MTal – Tacoma Chess Club

Interpolamezzoration

By MTal | August 11, 2015 - 4:24 pm | August 12, 2015 Lectures

Think of this as 'supercalifragilisticexpialadocious' for chess. The mysticism of this made up word is about equal to the mysticism of finding the right move order sometimes! Everyone - including high level GMs - has gotten the move order wrong. Lots of chess tactics exercises require you to find the

Finding the Plan

By MTal | August 4, 2015 - 5:10 pm | August 12, 2015 Lectures

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Can you find good candidate moves without a plan? Supposedly you can, as evaluating a position should simply lead you to looking at whatever candidate moves are available. But - there are moves and then there are MOVES! The same candidate moves are available to our eyeballs as to any

Tacoma Chess News – February 2015

By MTal | April 22, 2015 - 5:37 pm | May 21, 2015 Tacoma Chess News

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TACOMA CHESS NEWS By Gary Dorfner February 9, 2015 The Tacoma Chess Club reopened December 5th of last year after a two-month hiatus. (The first game at the new site between Steve Buck & Ben Pettijohn ended in a draw.) Our first new tournament was the 2014 Club Championship. Winners

Annual Meeting, Jan 30, 2015

By MTal | January 31, 2015 - 9:56 am | February 13, 2015 Tacoma Chess News

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With our new meeting facilities working well, there was lively discussion about how to 'recover' from not having space for the past few months prior. PARTICIPATE! --- Before covering more 'routine' matters, since we have such a great facility available, we talked a lot about how to encourage new members

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Interpolamezzoration

Finding the Plan

Tacoma Chess News – February 2015

Annual Meeting, Jan 30, 2015

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