About

A blundercheck is a quick mental list to consider before making a move in chess.

It’s the make or break between noobs and strong amateurs.

Avoiding failure is 80% of chess mastery. The other 20% is a messy combo of luck, memorization, and obsessive-competitive drive.

This project / newsletter is a wide-ranging search for similar ideas. It was hard to name it. The name needed to jive with the battery of interrelated things I write about: safety, technology, protocol theory, competition, chess, fitness, forestry.

Took me a couple months and cost me the patience of my friends and family, but I finally settled on Blundercheck.

Looking for a place to start? Check out the Blundercheck Reading Guide

Subscribers can expect about one email a week, depending on the chaos level of my main gig managing the Summer of Protocols research program.

You can find more good writing at Protocolized, of which I’m an editor.

More about me, Timber (it’s my real name) → https://linktr.ee/timberss