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Another great post that you have presented. Insightful and the point about improvement being a trap lands and really think for me the focus on improvement is stressful and can take the joy out of play…

Sounds like you have made some positive changes and so hopefully things heading into next year will be better. Hope to see you write more blogs as always insightful. And a good reminder for the use of…

amazing list that you wrote about. thank you

Thank you for this amazing learning resource

Sounds like some great lessons with your coach. Keep enjoying the game and writing your blog as always gain some good insights in your writing.

Incredible post, bookmarked to re-read when falling into the chasing elo trap. The why I took up chess had nothing to do with ratings, in fact didn’t even know they existed. It’s a beautiful game that…

Excellent post and glad the time away has helped in some positive changes in your plans. It all makes sense and some takeaways that I could find to be helpful. Being fun and enjoyable for me has to be…

Enjoy the time away and all the best on the next adventure

Very nice post as such an important aspect in the game. Some days I’m in a bad mood from a loss the night before. Trying to gain some insight from each game if a win or loss and see my opponent as a p…

Great post. It is a humbling game as keeping up with my pieces and the opponents pieces, the intention of their moves, my playing with tunnel vision at times when I ignore their move intention then ch…