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This time I present two Chess960 games because one of them is only 2 moves long! The first game is 14 moves and ends with a nice mating tactic. During the game, I could not convince myself to play the stunning 12. Ba6! But in analysis, it appears ... | Read More
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A Chess960 game where extra central space leads to a kingside attack ending in two sacrificed pieces and checkmate.
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A standard chess game is rare for me these days, but I'm involved in an interminable tournament, so I can't escape playing a few. Here is one where I faced the Dutch Defense. The game had the potential to be very double edged as black had a lot of... | Read More
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In this game I played poorly from the opening, continued to make mistakes and my opponent continued to find very good moves to punish me. It's a simple recipe for getting crushed.
Hopefully games like this will teach me something about how to han... | Read More
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Poor opening play characterizes my current Chess960 games. I'd like to chalk it up to being new at the variant, but it's really a matter of not paying attention. In this game I hang a pawn on move 2. I was able to fight back later in the game, avo... | Read More
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Some starting positions in Chess960 include "Hidden Gems". The game I show here features a bishop coming out of the corner to snatch up a pawn and later for a discovered attack. Another fun moment in this game are the castling moves. Just as the k... | Read More
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Continuing my plunge into Chess 960 I'll show a game where I didn't play very well. During the opening I failed to recognize that I created a weakness in my position and my development choices gave me a difficult time defending it. Only by some ... | Read More
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I've decided to gives some games of Chess960 a shot and make some observations on this variant. I'll show in this post one of my first games that wasn't a particularly fierce battle. One of the points to be made is that the usual chess principles ... | Read More
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The accelerated move order for the Sicilian Dragon is supposed to prevent white from playing a typical "Yugoslav" type attack with queenside castling and a kingside pawn storm. This doesn't mean white won't sometimes try it! As a player of the acc... | Read More
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I couldn't let this juicy position slip by un-recorded. This comes from a recent bullet game (1 minute, no increment). Black has compensation for being down a pawn, but would like to put his activity to use before white finds any king safety or co... | Read More