Exploring Fischer's opening strategies versus various openings. This video looks at his King's Pawn opening versus Bent Larsen's French Defence. The match was played in 1971 in Denver, with Fischer winning.
Explores the Evans Gambit Opening book lines with possible variations. The video includes a match of Bobby Fischer's that highlights the use of the gambit.
This video series focuses on Grandmaster level chess tactics. This particular video features an interesting tactical idea by Bobby Fischer in a match he played against W. Birch in 1963.
The full match PGN is available on my chess blog which you can access from my main YouTube channel page.
Explores the Ruy Lopez Classical Defence opening (ECO C64). The video includes a match between Emanuel Lasker and Wilhelm Steinitz in the Chess World Championship rematch in 1896.
The Danish Gambit opening allows for rapid attack development for white. This video explores the book line moves, along with possible counter-play by black.
Exploring the Alekhine's Defence played by black in countering the king's pawn opening, one of the most common openings used by white in online and over-the-board play.
This video explores the chess tactic triangulation, a technique that allows you to obtain the opposition from the same position at the cost of a tempo. The video contains basic examples, leading up to the technique being used at the grandmaster level of play.
This video explores the Mortimer Trap which is attributed to the player James Mortimer. This trap can be played by black in the Ruy Lopez opening. If white falls for the trap, the white player will be subject to a positional nightmare.
This video series focuses on Grandmaster level chess tactics. This particular video features a very interesting and crushing tactical line by Paul Morphy in a match he played against Louis Paulsen in New York, 1857.
The full match PGN is available on my chess blog which you can access from my main YouTube channel page.
This video explores a chess match that highlights some flaws in my positional analysis that I had to overcome in the mid-1400's rating range in order to improve my overall game. Seemingly small positional mistakes can be costly.
This video explores a chess match that highlights the importance of looking for positional possibilities and capitalizing on your opponent's positional mistakes.
Exploring Fischer's opening strategies versus various openings. This video looks at one of his defences against the King's Pawn opening. The match was played in 1966 in Santa Monica against Wolfgang Unzicker.
This video explores the Magnus Smith Trap, coined after the three time Canadian Chess Champion Magnus Smith. It's a trap that white can play in the Sozin (also known as Fischer variation) of the Sicilian Defence.
Small Firms Beef Up Retirement Services - Wall Street Journal Small businesses are helping employees become better managers -- of their own money. When it comes to managing their retirement-savings accounts, small-business employees often are at a disadvantage compared with their counterparts at large companies ...
Income Planning and Safe Withdrawal Rates - Seekingalpha.com It has become more and more evident to me that most investors have almost no real sense of what they need to save for retirement—an issue that is closely linked to the problem of determining how much income an investor can safely draw from his/her ...
The Secret to Retirement Planning - Safe Haven "When it comes to planning for the future, most people think of retirement. Retirement planning is important because it allows you to do the things that you were unable to do while working -- travel, start a business, go back to school, be closer to ...