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    • Fun times in the exchange French

      A game played today against a higher rated opponent... EDIT: it's supposed to be Autumn not Spring :/ Sleepy mistake | Read More

    • Accused of Cheating in Online Chess

      So in a recent tournament game I was accused of cheating and my opponent resigned after 19 moves, just when I started cooking up a dangerous attack. He also resigned in our other game without playing a move. In my opinion the game was just theory... | Read More

    • Inter-Regional Final

      So we played Sydney Boys A and won 4-0 :DI played a 700+ guy on board 4:   | Read More

    • Everyday I'm Shufflin'... my rooks

      Two games played aeons ago. Game 1: Against someone I previously lost to in the after school comp. Game 2: A 600-ish guy who said the that fact I'm 800 was bs. He also looked very confident, which he had the right to do because I carelessly dro... | Read More

    • Titled Scalp

      I recently played an online tournament game against IM Thomas Rendle (Trendle), and won after he made a blunder late in the game. This is now my second titled scalp after beating an NM before but I can't dig that game out right now... Analysis by ... | Read More

    • Solid 500

      Semi's against Knox, lost 2.5 - 1.5 Boards 1 and 2 lost, 3 drew and I won. | Read More

    • An Interesting Mate

      I take back what I've said, my connection's now fine again, and I recently played a live game which looks quite similar to a familiar opening trap... | Read More

    • Quitting live

      The title says it all. I'm now quitting live chess because my connection always makes me lose or have to refresh the page every 10 seconds to check if my opponent's made a move yet. In bullet I've lose 100+ points by outplaying most opponents and ... | Read More

    • Tournament summary

      Came equal first in a fun tournament today featuring 150 ish players :DHad to beat the guy who was owning the tournament in the last round as well but pretty much everyone else I played (bar my only loss) was rated more than 200 below me... Round... | Read More

    • Too easy

      Today was the last round of the interschools comp and my team's won our division. In this game I finished him within 10 minutes. | Read More