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The Four Things
Every move does four things. Noticing all of them is critical for accurate calculations.
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What is Conceptualization?
The power of Conceptualization, and why I'm abandoning the word 'visualization'
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Chess Visualization and Aphantasia: A Guide
Aphantasia is not a weakness in Chess. It just requires a different approach.
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Finding Your Model
Two Biases
Don't try to copy other people's brains. Find how yours wants to work instead.
Intuition Series
Your Enthusiastic Friend
Treat your intuition like an enthusiastic friend rated 200 points below you.
Seven Slots
One Key Resource
Why our working memory is the most important resource we have in Chess.
Why Blindfold?
Seeing the Matrix Code
The origin story of Don't Move Until You See It.
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Everything Evolves
The Chess world is changing. Here's what we need to do to adapt.
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Know Your Why
We all need different things out of Chess, and "improvement" is not the answer for everyone.
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Train Your Brain
If we don't train the adult brain to handle Chess better, it will continue to let us down.
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Quality Over Quantity
How to make the most of your time studying Chess as an adult.
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Embrace Your Experience
The superpower of adult learning, and why you must connect the things you learn to things you already know.
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Start Where You Are
How to understand your adult brain so you can find Chess advice that will actually work for you.
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Masters vs Us
Why adult improvers feel something missing in the advice of Masters.
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Two Biases
Don't try to copy other people's brains. Find how yours wants to work instead.
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The Discipline to Start
If you start enough times, you'll eventually finish.
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Focus Comes First
Why focus is the first and most important part of learning anything.Especially, Chess.
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Gorillas In Our Midst
What gorilla?
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Breaking Plateaus
What Artificial Intelligence teaches us about pushing through stagnation in our Chess.
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