Late 2 Chess

L2C 069:  Opening and Endgame Study methods, and Other Listener Questions
We love our listener questions and we catch up with some from the past few weeks:
1)  How best to study Openings
2)  How best to learn Endgames
3)  How we learn from chess books
4)  How we use Chessable/YouTube/Chessly etc. and related sites
5)  What we think are the best time controls to learn and improve with (some answers may surprise you)
Remember we are currently offering this "chess prescription" service to you and if you'd like our opinions, please send in a game with white, a game with black, and a brief (or long), summary of your current level and anything you wish to share about your game and goals.   
Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discussing an area you are interested in?  
Let us know at Late2Chess@gmail.com Also, if you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or potential suggestions and/or solutions, please let us know.
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L2C 068:  Getting Better vs Winning vs Elo Pursuit - and some of the hazards of each
Bill surprises The Doctor with one of his weird soapbox issues.  It starts with a discussion of chess improvement versus Elo increases versus an obsession with winning. 
As always, we bounce around and discuss several different aspects of these areas and many other subjects related to chess improvement. One of the things that Bill sees significant is not avoiding playing by becoming too obsessed over any of these factors. The Doctor always sees things differently and this time, to the surprise of no one, is no different.  
Remember we are currently offering this "chess prescription" service to you and if you'd like our opinions, please send in a game with white, a game with black, and a brief (or long), summary of your current level and anything you wish to share about your game and goals.   
Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discussing an area you are interested in?  
Let us know at Late2Chess@gmail.com
Also, if you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or potential suggestions and/or solutions, please let us know.
Welcome to the board. We hope you enjoy the show!
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L2C 074:  Emergency Episode - Bill's Latest Tournament (Debacle)
Bill played in a tournament this weekend, as some of you may know from our Instagram posts.  It did not go well.  He did not play well.  It was a tough one and we discuss it on the pod and what the plan of attack will be for the coming weeks.  Chess can be a tough game and Bill tends to be a bit tougher on himself than may be appropriate.  But if it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing, lol.  Another out of sequence episode / bonus episode for the week.  
Remember we are currently offering this "chess prescription" service to you and if you'd like our opinions, please send in a game with white, a game with black, and a brief (or long), summary of your current level and anything you wish to share about your game and goals.   
Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discussing an area you are interested in?  
Let us know at Late2Chess@gmail.com Also, if you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or potential suggestions and/or solutions, please let us know.
Welcome to the board.
We hope you enjoy the show! For a link to the podcast, please use: 
 https://tinyurl.com/2026CharmCityOpen 
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L2C 071:  Emergency Episode - Our 2026 Gift Bag Contest
With the recent popularity of The Doctor's grab bags, we have sold out (for zero dollars so is it really a sale?) of The Doctor's current book stash, but we wanted to go out with a bang so here are the details of our year end, holiday gift bag.   
Good luck!
Remember we are currently offering this "chess prescription" service to you and if you'd like our opinions, please send in a game with white, a game with black, and a brief (or long), summary of your current level and anything you wish to share about your game and goals.   
Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discussing an area you are interested in?  
Let us know at Late2Chess@gmail.com Also, if you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or potential suggestions and/or solutions, please let us know.
Welcome to the board.
We hope you enjoy the show! For a link to the podcast, please use: 
 https://tinyurl.com/2026GiftBagContest 
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L2C 070:  NM Robert Ramirez - Chess Coaching Deep Dive - Part 1 of...
We were very happy to have Robert Ramirez on the podcast and we had so many topics to discuss with him and then he started a whole new website and a structure to his chess paying and instruction.  So we ended up with about 5 episodes worth of questions, maybe more.  We cover his new to us method of logically explaining a methodology that can be applied to any game and maybe even alleviate some of The Doctor's middlegame planning issues/concerns.  
We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did and get as much from the discussion.  One of our best episodes.  
Remember we are currently offering this "chess prescription" service to you and if you'd like our opinions, please send in a game with white, a game with black, and a brief (or long), summary of your current level and anything you wish to share about your game and goals.   
Did we miss something or get anything wrong? Were we remiss in not asking a question or discussing an area you are interested in?  
Let us know at Late2Chess@gmail.com Also, if you have any thoughts, topics and/or guest ideas, or potential suggestions and/or solutions, please let us know.
Welcome to the board.
We hope you enjoy the show! For a link to the podcast, please use: 
 https://tinyurl.com/RobertRamirez1 
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