http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/ en-us 2009-11-06T05:11+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1257484415.shtml Every so often ChessVideos viewers will submit games or questions for discussion, and the resulting shows are often especially valuable. It's important to see master and grandmaster play - to see... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-11-06T05:11+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1256870688.shtml There is a thread where viewers can post games on the ChessVideos.tv website, and from time to time I present a show looking at the best games and most... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-10-30T02:10+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1256251509.shtml This week I conclude my look back at the State Championship with my last round win. After a very successful opening, I lost the thread for a moment or two and... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-10-22T22:10+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1255693664.shtml ... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-10-16T11:10+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1255049812.shtml ... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-10-09T00:10+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1254452661.shtml Here's an adventure of mine from last weekend. I won the game, but all three results were possible. It started with the tricky von Hennig-Schara Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-10-02T03:10+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1253937887.shtml Last week, I presented an old loss of mine to Adam Lief in a Pirc Defense, and gave the impression that it was a very clear, clean, straightforward win. All that... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-09-26T04:09+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1253287021.shtml This week's show is based on an old loss of mine in a Classical Pirc. I omitted one little move, and had to pay the price for it. (And worse still,... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-09-18T15:09+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1250674780.shtml We continue our look at some highlights from the career of the late great David Bronstein (1924-2006). Last week, we looked at some quick, clean tactical kills, but this time our... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-09-11T04:09+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1250674364.shtml At one point a ChessVideos viewer expressed an interest in a David Bronstein "Best-Of" show, and that seemed like a good idea. So good an idea, in fact, that we'll have... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-09-04T04:09+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1250673985.shtml In contrast to last week's show, wherein we delved pretty deeply into one of the games, this time around we'll look at a few more games in a somewhat more selective... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-08-28T04:08+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1250673408.shtml Over on the ChessVideos website, we've long had a thread where viewers could submit their games, and I'd pick some - often most or all of them - to... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-08-21T04:08+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1250314431.shtml Right here. This week's presentation includes a discussion of allocating time for training, a little bit of opening zombieism in the Caro-Kann, and takes a look at a double-rook ending... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-08-15T05:08+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1249582943.shtml We continue our new series on avoiding "zombie chess" (see last week's blurb introducing the topic) with a look at Sicilian variations where Black plays a quick ...e5, creating a... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-08-06T18:08+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1249076888.shtml What is a zombie chess player? It's not an "undead" chess player escaped from a horror movie, but one who makes moves without really thinking about them. The behavior makes it... Dennis Monokroussos 2009-07-31T21:07+00:00