Do You Even Rook Lift, Bro?

Relative Value of the Pieces Diagram 6-2 The second diagrammed position in the chapter really threw me off for a bit. My mind was stuck...

The Double Check So as far as the diagram exercises go, about four or five were very, very easy. A few were tricky, and a few were downrig...

Chapter 4 is a discussion of simple pawn endings. Fortunately, thanks to Silman's Endgame Course, most of this was easy for me as I al...

Chapter 3 is all about basic opening principles, and I dig the way he phrases them. At first I felt this should be an easy chapter, because ...

Apparently, there are others calling what I am doing "The Yusupov Challenge" and I have managed to locate the blogs of some other ...