywood

The Doctor (and I) love nothing more than emails from our listeners. This episode starts off we a few of our more recent emails, including one from our first listener prescription request. We then go into a quick review of Bill's latest OTB tournament at Marywood.

Also, remember we are currently offering this "chess prescription" service to you and if you'd like our opinions, please send in a game with white, a game with black, and a brief (or long), summary of your current level and anything you wish to share about your game and goals.

Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discuss an area you are interested in? Let us know at [email protected]

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L2C 063: Dr Can Kabadayi on Learning Chess

World Class Chess Instructor and prolific author of multiple award winning Chessable Courses Dr Can Kabadayi joins the podcast and we discuss a few of the more important aspects of learning chess by applying Dr Can's background in cognitive science and experience as a chess coach to help you get better at the game of chess. It was a fantastic episode and we can't wait to have Dr Can back on the podcast for part 2 of hopefully many, many more discussions.

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L2C 062: Our Top Ten Things That Did Not Help Our Chess - Yet

Top ten lists seem to be popular, so we decided to list the Top 10 Activities that we all have heard and likely tried that have not helped our chess game or helped our chess game the least to this point. This may not be the case as we improve, but to this point, here is our list.

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L2C 061: Patience in Chess

Bill gets up onto his soapbox for this one and tried to explain why patience in chess is so important but often overlooked in most chess areas of chess learning. The Doctor is underwhelmed initially and you will have to listen to find out if he eventually comes across to Bill's side of the argument. Please be prepared as Bill had done way too many tacticas on this day of recording.

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L2C 060: Tao of Chess and Bill's Latest OTB Tournament

On this week's episode, we try to squeeze in a double shot. We cover the chapter in the Tao of Chess on tempo. Then we go into the latest OTB tournament for Bill. Plus there is a few surprise items and Bill continues to lobby for The Doctor to go to the Charlotte Chess Center in October for a live, over the board tournament.

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L2C 059: IM Kostya Kavutskiy

We were honored to have International Master Kostya Kavutskiy on the podcast. We talked all things chess and the ChessDojo, as well as our usual digressions. Hopefully this will be a great introduction to Kostya and part one of many to come.

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L2C 058: AI Assistance in Chess Improvement and Listener Questions

The Doctor has been hard at work on his game and has become a big fan of working with AI to review his paly. He is primarily using a new to us website called ChesSigma and we he has found to be helpful to improve his game. Hopefully, we can go over the website in more depth in the future. We also go through a few recent listener questions.

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L2C 057: Chess Camp with the Chess Dojo

The Chess Dojo announced that they would be holding a camp helping players chess games. We were immediately interested but life schedules led to Bill being the only one of us to be able to attend. He had such a good time and learned so much, we had a need to share the experience the night the event ended. We apologize if Bill was more of a babbling idiot than normal bit it was a bit late in the evening and after the camp, he was pretty tired mentally, but very enthusiastic about the event and what he learned from the camp. So without further ado, as The Doctor always says, "Lets Go".

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