http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/ en-us 2008-08-02T06:08+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1217108679.shtml Three games, three wins! There have only been eight draws in the eighteen games so far, and no games without a fight. As far as I'm aware, there aren't any paternalistic... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-07-26T21:07+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1214865981.shtml An anonymous reader writes:... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-06-30T22:06+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210880805.shtml I recall promising not to address this topic anymore, but what I wish to say in this post goes in a completely different direction than the usual laments. There won't be... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-05-15T19:05+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1207547634.shtml Ljubomir Ljubojevic, and it probably explains why he hasn't played very much the past decade. Here's the quotation again:... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-04-07T05:04+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206156565.shtml Some, like GMs Alexander Grischuk and Vladislav Tkachiev, have subscribed to that point of view for years, but most have taken the balanced view that both forms have their place. In... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-22T03:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205908883.shtml I responded to this in the comments section of this post, but it seems interesting enough to merit its own discussion. So here is Bernard Kobes' comment:... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-19T06:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205906931.shtml As fantastic as Ivanchuk's 14.Qxe6!! really is, it's possibly not quite as original an idea as one might think, for three reasons.... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-19T06:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205039895.shtml ...would have been today.... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-09T05:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205036567.shtml Right here. (HT: Brian Karen)... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-09T04:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1197501204.shtml ... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-01-09T21:01+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1199664589.shtml Here, courtesy of Brian Karen, is a NY Post article by GM Andy Soltis. In it, he makes two main claims. The first is that (many) chess teachers offer... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-01-07T00:01+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1194512113.shtml Many chess players are vexed by draws, and for several reasons. One: there's a general aesthetic preference for decisive results. Two: some grandmaster draws are "grandmaster draws" - i.e. quick, bloodless,... Dennis Monokroussos 2007-11-08T08:11+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1194154778.shtml Let's start, as usual, by re-presenting our starting position:... Dennis Monokroussos 2007-11-04T05:11+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1193080729.shtml In my youth, when the world was young and dirt was interesting, one of the opening lessons I learned from the world of big-time chess was that in the Open Ruy... Dennis Monokroussos 2007-10-24T04:10+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1192770327.shtml My initial ruminations can be found here, but I'd like to add to those comments. A distinction was made between simple problems (used for drilling) and more complicated problems, and... Dennis Monokroussos 2007-10-19T05:10+00:00