HeyJaredChess in Small Doses
A blog about the (mostly) harmless pursuit of chess improvement as an adult
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The One Rule to Rule Them All (opens the original)
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(TL; DR - In this post I’m breaking down the blunder check and how I’ve made it simpler)Welcome back to Chess in Small Doses, a Substack about adult improvement in chess. Today I’m talking about my struggles with blunders. Everyone knows that we need to perform a blunder check before we move. However many improvers, myself included, struggle to consistently do it. Every time someone tells me I need to perform a blunder check I think of Dwight from The Office.Whenever I’m about to do something I
What I Wish I'd Known (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Chess in Small Doses, a Substack about adult improvement in chess. Today I’m looking back to see what (if anything) I would have done differently knowing what I know now. There’s actually a lot. What I wish I’d known back then turns out to be a framework for adult improvement at almost anything. What is so hard about chess improvement is that many of the most effective steps are almost the opposite of what adults are naturally inclined to do. Disappointing in one sense, but uplif
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