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Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon, 2013
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The Art of Analysis
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CHRISTMAS BOOK REVIEW: last minute gifts for the unimproved player
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books
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Lessons from World Champions and others
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Coaching
Chess and Psychology
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Coaching
Book review: Danger in chess - Avni
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Coaching
Lessons from the lost No.1s
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Coaching
Coaching Summer 2014
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Coaching
Free chess coaching videos online
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Endings
Passed Pawn Pandemonium
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Endings
Who would win in a fight between a lion and a bear? (endgame fortresses)
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local
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Said the Elephant to the Bishop...
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Semi-Random Baseline Chess
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Knight's Tour
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Duck Chess
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Play through PGN collections
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The chess family tree
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Chess Coaching Summer 2011 (updated 23rd August)
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Morphy vs Steinitz
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Chess Notation
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Going back in time
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Exeter Club Championship & Rapidplay Tournament 2012-2013
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Lessons from Alekhin
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An ABC of chess
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PDF versions of handouts
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Lessons from Smyslov
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How to play chess
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Lessons from Euwe
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misc
Lessons from John Nunn
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Openings
Openings Workshop 2013
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Openings
ECO Opening codes: list with variation names
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Openings
A la carte
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Openings
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Tactics
Lessons in Philidor's Defence - live action version
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Openings
Play the Opening like a Champion
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Openings
Opening workshop 2018 part 2
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Openings
Opening Workshop 2015
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Openings
Opening workshop 2018
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Praxis
Clock control
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Praxis
The Art of Analysis, Part 1
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Praxis
Exeter Chess Club Championship 2016-17
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Praxis
To take is a mistake - tension in the chess position
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Praxis
Exeter Chess Club RAPIDPLAY Championship 2016-17
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Praxis
Club Championship 2014/15
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Praxis
Club competitions
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Praxis
Why do we lose?
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Praxis
Lessons from Kramnik
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Praxis
Lessons from Korchnoi
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The Great BICS Internet Chess Match
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Lessons from Carlsen
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Lessons from Anand
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Exeter Club Championship Rapidplay Tournament 2013-2014
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Praxis
What's wrong with club players? An MOT for us all
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Praxis
Two Open Games
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Praxis
Is there luck in chess?
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Club Championship 2015/16
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Praxis
Shakespeare Annotates
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Praxis
The Art of Analysis, Part 2
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Praxis
Lucky escapes
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Praxis
Lessons from Judit Polgar
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What makes a difference?
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Assess Your Chess
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Club games
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A chess glossary
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Lessons from Steinitz
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Random Chess Advice
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Exeter Chess Club Simul 1995
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Praxis
DGT XL clocks
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Praxis
How do Chess-Players Think?
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Praxis
The pieces at their best
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Praxis
Time trouble
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Strategy
Middlegame gym
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style
Lessons from Boris Spassky
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style
Lessons from Karpov
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Tactics
Tim's Tactics
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Tactics
Visualization/Analysis in Chess
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Tactics
Blunder-proofing your game
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Tactics
Erro ergo sum: analysis and error
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Tactics
Practical Tactics
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Openings
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Tactics
Lessons in Philidor's Defence - live action version
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Tactics
Shredder/Chess Tutor Daily Chess Puzzle (IFRAME)
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Tactics
The Improving Annotator
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techie
Test canvas AOK
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techie
FEN2diag.pl: a Perl script to convert FEN chess positions to human-readable diagrams
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Benonis
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The Solid Sicilian
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Attack
The Very Slow King's-side Attack
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Endings
Rook Endings in Practice
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Endings
Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation: White wins
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Endings
A Rook Ending: Capablanca-Janowsky
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Openings
The Colle System
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Openings
The secret arts of castling
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Openings
Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings (3): without c2-c4
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Openings
Moller
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Openings
Tales of the Unexpected: dealing with Unorthodox Openings
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Openings
Systems against the English Opening: book resources
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Openings
Custer's Last Stand
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Openings
The French Defence for Beginners II: Key Variations
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Openings
The Dutch Stonewall
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Openings
Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings (1) Cambridge Springs
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Openings
The Swiss Defence
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Openings
Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings
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Openings
Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4 (3)
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Openings
Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4
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Openings
Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings (2): Semi-Slav and Exchange
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Openings
Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4 (1)
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Openings
Gambits
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Openings
The Petroff Defence for Beginners
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Openings
Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4 (2)
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Openings
Beating the Anti-Indians
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Openings
The Caro-Kann
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Praxis
Chess style
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Praxis
Lessons from Bobby Fischer
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Praxis
Compensation for material?
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Praxis
Safe and solid?
