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This is a great story. Congrats! Good inspiration. I worked fairly consistently on chess this year and saw essentially no rating growth - so good timing for reading this post :)

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Mar 27Liked by Martin B. Justesen

Thanks so much for sharing your journey. You mentioned that you started using Chessable. How useful did you find it? I noticed that you are using Keep it Simple 1.e4. How useful was the course? Many thanks, Mark

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Feb 19Liked by Martin B. Justesen

The long haul journey. Shows if you put in the work things will improve. Wonderful to see. Congratulations. I should take a look at my long term history and do a similar write up for the chess community for those who need the inspiration.

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Feb 8Liked by Martin B. Justesen

This is really inspiring. Thank you for sharing. This goes to show that Chess is a long term investment. If you want to be good, one must be in it for the long haul.

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Mar 2, 2023Liked by Martin B. Justesen

A good read thank you

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Jul 28, 2022·edited Jul 28, 2022Liked by Martin B. Justesen

Martin, Hi! Thanks for another excellent content. I’ve a question: I’m a real beginner and I’m just playing longer/correspondence games right now (5-10 days). I don’t have much time for chess, and I think lower time control matches (like blitz or bullet) will not help me improving in tactics/ calculation.

Do you think that longer games (online) could help beginners to get experience / train or I should try some “shorter” games too? Thanks!

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Jul 26, 2022·edited Jul 26, 2022Liked by Martin B. Justesen

Great newsletter! Thanks for the year-by-year analysis.

One question came to mind. I have chess.com and lichess accounts, but I essentially never play on lichess. What drives you to play on one platform or the other?

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Martin B. Justesen

Could you post the moves of that last game? Would like to look at it lichess Analyser. ty

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Thank you! And yes, rating growth comes at strange times and not always when you expect it. And good luck with your substack :)

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