Jack Puccini

Chess

I'm a FIDE Master based in Melbourne, Australia. I've been playing chess since I was seven, and teaching it for the last twelve years — working with players from complete beginners through to advanced.

One aspect of chess I find especially interesting is what it reveals about how we make decisions. The skills that make someone strong at chess — searching a space of possibilities, generating candidate ideas, having strong intuition, exercising judgment under uncertainty — appear to map onto how we reason, learn, and train in many domains. I enjoy exploring that idea, along with related questions like how we evaluate positions and make practical decisions over the board — things I'd like to dig into more in the future.

Watch me play

A blitz game of mine from the Bangkok Open in Thailand.

Find me

Lichess@DailyInsanityChess.com@jack_pucciniFIDEView FIDE profileYouTube@fmjackpuccini

I'm not currently taking on new students, but if you'd like to get in touch, feel free to email me at jackpuccinichess@gmail.com or reach out through any of my profiles above.

Writing

My chess projects are parked for the moment, but there's plenty more I want to write about here. In the meantime, you can read some of my essays below, or over on my Lichess blog.

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