A Tale of Two Norwegians

Ealing Haaland is powering Norway to the FIFA World Cup but playing alongside Magnus Carlsen is proving troublesome

Nov 1, 2025 • Benjamin Portheault

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October 2025

Winning Deep

Handling winning is equally important as handling losing

Oct 19, 2025 • Benjamin Portheault

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September 2025

Lecturing Birds on Flying

Personal news and musings on coaching and performance

Sep 3, 2025 • Benjamin Portheault

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April 2025

You are not your rating

Stop treating yourself only as improvement project

Apr 2, 2025 • Benjamin Portheault

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February 2025

The War on Attention

I’m done consuming chess content

Feb 18, 2025 • Benjamin Portheault

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Dr Can's Chess Clinic podcast appearance

We had a great, free flowing conversation on Dr Can Kabadayi's podcast.

Feb 9, 2025 • Benjamin Portheault

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November 2024

10,000 hours? Understanding the conditions for expert learning

An introduction to key ideas about the expert learning process

Nov 30, 2024 • Benjamin Portheault

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September 2024

How to Focus

From just-sitting to just-chess, a natural relaxed focus technique.

Sep 22, 2024 • Benjamin Portheault

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July 2024

This Substack as a Knowledge Base

Classification of all my previous articles by subject

Jul 4, 2024 • Benjamin Portheault

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June 2024

Losing at chess: an unpacking

Recognising and handling the biological, psychological and social factors contributing to the pain of losing.

Jun 15, 2024 • Benjamin Portheault

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May 2024

Discipline

An operating system to help you align actions and intent: the ICED framework

May 21, 2024 • Benjamin Portheault

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Guest Interview #3: Casey Thomas, Esports Performance Nutrition Specialist

How to think about nutrition and leverage it for chess performance

May 12, 2024 • Benjamin Portheault

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