Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Bullet Academy - Episode 1 - Premoves

FM Ingvar Johannesson a.k.a. Zibbit posted a video as the first one in a series called "bullet academy". This one is about pre-moving in bullet chess.
It is very instructive video as he clearly is able to show the benefits of it. 




A nice quote from the beginning of the video:
"Some people say it (bullet-chess) is not chess, but of course you need chess skill to be good at it".
I am looking forward to watch part 2 - hovering,

There is more at http://zibbitchess.com/  or @zibbitvideos on twitter.

( I am deliberately linking to his activities, perhaps he gets notified somehow and it might motivate him to try to keep his new years resolution - Áfram Ingvar!)


Monday, January 5, 2015

Garry Kasparov on "Achieving Your Potential"



Through a link on på www.reddit.com/r/chess i found this probably well known video:

A very interesting one to watch, the first part because of the subject and his views, and the second part because of his good answers to questions from the audience.
For example with some points about his match with Deep Blue that I hadn't heard of before. Or the last question about when to start teaching children, with a beautiful and elaborate answer.