🎤Follow us on Twitter: @TheChessAngle ♟This podcast is sponsored by Chessable. Chessable uses science-backed learning and the concept of spaced repetition to ensure retention. Check out their courses today!♟ Grandmaster John Emms is a distinguished chess professional. He is one of the UK's top players, as well as a prolific writer, educator, and chess coach. The bulk of our conversation focused on his amazing (and highly recommended) book, The Survival Guide to Competitive Chess (Amazon). Club players and adult improvers of all levels should find our discussion highly beneficial. John reviews several topics from the book and offers practical strategies for tournament play at the amateur level. Some of our talking points include:

The CEM (check every move) method
Avoiding high risk/low reward tactics
Bluffing & The Poker Face
Converting winning positions
Draw offers & "draw by reputation"
Choosing an opening repertoire
Clock control & time management
Long think, wrong think
Internet & blitz chess

John's Twitter page: @GMJohnEmms 📚Visit John's Amazon.com Author Page for a full list of titles📚 Selected works by GM John Emms:

The Survival Guide to Rook Endings
The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book
Starting Out: The Queen's Indian
Starting Out: The Sicilian
Easy Guide to the Nimzo-Indian
Discovering Chess Openings : Building a repertoire from basic principles
More Simple Chess: Moving on from the Basic Principles

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Ep. 40 (S2 Finale): Tournament Strategy feat. GM John Emms