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I Want to Show You Something I’ve Been Building (opens the original)
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One book series I like is Yusupov’s ‘Build Up Your Chess’. You work on a real position, write your analysis down in full, then check if your analysis was correct. The writing down is the training and holds you accoutable. You are awarded for seeing the full solution. The moment you have to commit a line, you find out whether you actually calculated it or just made an educated guess.Online puzzle sites reward the correct guess as highly as the correct analysis. Make a move, and if it’s right the
"You have been in time trouble for fourteen years.." (opens the original)
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I’m in the process of getting through the backlog of chess podcasts I have missed during the summer. This is not normal for me, but I have not been grinding chess in 2026. So, there is now a backlog that I need to attend to.One of the missed episodes is this one from ChessDojo:Thanks for reading Say Chess! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<
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