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Kostya’s Post-Mortems: 2019 Los Angeles Fall GM Norm – Round 2

Hey folks, here's my post-mortem analysis of my Round 2 game against IM Christopher Yoo (2451), streamed live to Twitch. Tournament Info: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachment... For more chess content, check out my Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/hellokostya Social Media: Website: https://www.hellokostya.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kostyakavutskiy Twitter: … [Read more...] about Kostya’s Post-Mortems: 2019 Los Angeles Fall GM Norm – Round 2

Kostya’s Post-Mortems: 2019 Los Angeles Fall GM Norm – Round 1

Hey folks, here's my post-mortem analysis of my Round 1 game against FM Eugene Yanayt (2240), streamed live to Twitch. Tournament Info: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/419042970558398473/624686293414314007/20190920_121919.jpg For more chess content, check out my Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/hellokostya Social Media: Website: https://www.hellokostya.com … [Read more...] about Kostya’s Post-Mortems: 2019 Los Angeles Fall GM Norm – Round 1

Kostya’s Blueprint: Evaluation

This video is all about improving your evaluation ability in chess. The four key factors of evaluation may be simple to understand, but hard to assess during the course of the game. If you haven't seen Part 1 of this series about calculation, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzzyR... Four Key Factors of Evaluation - 1:02 Analysis of Keres Game - 5:19 Dynamic … [Read more...] about Kostya’s Blueprint: Evaluation

Kostya’s Blueprint: Visualization

Hi folks, this video will be all about improving your visualization in chess. If you haven't seen my first video in this series about calculation, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzzyR_YIZz0 Check out my annotations to the the full game covered in this video: https://new.uschess.org/news/kostyas-gotd-august-7th/ Kostya's Book Recommendations: … [Read more...] about Kostya’s Blueprint: Visualization