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I wrote a new lesson: “Learning from professional games (1)”. This is based on first game from the current Meijin title in Japan. This is not the first time I write something based on what I learn from replaying professional games – actually several of the professional titles I followed and wrote about contain such things – but I thought about writing separate articles instead of embedding the lessons within the actual tournament page. For people who will read this a few months from now, following the tournament pages might not be attractive anymore (after all, there are a lot of tournaments, and mostly the new ones are followed). Also, another news related to this latest lesson: I’m experimenting with adding Javascript to my pages. If you have Javascript enabled in your internet browser (most of the people do, especially those who use Gmail, Google maps, etc) the article will seem very short when you load (or reload) the page, and you’ll see a link at the bottom of the page along the lines of “Click here for the solution” – click there and the article will expand itself. (If you don’t have Javascript enabled, you’ll see all the article at once, same as before). This is in order to avoid spoiling the problems by unintentionally showing the solution diagrams to those of my readers who like to really think hard about the problems before reading the solutions. Which I hope most of my readers do Let me know if this is a good idea or not – if it is annoying to most of you I’ll just think of something else.