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Improve your chess through solving tactical puzzles, studying the games of the masters, and playing chess.

Saturday, January 1, 2011 World's Top 20 PlayersAs of Jan 1, 2011, the world's top 20 players according to FIDE rating are:


1 Carlsen, Magnus
2 Anand, Viswanathan
3 Aronian, Levon
4 Kramnik, Vladimir
5 Karjakin, Sergey
6 Topalov, Veselin
7 Grischuk, Alexander
8 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
9 Ivanchuk, Vassily
10 Nakamura, Hikaru
11 Ponomariov, Ruslan
12 Radjabov, Teimour
13 Gashimov, Vugar
14 Wang, Yue
15 Nepomniachtchi, Ian
16 Gelfand, Boris
17 Wang, Hao
18 Svidler, Peter
19 Kamsky, Gata
20 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw

Carlsen remains at the top. Other notable players: Anand went from 3rd to 2nd, Kramnik went from 5th to 4th, Topalov dropped 2nd to 6th since my last post of World Rankings.Posted byKenat8:40 AMNo comments: Sunday, September 26, 2010 Improve Your Rating by 400 PointsWhile this statement is aimed at chess players rated at about 1400 (USCF), the idea can be used by most chess players to improve their rating. Once again, I want to beat my drum about studying chess puzzles to improve your chess strength. Why?

As Michael de la Maza of www.Chesscafe.com states in his article "400 points in 400 days" (Part 1 Part 2), and his observation is backup by GM Jonathan Levitt and GM Nigel Davies,

"Chess knowledge is not the same as chess ability...and a player's chess ability is limited first and foremost by a lack of tactical ability."

And how does Michael recommend that you improve your chess ability? Doing Chess puzzles and in his articles he recommends a study plan that he developed.Posted byKenat8:08 AMNo comments: Monday, August 30, 2010 World's Top 10 PlayersWorld's Top 10 Rated Players (updated August 29, 2010)
Rank Name Rating
01 Carlsen 2826
02 Topalov 2803
03 Anand 2800
04 Aronian 2783
05 Kramnik 2780
06 Eljanov 2760
07 Grischuk 2760
08 Mamedyarov2755
09 Ivanchuk 2754
10 Gelfand 2750
Posted byKenat3:37 PMNo comments: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Mega Chess Book DatabaseHere is a link to DB Books (a mega chess book database). It must contain hundreds of chess books.Posted byKenat11:23 AMNo comments: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Links to Chess Tactics BooksIn studying tactics (videos and blog), I recommend 2 books. Here are links so you don't have to buy them, though I recommend it.

Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games (Laszlo Polgar)
1001 Brilliant Chess Sacrifices and Combinations (Reinfeld)



Posted byKenat11:03 AMNo comments: Saturday, August 7, 2010 Free Online Chess BooksChesszone.org offers a collection of English and Russian chess books in PDF or DJVU Viewer which include:


* J. R. Capablanca "Chess fundamentals"
* Edward Lasker "Chess Strategy"
* Pandolfini "Pandolfini's Endgame Course"Posted byKenat9:58 AMNo comments: Sunday, August 1, 2010 Submit your game for analysis on YouTubeI've had several requests to review submitted games. If you played a game that you think would be interesting or instructive, then please submit it to kensoffice.contact@gmail.com


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