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Notes on chess coaching and honest game review.
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Why your game review doesn't help you improve
10 July 2026A list of blunders and inaccuracies tells you what happened. It doesn't tell you why, or what you were actually thinking.
Why a good coach asks questions, not answers
10 July 2026Human coaches rarely open with the right move. They ask what you were thinking, first.
Why we'd rather our coach say nothing than guess
10 July 2026A coach that's fluent but wrong is worse than one that stays quiet. So every claim ours makes is checked before it's said.
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