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Hello fellow Pawn Pushers,
I am relocating this blog to the Blogger service. Chess.com has served me well, but I have decided to take things in a another direction, and wanted more control over my layout.
At the new blog, Science on the Squares,... | Read More
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Recently, I took part in a thematic tournament here at chess.com where everygame started with the Grivas Sicilian. For the uninitiated, the Grivas Sicilian starts with the moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6, leading to the following posi... | Read More
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Last night, I attended the Bayshore Chess Club, located at the Bayshore-Brightwaters Public Library. The library is small but very elegant, and the club itself is a relax environment with some good players and nice people. The free coffee and prox... | Read More
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It's been a long while since my last blog post; this is result of both being busy with work and other obligations, as well as a desire not to broadcast over the web my tournament games in advance of the 2012 Manhattan Open.
I played in both the L... | Read More
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Recently, I played a game against marecek7791, who ended up losing due to account closure. It started as an interesting game, going down a main line of the Sveshnikov Sicilian, which I have been trying to learn.
The game started thus as 1.e4 c5 2... | Read More
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Here is the game I played in the 5th and final round of the LICC May Open. I had a clearly winning position out of the opening, but somehow ran into a poor endgame. I think I was on autopilot as the game progressed and failed to sense the danger o... | Read More
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(For anybody that reads my posts regularly, I apologize for the delay in the updates. I have been quite busy lately.)
The LICC May Open was an interesting tournament for me; It started with some confusion, as I took a bye in the first round b... | Read More
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Below is the game I played in the 5th and final round of the LICC March Open. Up to this point, it was a pretty good tournament for me, with one win, one draw, one loss, and one win coming in the form of a bye. I stood with 2.5 points, with the po... | Read More
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It looks like my luck ran out. I played a tough game against an opponent that previously beat me (in the last tournament). Although I wasn't positionally dominated like I was in my first encounter with him, I still lost.
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The lucky streak continues, as I win in convincing fashion against my opponent in the third round. This match is featured in a FiOS1 News pieces (I'll link to the video in the comments eventually).
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