You are playing a tournament and have defeated a lower rated opponent in the last round. You feel confident, satisfied, and enjoy your accomplishment for a while. You check the next round pairings with a smile on your face and are greated by a familiar feeling of missing a heartbeat. You are paired against aContinue reading “Winning against higher rated opponents”
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Visualization Training – II
In the first article on this topic we saw how we could visualize an entire chess board in our minds. So what next? Now, we come to the pieces. Piece Annotation King K Queen Q Rook R Bishop B Knight N Pawn – (The pawn has no annotation) From the previous article, we already knowContinue reading “Visualization Training – II”
Visualization Training
Until 1954 it was widely believed that a human couldn’t physically run a mile in under 4 minutes. It was just not humanly possible to do that. But everything changed on May 6, 1954 when Roger Bannister broke that myth and clocked a time of 3.59 minutes. Soon after on 21st June, 1954, John LandyContinue reading “Visualization Training”
Turtle soup and the chess robot
Vladimir Dvorlovich Cup, Moscow In 2014, I was selected to represent India at an invitational tournament for Under 17. The team consisted of three boys and one girl (Visakh, Vignesh, Krishna and I). It was unlike the normal World and Asian events. Never had I played such event before, so everything was surreal for me.Continue reading “Turtle soup and the chess robot”
A leap of faith
My first opportunity ever to travel to Europe for tournaments came in February, 2016. I played two tournaments in France where I crossed 2000 Elo for the first time. I remember flying into Paris along with my friends on the first day and we were greeted by the cold European weather in its element. WeContinue reading “A leap of faith”