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Praxis
Lessons from Mikhail Tal
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Praxis
Chess with Attitude
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Strategy
Weak pawns
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Strategy
Schematic thinking
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Strategy
Exchanging to Win
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Strategy
Opposite-coloured Bishops in the endgame and the middle-game
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Strategy
Pawn formations
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Tactics
Blunders at East Devon
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Attack
The Theory of Steinitz
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Attack
Capablanca - Master of the Attack
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Endings
Two weaknesses
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Endings
Bishop Endgames
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Endings
Studies and problems
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Endings
Basic Rook Endgames
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Openings
The Sicilian Defence
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Openings
Slav or Semi?
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Openings
The Ideas Behind the Modern Defence
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Openings
SuperMac!
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Openings
The Bogoljubow Paradox
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Openings
The Ideas behind the King's Gambit
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Openings
The Modern Italian Game
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Openings
The Ideas behind the English Opening
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Openings
Five Sicilians from club play
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Openings
Dr.Dave's Adventures with the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
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Openings
The Hypermodern Approach
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Openings
The London System
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Openings
The Variations of the King's Gambit
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Openings
The Queen's Gambit Accepted/Isolated Queen's Pawn
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Openings
The French 'Little Centre'
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Praxis
Lessons from Larsen
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Praxis
Lessons from Lasker
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Praxis
Contempt for Pawns
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Praxis
Lessons from Capablanca
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Praxis
Club Games - Mark Blackmore on a roll
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Praxis
Club Games - Steve Webb at work
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Praxis
Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon, 2000
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Praxis
Lessons from Rubinstein
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Strategy
Doubled c-Pawns
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Strategy
Weak squares
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Strategy
Planning
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Strategy
"To take is a mistake"
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Strategy
Mysterious moves
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Strategy
Bishops: good, bad and both.
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Strategy
Pawn mobility
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Strategy
The Queen's-side attack
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Tactics
Strategy and Tactics
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Attack
Attacking the castled King
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Coaching
Getting started with the Coaching stuff
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Endings
Queen against Pawn
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Endings
Exchanging into King Endings
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Endings
General advice on the endgame
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Endings
Rook Endings in Theory
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Endings
Mate with the Two Bishops
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Endings
Outside passed Pawns
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Endings
Mate with Two Bishops
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Endings
Winning a drawn endgame
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Endings
MiddleGame Endings and Endgame Openings
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Openings
Playing Black against King's-Pawn Openings (1.e4)
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Openings
Ten rules for the opening
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Openings
Nineteenth-Century Openings
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Openings
No more Old Stodge! (2)
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Openings
No More Old Stodge!
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Openings
Four Choices in the Opening
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Openings
The Italian Game for beginners
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Openings
Minor Opening Mistakes
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Openings
Minor Openings
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Openings
Playing 1.d4 for juniors
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Openings
Choosing an Opening Repertoire
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Openings
A first opening repertoire
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Openings
The Ulvestad Variation of the Two Knights' Defence
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Openings
The French Defence for Beginners I: Key Ideas
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Praxis
A disaster in the Stonewall
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Praxis
General Middlegame Advice
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Praxis
Cool Tips
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Praxis
Lessons from Morphy
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Praxis
Bruce Rowston at work
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Strategy
Knight outposts
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Strategy
Kings and Queens
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Strategy
The Fianchetto: a user's guide
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Strategy
Rooks on ranks and files
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Tactics
Vukovic's mates
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Tactics
Get your eye in -- basic practice in noticing attacks
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Tactics
Upon the pin
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Tactics
Lessons in Philidor's Defence
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Tactics
A course in chess tactics
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Tactics
Essential checkmate patterns
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books
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Openings
Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik by Imre Konig
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Endings
How to mate with Bishop and Knight
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Endings
Double Bishop Endgames
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Openings
Spanish Torture? The Ruy Lopez
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Openings
The Closed Sicilian
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Openings
The Deadly English
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books
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Openings
Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik by Imre Konig
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Openings
Do New Ideas Stand Up in Practice? by GM Richard Reti
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Openings
You know when you've been Benko'd
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Openings
Taimanov's Legacy
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Praxis
Club Games - Andrew Pickering at work
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Praxis
Lessons from Petrosian
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Praxis
Lessons from Tartakower
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Praxis
Meat and potatoes
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Praxis
Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon 2016
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Praxis
Dr.Dave's Further Adventures at East Devon
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Praxis
Steve Homer at work
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Praxis
Chunking in patterns of GM thought
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Praxis
Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon, 2014
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Strategy
Space and potential (mud, mud, glorious mud)
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Strategy
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Minority attack?
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Strategy
New starting formations (Tabi'at)
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Strategy
On manoeuvres
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Tactics
Preparation for Combinations
Chess in Exeter and beyond
Exeter Chess Club
Club competitions
Championship 2018/19
Rapidplay 2018/19
Roll of honour
100-odd years
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