Ep. 258 GM Mauricio Flores

About this episode

Dr. Kevin Scull interviews GM Mauricio Flores about his journey in chess and offers valuable improvement tips.

This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with GM Mauricio Flores. We had a great conversation about his journey and adult improvement. We discussed the difference between prodigies and adults, useful resources, and many tips for improvement. GM Flores talked about his new tool ChessmindAI. Of course, we covered his amazing book Chess Structures, which most of you already own. We discussed his claim that study is perhaps more important than playing. Overall, there was a lot of great chess improvement advice! https://chessmind.ai/ Chess Structures Chessiverse Code: DrSCULL20 Check out my new Substack: https://substack.com/@drscull My Chessable Course! https://www.chessable.com/chess-journeys-tactics-workbook-turning-knowledge-into-skill/course/268850/ Chessnut Link/Code: Code - KEVINSCULL https://www.chessnutech.com?sca_ref=7643464.HueBIKWTYE Get 20% off GM Noël Studer's courses with Coupon chessjourneys20 The Simplified Chess Improvement System: https://courses.nextlevelchess.blog/courses/simplified-chess-improvement-system?ref=04f5d8 My Road to 2200 Youtube series: https://youtu.be/BzKYDt5oBU8 Be sure to check out the Chess Journeys Merch Store! You can support the show and look…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Kevin Scull

Guest: GM Mauricio Flores

Topics covered

• adult improvement
• chess resources
• chess tips
• chess tools
• chess books

Keywords

• chess improvement
• adult chess
• chess resources
• ChessmindAI
• Chess Structures

Sponsors

Chessnut, GM Noël Studer

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chessable, Chessnut, Substack, Twitch, Chessiverse

Products: ChessmindAI

Books & works: Chess Structures

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