Tag: Athanasios Mastrovasilis
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Game of the Week XVII: Caruana, Fabiano (2792) – Dominguez Perez, Leinier (2752)
During Chess.com’s coverage of the FIDE World Championship, Caruana said that he likes to go against the engine’s will in his opening preparation. Today, it is almost impossible to find any significant advantage in serious openings. Instead, the main goal of top GMs is to take their opponent out of their preparation. Caruana claims that…
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Game of the Week XL: Mastrovasilis, Athanasios (2523) – Nikolov, Momchil (2522)
“Pattern Recognition” has become a common term in chess language, and everyone wants to find an easier way to master it. 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…