Chess in Small Doses

One Way to Play Better

Always Be Comparing

Oct 5 • 

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September 2025

Best of the Blog

Reviewing 2 1/2 years of my Substack

Sep 6 • 

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August 2025

Program Minimum

Evidence based chess training

Aug 31 • 

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Mountains Beyond Mountains

Chess improvement is an endless road.

Aug 24 • 

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Clearing the Fog

Years after a mental fog set in, suddenly it seems to have cleared

Aug 18 • 

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Basic, Simple Tactics

or, “How I added 180 ELO in 30 days with the Tetris Effect”

Aug 10 • 

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Offense and Defense

If "defense wins championships" why is to so difficult?

Aug 2 • 

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June 2025

Two Things

The flaw that lies in our thinking

Jun 17 • 

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It took me 5 years to learn this one thing

Is it better to be right or not wrong?

Jun 4 • 

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May 2025

5 years of #adultimprover

From the pandemic to today, reflecting on my journey

May 25 • 

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Analyzing Our Games

Maybe we're asking the wrong questions

May 14 • 

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April 2025

"Simple but not easy."

What I learned listening to GM Jacob Aagaard on a few podcasts

Apr 29 • 

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