Last night we looked at Edmund's recent game in the Manchester League. The main learning points were how to attack the uncastled King when you have a lead in development.
Tonight we looked a game from the Morphy v Lowentahl match in 1858 held in London which ended in a 11.5-2.5 winning margin for Morphy.
The game was notable in that it did not feature his usual attack on the King but a positional masterpiece with some lovely creeping moves.
Tonight we looked at Edmund's recent game in the Manchester League. The main learning points were how to attack the uncastled King when you have a lead in development.
Tonight we looked at Joel's game from the recent County match where he downed a 2151 in great style.
The main learning point was that we mustn't be too reliant on computer assessments as they play nearly perfectly and humans simply don't especially when they are defending.
Tonight we looked at Jay's up and down game against Swinton from a couple of weeks ago which contained many learning points as well as many tactical twists and turns.
After that we looked at a study involving Knight and a Rook's pawn which was very instructive.
Tonight we looked at club games by Ross, William and Phil.
They contained many lessons including how dangerous transpositions can be in the opening, the need to constantly assess, trading old advantages for new and how important it is to be extremely focused in the endgame as the risk reward is then at its greatest.
Tonight we looked at Steve's nice win against Urmston plus I gave a short tutorial on the very tricky 2 Knights from blacks perspective
Tonight we looked at the chaotic game Radjabov v Vidit which despite the tactics had some really nice positional ideas that we can learn from.
Tonight we looked at the lesser known game Fischer v Dely from Skopje 1967. Fischer was still 3-4 years off his prime but the game demonstrated his brilliance both positionally and tactically.
Tonight we looked at the game Spielmann v Wahle.
The lessons from the game were to avoid moving pieces twice in the opening, Assessing what kind of position your opponent likes or dislikes and be aware of tactical chances.
Tonight we looked at the subjects of trading pieces to your advantage and removing the defender to create a winning attack.
Tonight I showed a couple of games from the Swindon U1600 event played by a young lad that I started working with 3 weeks ago.
The examples show how weak players simply play too quickly, don't look at enough candidate moves and the games can change from winning or losing almost every move as a result.
Tonight we looked at the stand out game from round 8 of the British Championship held in Liverpool.
It features model play by both sides in the Colle-Zukertort opening before Black makes the fatal error that costs him the game due to some amazing tactics.
Tonight we spent the lesson looking at "Hook and ladder" and "Obstruction" tactics.
After that Joel did some 1-1 coaching whilst I played some of our newer players
Tonight we looked at one of the classic Queen's Gambit games which then led to an endgame showing why usually Queen and Knight outplay Queen and Bishop
Tonight we spent valuable time looking at probably the most common tactic in chess that of a back rank mate. Pattern recognition is key to becoming a good player.
Tonight we looked at the classic game from 1920 featuring a very boring opening that ended with some amazing deflection tactics.
Tonight we looked at Steve's demolition of his opponent in the Meltham match using the Stonewall. Then to balance things out I showed a model game for Black of mine from 2012.