November Chess Improvement Blog Carnival--The Get 'er Done Version!

Hey All!


Sorry this was delayed a few days.  Last week's storm kept the internet off and then we had a glitch with the carnival software so...

No fancy themes for this carnival--this is the Donald Trump, All Business Chess Blog Carnival!

The following are from some of best Chess.com blogs:



For a treatise on knight endings see:
http://blog.chess.com/EBurke/knight-endings

TigerLilov helps us improve our pieces:
http://blog.chess.com/TigerLilov/the-ultimate-strategy-improving-the-pieces

A VERY important endgame theme is discussed by Drazisaur:
http://blog.chess.com/Drazisaur/the-distant-opposition---an-instructive-position-for-beginners

More endgame instruction can be found here:
http://blog.chess.com/ChessNetwork/chess-endgame-queen--king-vs-rook--king

CharlyAZ gives us a great primer on analyzing our own games (a must read):
http://blog.chess.com/CharlyAZ/a-hardcore-guide-to-analyze-your-chess-games

A philosophical treatise follows:
http://blog.chess.com/JohnChernoff/a-philosophical-treatise-upon-my-last-utterly-shoddy-chess-game2

 An interesting look on why being assertive at the board is important:
http://blog.chess.com/shuttlechess92/chess-personality-assertiveness

And finally from Chess.com basic strategies we ALL should know:
http://blog.chess.com/Jayadevprabhu/danrsquos-blogbasic-chess-strategies-that-each-player-should-know

And now some more great entries from our bloggers at large:

Mark Week's talks about Garry Kasparov:
http://chessforallages.blogspot.com/2011/10/garrys-games.html

Chess discusses the inevitable ratings dip:
http://achessdad.com/2011/10/the-dip/

One of two posts from the man at pathtochessmastery:
http://pathtochessmastery.blogspot.com/2011/10/ratings-fear-and-loathing.html

10 reasons why we should play chess:  (what? only ten!)
http://jonny-smartblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/10-reasons-why-you-should-play-chess.html

A great article written by a champion:
http://www.eimacs.com/blog/2011/10/teen-chess-champion-rachel-gologorsky/


And our mad scientist the Empirical Rabbit chimes in with a negative review of a Peshka Tactics course (oddly enough I will be giving some Peshka tactics course some majorly positive reviews sometime very soon)---(the debate rages on!):
http://empiricalrabbit.blogspot.com/2011/11/chess-combinations-for-club-players.html

And a wonderful post on sizing up one's chess performance:
http://pathtochessmastery.blogspot.com/2011/10/chess-performance-inventory.html

And finally a general shout out to Nigel Davies' always great blog:
http://chessimprover.com/

Again sorry for the delay and this rather straight forward edition of the carnival!  But nature and technology will do what they do.  :)

Next month's carnival is to be held at our own Blue Devil Knight's Blog!

Have a great week!