Happy New Year 2013!

Published: Tue, 01/01/13

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Best Wishes for 2013!

Happy New Year, -- Hope that you win a lot of games in 2013, and have lots of success on your journey of chess improvement!

Now is a good time to reflect on what your goals are for chess, and set some goals for 2013. Maybe there is a big tournament that you always wanted to play in. Perhaps there is a rating level you want to achieve, or an opponent that you have always wanted to beat. Make 2013 the year that your chess dreams become a reality!

Colorado Chess Informant Magazine

Instead of a chess tactic, I wanted to let you know that the new January 2013 issue of the Colorado Chess Informant magazine is out, and available for free online.

You can access it here: http://www.coloradochess.com/informant/January%202013.pdf

The magazine is 52 pages long in PDF format. Fred Spell, the editor, did a great job. The Colorado Chess Community is really fortunate to have Fred, who does a super job.

My "Tactics Time" column appears on page 25.

Grandmaster Alex Fishbein wrote a review of "Tactics Time 1001", the new book by myself and Anthea Carson, which was really amazing.

Chris Peterson wrote a really good article with some ideas on how to improve chess tournaments.

Jeff Baffo has some entertaining game annotations.

Brad Lundstrom wrote a beautiful tribute to Life Master Brian Wall, which is one of the best articles I have ever seen.

Joe Fromme wrote a great article about his trip to Iceland to pay tribute to Bobby Fischer, which I also really enjoyed.

I think you will enjoy the issue.

Have a great 2013!

Your Friend,

Tim Brennan

tim@tacticstime.com