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title: Game of the Week XL-Mastrovasilis,Athanasios (2523) - Nikolov,Momchil (2522)
description: “Pattern Recognition” has become a common term in chess language, and everyone wants to find an easier way to master it.
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**The best way to accomplish this that I can suggest would be to start by reviewing/playing well-known simple tactical motives and build on that; essentially: solve puzzles non-stop.**

**It’s like learning math: the foundation for mastering more complex branches of math is set by first learning simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division methods and using them whenever possible at school. I remember the satisfaction, for example, when I recognized the path to sin^2+cos^2=1**
**from a difficult problem in a calculus class because of pattern recognition that I had developed.**

**Combinations in chess are almost always based on simple patterns. The beauty of the combination and the artistic part of the game is observed when a complex of these patterns emerge in unknown territory and gives immense satisfaction to chess enthusiasts. I felt this phenomenon in this week’s Game of the Week.**

## **Game of the Week is- Mastrovasilis vs. Nikolov**

This week's Game of the Week was submitted by Jimonios- thank you!
https://lichess.org/study/GWPZqTsb/2wIn3Kqy

This is the continuation of the Game of the Week series. All the previous weeks could be found [here](https://www.chess.com/blog/gameofweek). Thank you for reading! If you find any noteworthy games that you think should appear on **Game of the Week**, please send me a message on lichess.org.

Please note that **Game of the Week** will cover games played from Saturday to Saturday of each week, and any games played on Sunday will go to the next week. See you next Sunday!
Contributors: Grandmaster [Vasif Durarbayli](https://lichess.org/@/Durarbayli)
Edited by [Della Almind](https://lichess.org/@/QueenDella)