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SirIvanhoe's Blog

Mostly a game cache for games featured on my blog: The Pied Chessman.


    • Kentucky Kings 2013

      Davis Whaley scored a perfect 3.0 to win this year's Kentucky Kings Tournament. | Read More

      • SirIvanhoe
      • | Apr 7, 2013
      • | 91 views
      • | 2 comments
    • Kings Qualifier - Louisville

      Ryan Velez defeated Daniel Brennan in the final match of the Louisville Chess Club championships to claim that club's title and a spot at the Kentucky Kings tournament. | Read More

      • SirIvanhoe
      • | Apr 4, 2013
      • | 90 views
      • | 2 comments
    • Kings Qualifier - Highland Park

      This is the final match game for the Highland club championship to determine the qualifier for the Kentucky Kings 2013 tournament.   | Read More

      • SirIvanhoe
      • | Apr 2, 2013
      • | 86 views
      • | 0 comments
    • Solitaire Chess

      A sometimes pastime of mine is to collect scores (in PGN or CBH databases) of the games from great old books. I've been especially interested in collecting games from the Solitaire Chess idea of Horowitz (and later Pandolfini) in their books and... | Read More

      • SirIvanhoe
      • | Mar 26, 2013
      • | 108 views
      • | 2 comments
    • Slow Analysis - vaiuuii v Chesspeacemaker

      Watch for a new feature from the Slow Chess League at the Dan Heisman Learning Center group. We'll be offering regular posts highlighting recent games from our Slow Chess events with analysis and commentary from members of our group. . What's slow... | Read More

      • SirIvanhoe
      • | Dec 4, 2012
      • | 300 views
      • | 2 comments
    • My Lesson With Dan Heisman

      What a thrill! I've long been a fan of Dan Heisman. That's why I was the first to sign up (after the founder Eternal_Patzer) when the Dan Heisman Learning Center group was formed! I have several of his books and also read his Novice Nooks. I watch... | Read More

      • SirIvanhoe
      • | Oct 21, 2012
      • | 766 views
      • | 5 comments
    • Kentucky Kings Tournament - May 2112

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      • SirIvanhoe
      • | Jul 26, 2012
      • | 320 views
      • | 4 comments
    • Kentucky Closed 2012

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      • SirIvanhoe
      • | Jul 16, 2012
      • | 264 views
      • | 0 comments
    • Checkmate by Bobby Fischer

      Bobby Fischer wrote a column called Checkmate for the magazine Boy's Life beginning in December 1966. Below is the chess problem which he offered in that first column.             http://piedchessman.blogspot.com/ | Read More

      • SirIvanhoe
      • | Jan 3, 2012
      • | 773 views
      • | 2 comments
    • Geza Maroczy vs Milan Vidmar

      Today's puzzle on Chessgames.com came from this interesting game between Geza Maroczy and Milan Vidmar. A straightforward Italian Game opening is answered with a Two Knights Defense and Morphy's push with d4 leads to the standard starting position... | Read More

      • SirIvanhoe
      • | Oct 26, 2011
      • | 325 views
      • | 1 comment