Path to Chess Mastery

This final-round game was won primarily due to my opening preparation in the Colle, which gave me a strategically winning position as of mov...

The Colle is far from a "system" opening, although that is often its reputation. Taken from an opening study example, here is a fa...

In this tournament game I made a couple of key moves on general "principles" which in fact went against the actual principles inhe...

This next tournament game shows my failure to do the one job in the opening that is always strategically most important - open up the space ...

In this first-round game as Black, I was pleased to have an almost entirely clean start to my last tournament. The Caro-Kann continues to pe...