
Jan Peter Schmidt
4.4K posts

Jan Peter Schmidt
@schmidtschi
Legal scholar, chess player, Exilhesse. Trying to make decent moves on the board and in life.












Kaven Movsziszian, mejor veterano en la categoría +50 (en la que ya fue campeón de Europa) recogió el trofeo de manos de César Thovar Pérez, delegado de Esports de la Generalitat en la provincia de Barcelona.














You sometimes hear that the first thing you need to learn in chess is tactics, but this is wrong. Before tactics you have to master taking pieces: can you avoid hanging your pieces, and take the free pieces your opponent gives you? Until you can do this 99.9% of the time, nothing else in chess matters. Chess also isn’t very fun when you’re hanging pieces left and right. A big thing we’re missing in chess instruction is a structured and efficient way to master taking pieces.





Define the Catalan opening! The first person to do so correctly, will get a retweet and a huge congratulations.

Many! Lasker, Keymer, Bluebaum, Svane, Svane, Donchenko, Luther, Yusupov, Paetz, Paetz, Siebrecht and so on...





