TheDestructivePawn's Blog

• Bishops vs Knights

  Here's a nice chess essay I wrote...   “I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position,” said Marcel Duchamp, a French artist, who... | Read More

  • TheDestructivePawn
  • | Jan 16, 2012
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• EDITED: Defense vs. the Fried Liver Attack

  If you haven't read the blog before this... read it now at http://blog.chess.com/TheDestructivePawn/really-a-defense-vs-the-fried-liver This is the updated version of the Fried Liver Attack! Post your comments... Thanks! | Read More

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  • | Apr 4, 2011
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• Really? A defense vs. the Fried Liver?

  Yes, I know... the title or the image must have attracted you here. So getting to the point, I was watching a tournament game last Saturday when I found an ambitious amateur playing the Fried Liver Attack. Now normally you play d5 as a defense to ... | Read More

  • TheDestructivePawn
  • | Apr 4, 2011
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• Longest Game without captures!

  Hello everyone! I am delighted that I broke a chess record along with my awesome friend, smiley15. He and I broke the chess record for longest game without ANY CAPTURES! Plus a checkmate.... .  Here were the rules we had to follow in order to b... | Read More

  • TheDestructivePawn
  • | Jan 20, 2011
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• Another Great Chess Website...

  Hi! It's TDP. I realized that many more chess websites are popping up. So many I can't even keep track of (I'm on chessgames.com, thechesswebsite.com, theredpawn.com, much more), but I would like to acknowledge one great chess site, chessthegame... | Read More

  • TheDestructivePawn
  • | Jan 18, 2011
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• My thoughts on chess...

  This is my blog voicing all my thoughts on chess. If you are interested, you can read my entire blog. Usually, I write only blogs discussing openings. My previous blogs are shown here: http://blog.chess.com/TheDestructivePawn/the-english-openin... | Read More

  • TheDestructivePawn
  • | Dec 3, 2010
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• The English Opening

    You're at a tournament and you sit down to play someone. First move is c4! What do you do? After all time you spent studying 1.d4 and 1.e4, you encounter c4. What matters the most is that you hardly or never even studied c4. As you know, C-4 ... | Read More

  • TheDestructivePawn
  • | Nov 27, 2010
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• Dangerous Max Lange Attack and Fried Liver Combined!!

      While playing in an online tournament, I was utterly beaten up by an attack known as the Max Lange. What caused this? As you explore this sequence of moves, you will see that the Max Lange is full of traps for the unaware.  The Max Lange... | Read More

  • TheDestructivePawn
  • | Nov 13, 2010
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