Tag: Maxime Lagarde
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Game of the Week XII: Predke, Alexandr (2682) – Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (2761)
All chess players encounter situations where it is necessary to effectively respond to their opponents’ moves and ideas. Preventing them or preparing against them is known as prophylaxis (from Ancient Greek: πρό (pró = before) + φύλαξις (phúlaxis = a watching, guarding). There are two types of prophylaxis in chess, which might be translated into…
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Game of the Week LII: Lagarde, Maxime (2638) – Mosadeghpour, Masoud (2489)
Man’s ego is always the biggest obstacle on his way to success. The ego leads us to be more interested in what we want rather than what the person in front of us is doing, which is detrimental to chess improvement. However, chess masters have been training to overcome the ego obstacle with a lot…
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Game of the Week XX: Lagarde, Maxime (2638) – Kamsky, Gata (2665)
“Winning a won game is the hardest thing in chess” is a well-known quote by Frank Marshall. This may be why we often hear when someone angrily exits the playing hall after losing and exclaims, “I was completely winning!” I have heard of a funny recruiting technique by a coach who would approach parents and…