Chess Books
Trying out a series of chess books by Yasser Seirawan. Started with Winning Chess Tactics, but quickly realized lacked the fundamentals covered in first book Play Winning Chess (force, time, space, and pawn structure).
For extra practice, installed chess board at work. Great time waster (and developer snare). Run open games where anyone free to play. This leads to odd chess games, where one side dominates, or numerous tactics changes as different players cast their opinion.
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