Late 2 Chess

L2C 066:  How to Study Puzzles and tactics to Actually Improve Your Chess Game If you have ever listened to any chess improvement advisors, you have undoubtably heard that to improve at chess you need to improve your tactics, especially early on in your chess journey.  Some have even said that chess is 99% tactics at this point or that tactics is all/everything you need to do to improve.  We aren't sure that it is that extreme, but it is definitely one of the most important aspects of chess and critical at all levels.  One thing that is not often discussed is how best to study tactics.  We have evolved over the past few years and have a pretty solid way to study tactics.  Much of it is derived from the advice of coaches, grandmasters, YouTube, books etc.  But we also had a few aspects that we added ourselves.  While this is not definitively the best way to study tactics and puzzles, we think it is.  If we ever come up with further improvements and refinements, we will add them to future episodes.    Also, remember we are currently offering this "chess prescription" service to you and if you'd like our opinions, please send in a game with white, a game with black, and a brief (or long), summary of your current level and anything you wish to share about your game and goals.    Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discussing an area you are interested in?   Let us know at [email protected] Also, if you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or potential suggestions and/or solutions, please let us know. Welcome to the board. We hope you enjoy the show! For a link to the podcast, please use:  https://tinyurl.com/PuzzlesAndTactics  Want some Late 2 Chess swag? Our store is open at: https://late-2-chess.myspreadshop.com/   #chess #chessInstruction #adultimprover #tournamentChess #learnchess #chesslearner #chesstournament #chesstournaments #mostExcellentRoadTo1500 #OurBumpyRoad #roadto1500Elo #roadtoDecentChess #DCP #decentChessPlayer #adultimprovers #chessClub #clubChess #chessiverse #learningchess #TheDoctorOnTheSofa #BillOnTheSofa #fantasyChess #chessannotation #chessanalysis #TaoofChess

L2C 064:  Our Chess Prescriptions For Each Other It is here, the episode where The Doctor gets to tell Bill what to do to improve his chess game.  And, Bill gets to tell the Doctor what he has to do to improve his.  The best part about it is that they both have to do what the other says.  Since we both know each other's games very well, this should lead to improvement in how we paly or at least fill a few more holes in our games.  Also, remember we are currently offering this service to you and if you'd like our opinions, please send in a game with white, a game with black, and a brief, or long, summary of your current level and anything you wish to share about your game and goals.    Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discuss an area you are interested in?   Let us know at [email protected] Also, if you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or potential suggestions and/or solutions, please let us know. Welcome to the board. We hope you enjoy the show! For a link to the podcast, please use:  https://tinyurl.com/ChessRx1  Want some Late 2 Chess swag? Our store is open at: https://late-2-chess.myspreadshop.com/   #chess #chessInstruction #adultimprover #tournamentChess #learnchess #chesslearner #chesstournament #chesstournaments #mostExcellentRoadTo1500 #OurBumpyRoad #roadto1500Elo #roadtoDecentChess #DCP #decentChessPlayer #adultimprovers #chessClub #clubChess #chessiverse #learningchess  #TheDoctorOnTheSofa #BillOnTheSofa #fantasyChess #chessannotation #chessanalysis #TaoofChess 

L2C 065:  Listener Emails and Bill's Latest OTB Tournament at Marywood The Doctor (and I) love nothing more than emails from our listeners.  This episode starts off we a few of our more recent emails, including one from our first listener prescription request.  We then go into a quick review of Bill's latest OTB tournament at Marywood.    Also, remember we are currently offering this "chess prescription" service to you and if you'd like our opinions, please send in a game with white, a game with black, and a brief (or long), summary of your current level and anything you wish to share about your game and goals.    Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discuss an area you are interested in?   Let us know at [email protected] Also, if you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or potential suggestions and/or solutions, please let us know. Welcome to the board. We hope you enjoy the show! For a link to the podcast, please use:  https://tinyurl.com/MarywoodSept2026  Want some Late 2 Chess swag? Our store is open at: https://late-2-chess.myspreadshop.com/   #chess #chessInstruction #adultimprover #tournamentChess #learnchess #chesslearner #chesstournament #chesstournaments #mostExcellentRoadTo1500 #OurBumpyRoad #roadto1500Elo #roadtoDecentChess #DCP #decentChessPlayer #adultimprovers #chessClub #clubChess #chessiverse #learningchess  #TheDoctorOnTheSofa #BillOnTheSofa #fantasyChess #chessannotation #chessanalysis #TaoofChess 

L2C 063:  Dr Can Kabadayi on Learning Chess World Class Chess Instructor and prolific author of multiple award winning Chessable Courses Dr Can Kabadayi joins the podcast and we discuss a few of the more important aspects of learning chess by applying Dr Can's background in cognitive science and experience as a chess coach to help you get better at the game of chess.  It was a fantastic episode and we can't wait to have Dr Can back on the podcast for part 2 of hopefully many, many more discussions.   Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discuss an area you are interested in?   Let us know at [email protected] Also, if you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or potential suggestions and/or solutions, please let us know. Welcome to the board. We hope you enjoy the show! For a link to the podcast, please use:   https://tinyurl.com/DrCanOnChess  Want some Late 2 Chess swag? Our store is open at: https://late-2-chess.myspreadshop.com/   #chess #chessInstruction #adultimprover #tournamentChess #learnchess #chesslearner #chesstournament #chesstournaments #mostExcellentRoadTo1500 #OurBumpyRoad #roadto1500Elo #roadtoDecentChess #DCP #decentChessPlayer #adultimprovers #chessClub #clubChess #chessiverse #learningchess  #TheDoctorOnTheSofa #BillOnTheSofa #fantasyChess #chessannotation #chessanalysis #TaoofChess 

L2C 062:  Our Top Ten Things That Did Not Help Our Chess - Yet Top ten lists seem to be popular, so we decided to list the Top 10 Activities that we all have heard and likely tried that have not helped our chess game or helped our chess game the least to this point.  This may not be the case as we improve, but to this point, here is our list.     Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discuss an area you are interested in?   Let us know at [email protected] Also, if you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or potential suggestions and/or solutions, please let us know. Welcome to the board. We hope you enjoy the show! For a link to the podcast, please use:  https://tinyurl.com/BottomTenChess  Want some Late 2 Chess swag? Our store is open at: https://late-2-chess.myspreadshop.com/   #chess #chessInstruction #adultimprover #tournamentChess #learnchess #chesslearner #chesstournament #chesstournaments #mostExcellentRoadTo1500 #OurBumpyRoad #roadto1500Elo #roadtoDecentChess #DCP #decentChessPlayer #adultimprovers #chessClub #clubChess #chessiverse #learningchess  #TheDoctorOnTheSofa #BillOnTheSofa #fantasyChess #chessannotation #chessanalysis #TaoofChess