For International chess day I have a student from USA visiting me in Serbia. I organized a chess tournament with big prize money for the ocassion and two of my local students won prize money Life is good! #chesspunks #Chess

Vishy sir and Peter sir are still going strong!💪

Feels good to gain a significant amount of rating at least in one time control after several months of poor results. My main focus will be on classical chess but it is very time consuming and difficult. Hopefully I will play at least 50 classical games in 2026. #chesspunks

I have some exciting news for you! I have published my first ever review of a chess book on chessreads. If you are not following @chessreads you are missing out on many great chess book suggestions! #chesspunks

Abdusattorov beats Mishra after blitzing out 34 moves of preparation! 🤯 At the end Nodirbek still had 1 hour, 43 minutes on his clock: https://t.co/vVlBS4Z2MR

I have made a video analysis of some of my games for my students. Sound quality is with some background noise so I am nervous to publish it but if you wish you can message me and I will send you the link. #chesspunks

11. Not forcing a draw in a slightly worse position (psychology reasons) 12. Forcing a draw in a almost winning position (psychology reasons)

7. Being afraid to sacrifice material for activity 8. Forgetting opening preparation 9. Not being able to visualize even 3 deep in one situation 10. Calculating so deep that I forget in which order I should play the moves and need to recalculate losing time in the process.

4. Complicating the position without a reason 5. Overlooking tactical hits due to time trouble or playing too fast when not in time trouble 6. Losing time in endgames in order to protect irrelevant pawns

I found 12 different types of inaccuracies/mistakes/blunders that I made 1. Playing seemingly useful moves – such as moves that gain tempos. 2. Defending poorly 3. Going for unfavorable simplifications in order not to have to “worry about king safety”

One truly learns best from their own mistakes. The amount of best moves I saw but didn't play in the previous classical tournament that I just finished reflects a lot about my confidence on the chess board and especially in my confidence in my defensive skills. CONT #chesspunks

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I am playing a classical tournament after 8 months. I am so off form that I can see it in my calculation and decision making. In the span of 48 hours I drew against a 2250 IM, 2230 FM and against a 1700 player. Ah the highs and lows of chess. #chesspunks

"Casually" drawing in 200+ moves against 2170 while playing last 120 moves on increment. Held to a draw 2 bishops and 2 pawns vs 2 bishops and 3 pawns. Endgame training is important! Next game I held another 200+ rated player in a slightly worse rook endgame! #chesspunks

Daily training yealds results. I just made one of my best ever results scoring 6/9 winning against 2200+ and drawing against four 2050+ rated players. 6/9 +50 rating, not too bad! #chesspunks

Nunn : Understanding chess endgames Livshitz: Test your endgame ability Aagard: A matter of endgame technique Zlotnik: Treasure trove (chapter 8) DM for more info and let's improve your endgame skills!

Dear #chesspunks I am currently accepting students at a discount rate if the students are willing to train only endgames with me. I plan to do one topic per lesson and will be preparing the most instructive positions from the following books for training purposes : CONT

That is not bad, but it is the second best move. #chesspunks

Nothing more beautiful than a nice attack!! #chesspunks

Duolingo for 10 minutes daily and listening to the languages I learned improved my reading and comperehension skills of Russian and German to a great degree which is very useful for both my chess (Russian books) and Philosophy. #chesspunks #LanguageLearning #Duolingo

Won my Club Championship game last week and won both my Munster League games today! As always a huge thank you to my wonderful coach @mencikdavid for his guidance and his patience! #chess #cheespunks