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Nick Vasquez

Oct 12, 2026

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17:26
How the heck do you take care of, take
17:29
advantage of somebody's mistake is a skill.
17:31
And it's not something that people kind of go over unless they understand the concepts.
17:39
I think the first couple of skills for beginners, you've got to be able to visualize.
17:42
And then when I wrote the second piece that you mentioned, because I wrote two pieces on how to become a master.
17:51
It was a review of a book by Andy Soltis, you know, yeah, what it takes to become a chess master.
17:56
So the first one is I'm, I'm underwhelmed by the impact of just doing tactics, tactics, tactics.

14 MINS LATER

speaker_0HOST
31:38
And then you reached a plateau or something, or you stopped simply working on conceptualization? Can you tell us a bit about that? Yeah,

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