Perpetual Chess Linkfest #15, December 9, 2022
New GMs, Rising Stars, Book Reviews and plenty of Tips for Amateurs highlight this week's links
Improving Your Chess
GM Jan Markos Alert! “How can you avoid (blundering)? After every move, ask yourself: What has changed in the position?” With this question, you will bring your focus to all the subtle changes of the position, and this will help you to avoid visualisation problem. (Chessbase News)
Its good to see GM Noel Studer back to blogging. “If you try to change your chess training every time you have a bad day, you will never give any advice enough time to really get better.” (Noel Studer Blog)
“The summary is quite obvious. If you are an aspiring chess player who wants to get better at chess, study the classical chess heritage and modern chess classics produced by Uzbek grandmasters!” (GM Gregory Serper for Chess.com)
FM Nate Solon on How Elo Ratings Actually Work “Given how obsessed the chess world is with ratings, you’d think they’re somehow especially well-suited to chess. This turns out not to be the case.” (Zwischenzug Blog)
Top Tournament News
Lots of notable results in the Elllobregat Open in Spain- GMs Jingyao Tin, Amin Tabatabaei and newly minted GM Aditya Mittai tied for first ahead of GM Paco Vallejo, Hans Niemann, and many others (Shahid Ahmed Article for Chessbase) (Gotham Chess recaps rising Singaporean star Jingyao Tin’s win over Niemann)
No Firouzja or Abdusatorov so far for the upcoming World Rapid and Blitz, but its still stacked!
Is Chessboxing really going to be a thing? Tune in Sunday to find out! (Andre Schulz for Chessbase News)
There is a 7 year old potental star emerging on the British Chess scene, Bodhana Sivanandan (Leonard Barden for the Guardian)
Naka and Niemann News
Hikaru filed a motion to dismiss himself from the Niemann lawsuit, as Magnus and Chess.com have also done (Anthony Levin for Chess.com)
Meanwhile, Hikaru dismissed GM Paravayan from the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship, which is now down to 7 players (Jack Rodgers for Chess.com)
The NYTimes provided some useful background info on the Hans Niemann saga (David Segal and Dylan Loeb McClain for the NY Times)
Book Reviews
Richard James enjoys GM Ramesh’s Improve Your Chess Calculation, but warns that it is an extremely challenging book (British Chess News)
GM Jesse Kraai is out with Video Reviews for 2 Great Books Evaluate like a GM and The Road to Chess Improvement (Chess Dojo YouTube Channel)
Thanks for reading everyone, catch you all next week- Ben