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Chess master Brad Lundstrom takes on an entire class at Resurrection Christia...
20 May 2013 at 10:24pm
Brad Lundstrom, center, walks around the middle of a circle of desks while playing chess games in an exhibition format against Resurrection Christian School ...

Practice makes perfect? Not so much
20 May 2013 at 3:15pm
New research led by Michigan State University's Zach Hambrick finds that a copious amount of practice is not enough to explain why people differ in level of ...

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 En Passant (chess weblog)
Knight Forks
24 Oct 2008 at 8:22pm
Here's a video I found on YouTube that does a great job of illustrating knight forks. Most of it is pretty elementary, but at the end, it shows a great examp...

Queens Gambit Game With Analysis
10 Oct 2008 at 11:06am
Here's a nice queens gambit game with analysis and lots of nice little pointers. What really struck me was how strong white's outpost position at B6 was -- w...

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