Ep. 299 Ben (1800 Chess.com / 1500 ECF)

This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with Ben. He has a fascinating take on chess improvement: we are mostly doing it wrong. His focus is on filling the bottom holes in your bucket or put another way, grabbing the low hanging fruit. He believes that most often these holes aren’t knowledge based. Instead they may be insta moving after opponent blunders or playing too fast in king pawn endings. Ben has designed software that identifies these patterns and is using it to improve his own game. We had a deep discussion about openings. He believes that the best opening for a titled player is not the best opening for you and I. Ben uses player databases, and plays what works at his level. It was a fun chat about going beyond the standard improvement techniques and finding new paths for improvement.

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