Updates

Mastering Time in Chess is finally out on Chessable! It's a follow-up to Sensei Kraai's first course It’s About Time. In both courses, Kraai uses his experience of reviewing thousands of Dojo games in the weekly graduation shows. Dojoer games are featured in both courses! This second course is aimed at players between 1000 and 1600 Dojo rating (1250-1850 chess.com) and trains the most important skill for these cohorts to master: how to use the free tempi your opponents give you.

Also available on Chessable is 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know, presented by IM Kostya. Based on the book from New in Chess, the course is recommended for players rated 1400-2000 OTB.

Badges! Getting your rating up is not the only achievement in chess. You can also earn ChessDojo badges for completing Polgar mates, annotating games, graduating and more.

How to Analyze Your Games – A ChessDojo Guide is finally coming out on Kindle and the ChessDojo store! Keep an eye out for it's release in the coming days.

The Dojo had a few famous guests on stream recently. We were joined by 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov while covering the 5th annual KCF University Cup! We were also joined byFabiano Caruana in our SoCal Fire Relief stream!

Patreon and DojoTalks - The Dojo is trying to be more consistent with our podcast, but we need your help! Head over to our Patreon where you can get episodes early, vote on coming topics, suggest topics and discuss the pod on our private Discord.

Teams - Are you part of a scholastic or European club team? Let us know! We would like to bring your teammates to the Dojo and see you with them on a customized scoreboard. We believe the Dojo is the place for teams to track their progress, be competitive with one another and challenge other teams.

Achievements

The KlutchEZ played in the Music City Open (Feb. 21-23), their third tournament, competing in the U1800 section as a 1297-rated player. As the lowest-rated participant, they received a bye in Round 1. In the next four rounds, they scored 3/4, finishing tied for 2nd with 4/5 points and winning $500. Their performance earned them 261 rating points, raising their rating from 1297 to 1558.

shatterednirvana beat their first titled player ever! Check out the game here.

NoseKnowsAll beat a 15 year old NM to cross 2000 USCF. And on top of that, he's the proud father of a new baby girl!

DoesHoodRatStuff rebounded from a low classical rating in December by dedicating time to improving their chess. This month, they tied for 1st in the Dojo U1900 Open Classical Tournament and gained over 150 Lichess classical Elo. They scored 9.5/11 in classical tournament games over the past month.

AmbushRakshasa won his 25th USCF rated classical game, and set a new Elo best of 1126, raising his OTB rating 850 points over the course of those 25 wins!

The Dojo has collectively achieved:

177,568 rating points gained
81,771 training hours logged
69,201 Dojo points earned
2,561 graduations

Keep up the great work!

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